Yet Another Primax GUI
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I. Introduction

Yet Another Primax GUI is a front end to two text only driver programs
for some Primax scanners unser Linux/UNIX.

These text only programs, primax_scan and pxscan, can
be downloaded from http://primax.sourceforge.net/ and from
http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25069/pxscan.html. It seems that there is
a SANE backend for primax_scan, but Yet Another Primax GUI is still
another alternative...

The following scanners are supported by primax_scan by now:
* Primax Colorado Direct 300
* Primax Colorado Direct 600/30bit
* Primax Colorado Direct 9600
* Primax Colorado 1200p
* Primax Colorado USB 19200
* Nework Scanny MM100
* Genius Colorpage-Vivid+
* Storm Totalscan

The pxscan program was developed to work together:
* Primax Colorado Direct 9600

New versions of Yet Another Primax GUI can be downloades from
http://orbita.starmedia.com/~neofpo/.

The author would apreciate sugestions, bug reports or anything you wish
to say about this program. Please contact me by ICQ or email:
ICQ UIN: 6516089
email: neo_fpo@ig.com.br

II. Usage

The usage is very simple, it is similar to the "original" program for
Winblows from Primax.

You click "Preview" button to make a preview of the image, then with your
button 1 of your mouse, you may select an area you wish to scan. Once
the selection is done, moving your mouse over it, it will become blue,
so you can move it using button 2 or 3. On the edges, the selection will
become yellow, witch indicates that you can resize it with button 2 or
3. On the botton of the main window, The size of selected area is shown,
and an estimative, without compression, of the file size is given.

After selection is done, you may click on "Scan" to scan the image to a
tiff file. If none is selected, you will be prompted for its name. There
are 2 alternative buttons, witch can be costumized to open the file with
you prefered photo editor or anything you wish to do with the file you
have just scanned.

III. Configuration

Configuration in accessible from "Settings" menu.

"Image" will let you set resolution and color. Clicking "More" will give
you more advanced (useless...) configuation.

"Options" menu will let you configure the two alternative button and
select default unit. The alternative buttons configuration is simple:
first gap goes the command line to lauch the program, where $tiff will
always be the PATH for the scanned image (NEVER use mode than one time
$tiff, or you WILL have problems!!); on the second gap goes a short
description of the program; the last option will be to choose either
to run the program in background and leave the tiff file alone, or to
wait the program exits and delete the tiff file. This last is useful
when you convert the tiff file to pnm, for example, the original tiff
will be trash. Nothe that you may use pipes (|) to send the stout of a
program to another. Click "Default" button to have an example.

"Scanner" menu will let you specify witch program driver you wish to use,
primax_scan or pxscan, then the adress of the parallel port, the optical
resolution of the scanenr (primax_scan only), the speed of the carriage
(note that smaller values increases the speed!\, primax_scan only) and
the time of warm up of the lamp. You may also select to turn of lamp on
exit and to auto warm up un start up.

IV. Known BUGS

There are still some known bugs (and may be lots of unknown). Here
they are:

-the program seems to have crashed while scanning something (it is only
waiting primax_scan or pxscan finish to continue, do not worry)
-can not guess if the lamp was on before the program starts
-can not know what happened with pxscan or primax_scan after run, if
something went wrong, Yet Another Primax GUI may not handle it correctly
-the timer of lamp warm up seems to be 5 seconds late per minute. Set
to 60 seconds is in truth 65 seconds...
