Re: problems with snapscan and scanimage

Warren Early (earlyw@sphinx-group.com)
Thu, 14 May 1998 08:36:12 -0700 (PDT)

I agree also. After supporting commercial scanning software for a year
(all that my sanity would stand for) I can tell you from my limited
experience that setting a default scan area smaller than the total
possible area would be a support nightmare. The only glimmer of hope is
that the average Unix user is *much* smarter than the average Windows user
and would figure it out on their own.

On Thu, 14 May 1998, Daniel Stephens wrote:

> > I don't know how others feel about this, but in my opinion it is best
> > to default to scan the _entire_ scan surface by default. The
> > experiences with the Microtek and SnapScan backend seem to indicate
> > that anything else simply confuses the (naive) user.
>
> I would be inclined to throw in my $0.02 and stand behind David's opinion,
> by default it should scan what can be scanned.. Ideally the user interface to
> the scanner software should make it very straightforward to crop the
> scanning area if so desired.
>
> Daniel.
>
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