graphics/sane-epkowa/iscan-2.11.0

Image Scan! for Linux Description

Copyright (C) 2004--2008  SEIKO EPSON Corporation


Contents
1   Preamble
2   Version Up Record  --> moved to NEWS file
3   Operating Condition
4   Installation Method
5   Running the Software
6   Options
7   Limitations
8   Known problems


1  Preamble

During our contact with the Free Software Foundation to straighten out
the licensing problems with "Image Scan! for Linux" we noticed that we
needed to clear up what parts are distributed under which conditions.
Here is an attempt.

"Image Scan! for Linux" contains the following parts:

  iscan			the program you use to scan your images
  libsane-epkowa	an improved driver for EPSON scanners
  libesmod		a proprietary module used by iscan

The latter module is provided (in object code form only) under the
terms of the license agreement provided in `non-free/EAPL.en.txt'.
The module is linked against libraries from the `glibc' package
which is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License.

The `iscan' program is covered by the GNU General Public License with
a special exception that allows linking with the `libesmod' module.

The libsane-epkowa driver is released under the same conditions as
the SANE backends, that is under the GNU General Public License with a
special exception that allows linking a SANE library with other files
to produce an executable.

Unless explicitly noted otherwise in the file itself, all other files
in the non-free/ directory are copyright SEIKO EPSON Corporation and
distributed under the terms of the EPSON AVASYS Public License (see
non-free/EAPL.en.txt).

Copies of the GNU General Public License and the GNU Lesser General
Public License can be found in the files `COPYING' and `COPYING.LIB',
respectively.

The `iscan' program supports the following scanners:

            Seiko Epson Flatbed Scanner
            - Perfection 610
            - Perfection 640U
            - Perfection 1200S/Perfection 1200U/Perfection 1200U PHOTO
            - Perfection 1240U
            - Perfection 1660 PHOTO
            - Perfection 1640SU/Perfection 1640SU PHOTO
            - Perfection 1650/Perfection 1650 PHOTO
            - Perfection 2400 PHOTO
            - Perfection 2450 PHOTO
            - Perfection 3200 PHOTO
            - Perfection 4870 PHOTO
            - Perfection 4990 PHOTO
            - Perfection V700
            - Perfection V750
            - Expression 1600
            - Expression 1680
            - Expression 1640XL
            - Expression 10000XL
            - GT-2500
            - GT-10000/GT-10000+
            - GT-15000
            - GT-30000
            - ME200
            - Stylus CX2800/Stylus CX2900
            - Stylus CX3500/Stylus CX3600
            - Stylus CX3700/Stylus CX3800/Stylus DX3800
            - Stylus CX3900/Stylus DX4000
            - Stylus CX4100/Stylus CX4200/Stylus DX4200
            - Stylus CX4500/Stylus CX4600
            - Stylus CX4700/Stylus CX4800/Stylus DX4800
            - Stylus CX4900/Stylus CX5000/Stylus DX5000
            - Stylus CX5100/Stylus CX5200
            - Stylus CX5300/Stylus CX5400
            - Stylus CX5900/Stylus CX6000/Stylus DX6000
            - Stylus CX6300/Stylus CX6400
            - Stylus CX6500/Stylus CX6600
            - Stylus CX7300/Stylus CX7400/Stylus DX7400
            - Stylus CX7700/Stylus CX7800
            - Stylus CX8300/Stylus CX8400/Stylus DX8400
            - Stylus CX9300F/Stylus CX9400Fax/Stylus DX9400F
            - Stylus Photo RX420/Stylus Photo RX425/Stylus Photo RX430
            - Stylus Photo RX500/Stylus Photo RX510
            - Stylus Photo RX520/Stylus Photo RX530
            - Stylus Photo RX560/Stylus Photo RX580/Stylus Photo RX590
            - Stylus Photo RX600
            - Stylus Photo RX620/Stylus Photo RX630
            - Stylus Photo RX640/Stylus Photo RX650
            - Stylus Photo RX700
            - Stylus Photo RX585/Stylus Photo RX595/Stylus Photo RX610
            - Stylus Photo RX680/Stylus Photo RX685/Stylus Photo RX690
            - AcuLaser CX11
            - AcuLaser CX21

A number of non-free plugins are available separately that provide
support for the following scanners:

