UMAX Astra 1220U scanner support stopped working
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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simple-scan (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
trying to scan a page using SimpleScan and an old UMAX Astra 1220U scanner fails. There is a row size problem that causes SimpleScan to think that there are 3 more pixels per row than there really are, causing an intense shear (what are supposed to be vertical lines now have a slope of 1/3). There is also a colour offset problem.
I am currently reporting about 11.10 (noncustomised). It used to work some years ago in Ubuntu (2008 approx) using SANE from inside GIMP. To get my sheet scanned today, I had someone do it for me from MacOS 9 (!!!) because I don't have Ubuntu 2008 anymore.
I think that there was also another version of Ubuntu in the meantime that made it fail in a totally different manner, but I don't have details and never reported it. This is just to say to be careful when going through previous versions of the code...
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