On Friday 18 May 2007 11:04, heathenx wrote:
heathenx wrote the following on 5/18/2007 10:56 AM:
anon trol wrote the following on 5/18/2007 8:54 AM:
Does anyone know if there's an easy way to grab an image with a scanner and use inkscape to "save to PDF"?
...I'm moving to linux-vile and I'm jonesing for an Acrobat Professional/Distiller "make pdf from scanner" replacement.
I don't even care if I have to convert raster data to vector data to do it... just give me my fix!
i favorite scanner app in ubuntu is kooka. scan your image, save it, then print to pdf with cups-pdf, then import into inkscape.
heathenx
For linux users at least Gimp has provisions for utilizing Xsane (scanner frontend) as one of the available aquisition tools. You just have to move a copy of Xsane, or a link thereto, to a directory where Gimp looks. On my system it is: /usr/local/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins
Since I generally need to massage and/or convert an image before using it I more often than not use this method of activating Xsane.