            - Perfection 1250/Perfection 1250 PHOTO
            - Perfection 1260/Perfection 1260 PHOTO
            - Perfection 2480 PHOTO
            - Perfection 2580 PHOTO
            - Perfection 3170 PHOTO
            - Perfection 3490 PHOTO
            - Perfection 3590 PHOTO
            - Perfection 4180 PHOTO
            - Perfection 4490 PHOTO
            - Perfection V10
            - Perfection V100 PHOTO
            - Perfection V200 PHOTO
            - Perfection V350 PHOTO
            - Perfection V500 PHOTO
            - Stylus CX4300/CX4400/CX5500/CX5600/DX4400

The required modules can be downloaded via:

  http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/index.html


2  Version Up Record

   [moved to NEWS file]


3  Operating Condition

- Kernel 2.4.3 or later is required when connecting your scanner by USB.
- Kernel 2.4.8 or later is required when connecting Perfection 1250/
  Perfection 1250 PHOTO and Perfection 1260/Perfection 1260 PHOTO.
- The hard disk requires at least double size of an image data size to
  be scanned.


4  Installation Method

It is required that the following packages are installed previous to
the installation of Image Scan! for Linux.
 - sane-backends

4-1  Installing a rpm file

NOTE: The RPMs provided by EPSON AVASYS Corporation have been built on
      RedHat 9 with gimp-devel from RHEL4 added for GIMP2 support.

Execute the following rpm command to complete the installation.

  # rpm -i iscan-${version}-${release}.i386.rpm

where you should substitute the version of your Image Scan! for Linux
for ${version}-${release}.  So, if you downloaded iscan-1.5.1-5, then
the ${version} part would be 1.5.1 and the ${release} part would be 5.

Depending on the distribution, dependency errors may occur.
Running the following command will suppress dependency checks,
and complete the installation.

  # rpm -i --nodeps iscan-${version}-${release}.i386.rpm

If an old version of Image Scan! for Linux  exists,
run the following command and update to the latest version.

  # rpm -U iscan-${version}-${release}.i386.rpm

Note that the installation of Image Scan! for Linux from rpm requires
that sane has been installed from rpm as well.

4-2  Installing a tar file

Execute the following command to complete the installation.

  # tar -zxvf iscan-${version}-${release}.tar.gz
  # cd iscan-${version}
  # ./configure
  # make
  # make install

Note that the installation of Image Scan! for Linux from tar requires
that sane has been installed from tar as well.


5  Running the Software

At the command prompt, execute the following command to
start Image Scan! for Linux.

  $ iscan


6  Options

Normally, installating a binary package will register iscan as a GIMP
plugin.  In case this did not happen, or you compiled and installed
iscan from source, you can register it as a plugin yourself with the
following command:

  $ ln -s /usr/bin/iscan ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/

Adjust the version number to match the version of the GIMP that you
use (and /usr/bin to wherever iscan was installed).  If you want to
make it available system wide, you can do that with:

  # ln -s /usr/bin/iscan `gimptool --gimpplugindir`/plug-ins/

If the GIMP complains something like

  duplicate plug-in: "/usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/iscan"

Just remove ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/iscan and all should be fine.

In order to print from directly from Image Scan! for Linux, your print
system needs to be able to handle the PNG file format directly.  CUPS
does this by default.  Furthermore, Photo Image Print System, versions
1.3.1 and later, will also work out of the box.

The latest version of Photo Image Print System can be downloaded via:

  http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/


7  Limitations

 All models
  - marquee sizes can only be set at multiples of 8 (in rare cases 32)

 Perfection 2480 PHOTO / Perfection 3490 PHOTO
  - the multi photo feeder (MPF) option is not supported

 Perfection 2580 PHOTO / Perfection 3590 PHOTO
  - only scanning from the flatbed is supported
  - the multi photo feeder (MPF) option is not supported

 Perfection V350 PHOTO
  - the auto film loader (AFL) option is not supported


8 Known problems

======================================================================
 - A printer configuration dialog keeps appearing after every single
   scan action.
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 + This has been confirmed on FC6 and you can fix the problem with an
   upgrade of the `hal-cups-utils` package.  Version 0.6.9-1.fc6 has
   been confirmed to solve it.
   You will need to configure the printer part of the device to use a
   HAL device URI, that is, something that starts with `hal:///` (of
   course without the quotes), via the CUPS web interface or Fedora's
   `system-config-printer` utility.  If you can configure the printer
   via the `Specify Printer Driver` dialog, that should also work and
   is probably easier for most.
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