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scan multipage document in doesn't save in PDF format

Asked by Dale Bowley

When using XSane to scan multiple pages into a single PDF document, it saves the pages into some sort of picture file, not into PDF. Or maybe there's something I'm not doing correctly.
I would also like to have the chance to enter a file name for the multipage document.

Using Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
HPLIP 3.10.2
XSane 0.996

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This question was originally filed as bug #543080.

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Dale Bowley (dale.bowley) said : 		#1

And the connected printer is an OfficeJet J4540 by usb. Wireless not an option with this printer.

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Dale Bowley (dale.bowley) said : 		#2

And I'm also looking for the ability to crop to a portion of the full scan. Maybe there's something that I'm missing about this too.

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Mark Purcell (msp) said : 		#3

Dale,

 xsane acts as a stand-alone program that saves acquired images in a suitable PNM format (PBM for black-and-white images, PGM for grayscale images, and PPM for color images) or converts the image to JPEG, PNG, PS or TIFF.

To save directly to a PDF document you should use the hp-scan utility:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/tech_docs/man_pages/scan.html

Mark

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Mark Purcell (msp) said : 		#4

Dale,

 xsane acts as a stand-alone program that saves acquired images in a suitable PNM format (PBM for black-and-white images, PGM for grayscale images, and PPM for color images) or converts the image to JPEG, PNG, PS or TIFF.

To save directly to a PDF document you should use the hp-scan utility:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/tech_docs/man_pages/scan.html

Mark

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