On 10/31/2017 02:53 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 27/10/17 22:03, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> On 10/25/2017 12:48 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> [...snip...]
>> So poop.  Now I get to figure out why my scanner takes EIGHT
>> scans every time I ask for one.  xscan is cumbersome to
>> use at its best.  I may switch to Simple Scan for most of
>> everything.  I get tired of having to fix stuff all the
>> time, but it is my job, so I should quit bitching and
>> be glad I have a job ...
> 
> Generally, I use simple-scan for most of my scans.  If I want really
> high quality scans where I want to manipulate the scan in gimp or
> similar, then I use xsane.
> 
> Depending on the quality settings in XSane, it might do several scans.
> And each time you zoom in/out and refresh the preview it will most
> commonly also do a re-scan.  So I'd have a closer look at the DPI
> settings and quality settings.
> 
> But generally, simple-scan does, in my experience, a very decent job -
> despite lots of knobs, whistles and bells are hidden or simply not
> available.  The most annoying thing for me is that it too often wants to
> save the scan as JPEG instead of PDF by default (but not always).  And
> that cropping could be set to a default value as well, but setting that
> before the first scan will most commonly be kept for the following scans.
> 
> 

I will have a shot at it Thursday.  Thank you for the feed back!