The VueScan Kiss-off

[Paul Lemmons]

I use "Simple Scan". As the name implies, it is simple but has all the
basics. Can scan multi-page documents into a multi-page PDF, single page
scan, rotation, cropping, and very forgiving when the automatic document
feeder jams.


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:22 PM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/28/2014 03:46 AM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>
>> I've been using VueScan as a scanning application for probably 5 years.
>>  It
>> is/was a good application and it supports a lot of scanners.
>>
>> But with Kubuntu 13.4 (and who knows what other distros of linux) it has a
>> "window" problem.  If you click on any action, such as PREVIEW or SCAN or
>> even
>> FILE--->Exit, the program fails to do ANYTHING.   It is only when you
>> switch
>> to a different desktop,  or window, or minimize the Vuescan window, that
>> any
>> action will take place.
>>
>> The program WILL work, but only if you fiddle and diddle with switching or
>> minimizing windows to give it a "kick".
>>
>> I've been working with Ed Hammrick  (Ed Hamrick <vuescan at gmail.com>) to
>> try to
>> solve these issues but in essence, he could care less.
>>
>> His recent statements:
>>
>> "Yes, I recommend you use a different scanning solution."
>>
>> "Yes, I'm probably going to stop supporting Linux in the next few weeks."
>>
>> "I get less than 1% of my revenues from Linux, and increasingly
>> the poor quality control in various distributions and increasingly
>> fragmented distributions makes it difficult to make a single
>> executable work on many Linux distributions."
>>
>> So he's giving up on linux and telling us all to "take it somewhere else"
>> to
>> put it bluntly.
>>
>> This has to be a simple problem since the program only has a window
>> problem,
>> but he's not interested in any solution.
>>
>> So my question to the group is:  "what other scanning solution are you
>> using
>> under linux?"
>>
>>
>> Once again, linux users are second class citizens.
>>
>
> I use Skanlite for basic stuff, gscan2pdf for pdf scanning (multipage and
> so on)
>
>
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