[ale] Scanning under Linux

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Nov 26 14:13:28 EST 2003


I'm trying to get it all to work right.  The nice part about the UMAX
software for winbloze was that it had a copy utility that was smart
tweaked to be a copier.  

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 13:45, Paul Manno wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> I (and my wife) use an old Umax 1200S on a Linux box all the time for both 
> scanning and creating various format files including PDFs.  It *is* nice 
> to be able to scan, play internet radio, be a print and file server and 
> correctly burn a CD all at the same time.
> 
> Haven't tried to write the PDF directly from Gimp though it should work 
> fine.  Instead, I create a PostScript file and just use the ps2pdf 
> converters.  I have considered setting up a "printer" queue to handle the 
> conversion but never got around to doing that.
> 
> Hope the data is helpful.
> 
> -- Paul
> 
> On 26 Nov 2003, Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
> > Amazing.  I got my old Astra 1220P working.  It is nice to be
> > able to scan and work on the computer at the same time.  Normally
> > I used this scanner to scan documents in and convert them to PDF.  Is
> > anyone doing that under Linux?
> > 
> > 
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