# Re: Documentation: Scanarea

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:11:59 -0800

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>>>>> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:24:47 +0100, Ralph Angenendt <ralph@berlin.snafu.de> said:

Ralph> Hi folks after fiddling around with scanimage and xscanimage
Ralph> (and nearly giving up) I figured out, that the
Ralph> default-scanarea (only with the Microtek-backend???) is
Ralph> something like 2x0 cm. After changing this to default a4 size
Ralph> everything was okay. Could you somehow put this into the
Ralph> documentation (took me nearly 2-1/2 days to figure that out -
Ralph> stupid me ;))

The intent is that backends default to the full scanarea (where
possible/sensible). I'm not sure why the Microtek backend limits the
scan area to 2x0cm. Matthew?

--david

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