Xsane cannot change scanning area in preview

[Wilf Hull]

Mint 8 .- When scanning to preview you cannot change the area to be scanned as in previous versions of Mint. This is OK in the live cd of Ubuntu 9.10

[Wilf Hull (fornhamfred)]

Also when scanning the system saves two files, one the file as requested and a second a raw.pnm file. This occurs with whichever file extension that is chosen.

[bigal50 (bigal50)]

I have the same problem with Mint 8 32 bit. It works fine using the same scanner when plugged into my Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. I have also noticed that the filename does not increment, don't know if this is related or a different bug.

I tried copying the .sane/xsane from the working machine to the Mint 8 and it didn't fix the problem

[bigal50 (bigal50)]

I'm wrong the counter does increment, you need to seed it by putting a number at the end of the file name like out000.jpg then it works as designed.

[dazzlin (dazzlindonna)]

Same problem here with Mint 8 32 bit. The dashed line cannot be moved to change the scan area.

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

Looks like an upgrade regression in Ubuntu.

[Marc Quinton (mquinton)]

same bug has been fixed with a patch here : #370818 ; you could try to fix it and tell us if it's OK.

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xsane/+bug/370818/comments/26