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midsail · Blue Pill Joined: Feb 06, 2006 Posts: 2

Hello everyone, just started use Neooffice today and it is great. Learning curve not to bad at all. My question is about

INSERT/GRAPHICS/SCAN/ source or request. Does this option means I can scan some graphics into my school notes or projects?, also I do I do this ?.

I have aepson perfection 1660. Any help would be great, Thanks.

Glenner · Oracle Joined: Feb 03, 2004 Posts: 241 Location: Scotland

Hi Midsail, I have had a look at this several times over the last three years. In short, I did not get it to work and it is not very high on my list of priorities. But, I have seen that Epson have recently released an update (www.epsom.com) of their scanning software for OSX 10.4 (there are two packages to be installed) and I read somewhere that they claim it will make any application work with their scanner. As far as I remember, installing their software disables Apple's Image Capture for the scanner. May be you want to try this out and get back to us with your results?

Martin

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

The built-in "Scan" command only works if SANE is installed on your Mac. SANE is a UNIX framework to support scanners, sort of like Apple's Image Capture.

I don't have a SANE compatible scanner, so I've never been able to even attempt to figure out all the configuration required...I do know that Eric Hoch got it to work with his scanner in OOo 1.1.x, so it *should* work.

There are Mac packages of SANE available here, but you do need to see if your scanner is supported (if there is a SANE "backend" for it).

Smokey

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

To follow on to Smokey's posting, scanning files driectly into NeoOffice may be more hassle than it is worth. So, a simpler way may be to use the scanner's software to create an image file in *.jpg or *.png format and then insert that file into NeoOffice. It is a two step process, but it is more likely to work than NeoOffice's scan menu item.

Patrick

midsail · Blue Pill Joined: Feb 06, 2006 Posts: 2

Hello everyone,thanks for the infor, could make SANE work. pluby was correct in his reply. I guess it will be a two part process.Thanks

rhb · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject:

My 3 most used software packages are Graphic Converter, NeoOffice and Vuescan (rather than the Epson Scan software).
I have therefore got used to scanning to the desktop and then inserting as needed.
When scanning several items I think it is far quicker than trying to scan straight into any app.