The VueScan Kiss-off

[Clay Weber]

On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:17:58 AM Fred A. Miller wrote:
> On 01/29/2014 11:03 AM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:30:04 AM you wrote:
> >>> I've been using Skanlite. It's pretty basic but fill my needs just
> >>> fine. I don't do a lot of scanning.
> >> 
> >> I use VueScan most of the time, because it gives me VERY GOOD when
> >> scanning B&W or color negatives, restoring images from tin plates, etc.
> >> It DOES work perfectly on openSuSE 12.3 and 13.1.....just for an FYI.
> >> 
> >> Fred
> > 
> > Yep....  and it worked fine on kubuntu 13.04 but not on 13.10
> > 
> > It has to be a very simple fix, something to do with window refresh since
> > that's what seems to give vuescan a 'kick' to do some action.   But I
> > guess Ed Hamrick just can't be bothered to look into it.
> > 
> > I'll let you know how I do with skanlite....  it looks like a workable
> > solution.
> 
> I'd guess that it has something to do with the compile of KDE on Kubuntu
> and not a VueScan problem. This based on my installs on a number of
> Linux flavors.
> 
> Fred

I would say it is likely another issue, as upon trying out this program unregistered 
(watermark embedded on images, nags) I an not seeing any issues at all. This is on 
13.10, on two different machines. This application is using Qt, probably a static 
build and thus not using the libraries that come with one's distro. 


Clay Weber (claydoh)
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