Re: Xsane: Slider scan resolution selection

From: Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 04:36:58 PST

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    Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
    >
    > On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 06:47:54PM -0500, genkin@canada.com wrote:
    > > I really preferred that resolution could be selected from a drop-down
    > > list in xsane 0.49, as opposed to a slider in 0.5x.
    > >
    > > I used to do many of my scans at 400, and then I could load the image
    > > in gimp, and print it in its original size. But right now the slider
    > > doesn't obey very well -- I can never get 400 out of it: only 399 or
    > > 403.
    > >
    > > It would be nice if this feature were configurable (whether thru a
    > > command line switch or thru a Preferences dialog). Or, perhaps,
    > > inculde a small box to enter the resolution manually?
    >
    > That's a very good idea... Maybe that's the reason Oliver built
    > this into xsane already :-)
    >
    > You probably lost your configuration when updating from 0.49 to
    > 0.5x. There is a setting that also gets stored between xsane
    > invocations: Go to Preferences and select "Show Resolution List"
    > This will then replace the slider with the list.

    Hmmm ... when I was playing with xscanimage, I found that although the
    backend set the resolution to be (in my case) 200-400 dpi in steps of
    100, the slider would freely choose any resolution. This is a bug,
    surely?

    Cheers,

    Ben. 

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