The VueScan Kiss-off

[David Lang]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Bruce Marshall wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:03:48 -0500
> From: Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: The VueScan Kiss-off
> 
> 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've been using it on 13.10 without a problem, but I haven't updated vuescan 
since december. I don't remember exactly which version I'm running, but there 
was a significant version bump around that time and I upgraded shortly after 
that bump.

David Lang