Yet Another Primax GUI
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Fabio Pugliese Ornellas
<neo_fpo@ig.com.br>
ICQ UIN: 6516089
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NOTES

It is Developed and distributed under GPL!
This GUI is written entirely in Tcl/Tk with Visual TCL 1.5.2
It's a frontend for program called "primax_scan"
<http://primax.sourceforge.net/> and pxscan
<http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25069/pxscan.html>. This program was made
to work with primax_scan v0.93beta3 or pxscan 0.41. May work with other
versions, but I am not sure...
It works fine with my Scanner TCE S440 (Primax Colorado Direct 9600).

I know you can scan from console, I'm shure that this GUI gonna work
just fine. I'm not so good in writing English (my native language is
portuguese from Brazil) so sorry for mistakes. If you find one, please
contact me! If you wish to translate it for your language, just do it
and mail me, I will add the translation.

HERE IT IS

What it does ?

-This GUI provides all features provided with driver
-non-realtime preview yet...
-Saving scanned images in TIFF (original from primax_scan, use GIMP or
other program to convert it to other formats, converting to many formats
is not one goal of this program!)
-Selecting region to scan within preview window with your mouse
-Tuning contrast, brightness, gamma, resolution, compression, channels,
port, speed of carriage and max. optical resolution of the scanner values
-Warm up the lamp for a user defined time
-opens scanned image with your prefered photo editor or do what ever
you wish to do with the scanned image, like print it
-calculate file size
-show size of selected area (cm, mm, inches, pixels)

KNOWN BUGS

FIXED-v2.99beta-ALWAYS select File>Exit from the program menu, or it
will still remain in your memory and may not save the configuration!!
-the program seems to have crashed while scanning something (it is only
waiting primax_scan finish to continue, do not worry)
FIXED-v2.0-the program seems to be crashed while warming up the lamp
FIXED-v2.99beta-some poblems wih configuration files from older versions:
if you have problems, just delete it /usr/local/etc/.yaprimaxGUIrc
FIXED-v2,99beta-can not exit while warming up the lamp (TIP: go to
Scanner Settings window and put warm up time to 0)
-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...

TO-DO

-fix things above
DONE-v1.1-show size of selected area in main window
DONE-v1.1-show an estimative of the size of the TIFF file
DONE-v2.99beta-creating a possibility to move or resize selected area
(I do not have idea how to do it, if you know, please make it and
mail-me! Thanx!)
-real time preview (same as above)
-make the program not stop responding while scanning
DONE-v2.0-make the program not stop responding while warming up
DONE-support for pxscan also
-Any ideas?
Mail me at: neo_fpo@ig.com.br
ICQ UIN: 6516089
