Hello Mr. Rossi,

a "double-thumbs-up" for you and your nice scanning tool iCopy !
All things you fixed now work like a charm, so I re-installed iCopy on another machine (the one with the Canon LiDE 100 scanner and a Samsung b/w laser printer) and also tested the new "optimized" error message by unplugging the scanner for a moment. You definately did a great job tracking all bugs down and there seems just one final small issue, as far as I noticed: As I am German, I selected this language in the settings dialog, but unfortunately this settings seems not to get saved as the interface started in English again the next time. Taking a controlling look at the language setting states the right selection (German (Germany)), but even re-selecting this option again didn't bring up the German interface texts (which worked in the 1.44 version before you begun fixes the issues I mentioned).
If you can confirm this problem, please also try to enlarge the text area in front of the "Paper Size" combobox as the German translation for this reads "Papiergröße" and does not fit the small area in front of the combobox (which is just a cosmetic issue that doesn't affect functionality). An equal GUI-design related problem is the button "Reset image settings" (two lines of text which nicely fit into the button) in the settings dialog box which reads "Bild-Einstellungen zurücksetzen" in German, resuling in three lines of text within the button causing some clipping of the first and last line.

With these last small problems fixed, your application will turn into a rock-solid and highly user-friendly scanning and copying tool - for which you could definately charge a small fee (e.g. 5 Euro)
Well, I for myself will make a donation and hope that you will still give iCopy away for free although I stated that you *could* try to sell it. Freeware is something I am always willing to support in any way as guys like *you* are the kind of programmers that really deserve it !

Sincerely yours


Andreas Hüller

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Matteo Rossi 
  To: <email address hidden> 
  Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 5:20 PM
  Subject: [Bug 377317] Re: Scanning without preview results in only a quarterof the scanning area being scanned


  Hello,

  again, I really appreciate your help and your feedbacks, you are really
  a very precious help for me. Thanks to you I solved several problems I
  wasn't aware of.

  Here I am with another patch that should fix the settings problem. Please make sure you erase the content of iCopy directory before extracting this new patch.
  I also modified the warning message that appears when there isn't any scanner connected. Now it is just an information window in place of a warning.

  ** Attachment added: "icopy.rar"
     http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27300824/icopy.rar

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  Scanning without preview results in only a quarter of the scanning area being scanned
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377317
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  Status in iCopy - Simple Photocopier: Fix Committed

  Bug description:
  OS used: Windows XP SP2 / Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1 (three different machines, no virtualization)
  iCopy Version: 1.4.4
  Scanner: Canon CanoScan LiDE 100 / Canon CanoScan LiDE 600F / HP OfficeJet J4680 (All-in-one device)
  Printer: Canon iP4300 / HP OfficeJet J4680 (All-in-one device) / PDF Creator 0.9.6 (virtual PDF printer)

  I installed your great tool already on three machines, but unfortunately the "big copy button" seems not to work properly whenever I used it with the "Preview" option disabled.
  When I press the button with the Preview option disabled, only about a quarter of the scanning area gets scanned, but no error message is shown. Hence, the resulting print of the document is logically incomplete.
  As soon as I enable the preview (which results in an additional window being displayed prior to starting the scan process) everything works fine.

  Because all three machines use different OSes (XP SP2/3 or Vista SP1), scanners (HP or Canon) and printers (all-in-one and standalone), I doubt that this is just a driver or system configuration issue but a bug in the software.

  I hope you can reproduce the problem with a certain scanner-to-printer-configuration and will naturally provide any addition information, if needed.