> Using HP Scanjet 5p, RedHat 4.2, distribution 2.0.30 kernel on
> PPRO/200.
Installed sane 0.63.
> -Was- using RH 4.0. At that time everything installed smoothly and
> worked perfectly as soon as I figured out /dev/sgb. :)
>
> -Now-, under 4.2, all pnmto??? utils fail with:
>
> pnmtotiff: bad magic number - not a ppm, pgm, or pbm file
Okee doke, found a clue. I see:
http://glacier.unl.edu/~samal/class/DIST/lectures/pgm.html
This info is pgm-specific but I guessed it couldn't be too far off
the mark of other p?? formats.
The first two lines of the file that scanimage produces seem to be
the x and y dimensions of the area scanned, usually looks like:
0.1
0.1
P6
# SANE data follows
60 60
255
normal-looking-data...
When I remove those two leading lines pnmto???? works perfectly.
Any ideas what I could be doing wrong to cause these x/y lines to
be inserted?
Or is scanimage creating some other file type that I should be using
other converters?
Have a :) day!
jim barchuk
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