* Moby [11-02-09 13:44]:

I just noticed that xsane on my OSS 11.1 machine does not give me the option to save as TIFF. I checked for libtiff and saw that I have libtiff3 installed and configured. Is there something beyond that that is needed to be able to save scanned images in TIFF format when using xsane?

Did you select or designate the file type on the main window? /home/<user>/out.pnm (default) /home/<user>/out.tif[f] or change "Tyle" from "by ext" to "TIFF" xsane-0.997-6.9.x86_64 on 11.2r2 -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Moby [11-02-09 15:01]:

I launch the GUI. I do not see "tiff" as an option under "Type". If I choose "by ext" and name the file with a .tiff, I get the following error: "Unsupported 8-bit output format: tiff"

what version of xsane and arch and where did you get it? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Moby [11-02-09 17:26]:

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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what version of xsane and arch and where did you get it?

xsane-0.996-0.pm.1.i586.rpm from packman.

I would ask why as later versions are available in the openSUSE build service. AND the packman package may have been build w/o tiff support. It *is* there in the openSUSE buildservice package that I am using. xsane-0.997-6.9.x86_64 -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Moby [11-02-09 23:47]:

Sorry for my ignorance, is there a separate repo I need to add for the openSUSE buildservice? When I go to webpin and look for xsane, the only place where I see 0.997 is in the GNOME factory repo, and I am afraid to add that one since I have been burned in the past by doing updates from there.

Thanks again for your help btw.

http://software.opensuse.org/search or 00:08 wahoo:~/.fluxbox > webpin -d 11.1 xsane 7 results (3 packages) found for "xsane" in openSUSE_111 * xsane: An X Frontend for SANE - 0.996 [packman] - 0.995 [suse-oss] - 0.997 [GNOME:/Factory] * xsane-debuginfo: Debug information for package xsane - 0.996 [packman] - 0.997 [GNOME:/Factory] * xsane-debugsource: Debug sources for package xsane - 0.996 [packman] - 0.997 [GNOME:/Factory] believe if I were in your shoes and was shy of "Factory" I would install the default from suse-oss, 0.995, and see if it solved my problems. You can always go back. or just download the single rpm from GNOME:/Factory and install it from the cl: rpm -i --oldpackage /<file>/<location>/xsane-0.995....rpm -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Moby [11-02-09 23:47]:

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Sorry for my ignorance, is there a separate repo I need to add for the openSUSE buildservice? When I go to webpin and look for xsane, the only place where I see 0.997 is in the GNOME factory repo, and I am afraid to add that one since I have been burned in the past by doing updates from there.

Thanks again for your help btw.

http://software.opensuse.org/search

or

00:08 wahoo:~/.fluxbox > webpin -d 11.1 xsane 7 results (3 packages) found for "xsane" in openSUSE_111 * xsane: An X Frontend for SANE - 0.996 [packman] - 0.995 [suse-oss] - 0.997 [GNOME:/Factory] * xsane-debuginfo: Debug information for package xsane - 0.996 [packman] - 0.997 [GNOME:/Factory] * xsane-debugsource: Debug sources for package xsane - 0.996 [packman] - 0.997 [GNOME:/Factory]

believe if I were in your shoes and was shy of "Factory" I would install the default from suse-oss, 0.995, and see if it solved my problems. You can always go back.

or just download the single rpm from GNOME:/Factory and install it from the cl: rpm -i --oldpackage /<file>/<location>/xsane-0.995....rpm

Thanks Patrick. I could not find a way to lock down a package to a specific repo in either smart or zypper. I download the src RPM for xsane from Packman and built it myself, and it did end up with TIFF support. I think I will go with that route for now. This way my update scripts will function the way they do now, and at worst I will have to re-make xsane from src rpm if and when Packman updates it without TIFF support again. Thanks again for your help, -- --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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xsane-0.996-0.pm.1.i586.rpm from packman.

packman's xsane is not including tiff support for long time. Try official openSUSE version.

I'm curious; do you know why?

I have no any idea. I used the official SUSE xsane and after an update to packman's version (it was newer) the save as tiff option was gone. Then I reverted to SUSE's and it came back. Since then I haven't tried packman's version. According to this thread it seems that it still does not have tiff support. I don't know the reason; the packager should be asked. Cheers, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org