[NTLUG:Discuss] xsane and pnm file format

[Alvin Goats]

In xsane 0.994, there's a button "Type" that you can set to the type of 
file to save to, which includes:

EXT (you pick the file type by extension)
JPEG
PDF
PNG
PNM
PostScript
Text
TIFF

Above this is a button next to a bull's eye symbol that lets you view 
(Viewer), save, copy (wants to send to a printer), multipage, fax and 
e-mail.

Multipage is good if you're scanning documents and PDF makes it nicer as 
you can create a multipage pdf as you scan.

Alvin



>  
> Howdy,
>   The other option is to have xsane save jpeg files to begin with.  I
> setup a linux scanner for the office at a company recently.  The default
> option was to save images as pbm, but I changed it to save as jpeg
> files.  It was a preference setting in xsane.  It was pretty obvious
> once you start looking, but I don't have that machine handy to tell you
> exactly where.
> Good luck,
> Ralph
>
> On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 09:51 -0600, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
>   
>> > "Allen Meyers" writes:
>> > - I recently discovered xsane and its super fast scanning ability as compared
>> > - to image scanning in XP with hp however the file recognition presents a
>> > - problem for windows user so is there a linux conversion program to satisfy
>> > - this need
>> > 
>> > Not entirely sure what you're asking for, but assuming you're
>> > asking for a way to convert from the pnm file that xsane creates
>> > to something that Windows might recognize, look at pnmtojpeg(1),
>> > part of the netpbm package.
>> > 
>>     
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