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4. Questions and Answers

These are the questions that never have been asked and the answers I would have given if they were asked.

Question:
Why is this program called "QuiteInsane"? Isn't this a stupid name?
Answer:
About 99% of all programs have stupid names, one more doesn't matter. I was simply looking for a name, which begins with a "Q", like many other applications that use Qt, and which contains "SANE".
Question:
QuiteInsane compiles just fine, but linking breaks with the message:

g++: /usr/local/lib/.libs/libsane.so: No such file or directory

What does this mean?
Answer:
This is caused by a bug in the SANE versions < 1.0.4. Open the file "libsane.la" under /usr/local/lib (or where else you've installed SANE) with an editor. Change the line
installed=no
to
installed=yes
and run make again.
Question:
Configure breaks with an error message when it checks for Qt. What can I do?
Answer:
If you installed the Qt sourcepackage, you probably didn't set QTDIR correctly. Try the following:
export QTDIR=/YourPath/qt-2.2.x
(if your shell is bash, ksh, zsh or sh)
setenv /YourPath/qt-2.2.x
(in case your shell is csh or tcsh).

You have to replace "YourPath" with the real path, and qt-2.2.x with the real Qt version, of course. If you've installed a RPM package, make sure, that the devel package is also installed; many distributions split Qt in two packages.
Question:
When I start QuiteInsane, a message box is shown which is telling me, that no devices were found. What might be wrong?
Answer:
This probably isn't a problem related to QuiteInsane. Try to run "scanimage -L" from the command line. Does this result in a list of devices? If it does, you should report this as a bug in QuiteInsane. Otherwise please read the SANE documentation for information about how you can set up your scanner correctly.
Question:
The print dialog shows two spin boxes, which allow to set the resolution. They are often set to values that are not supported by my printer.
Answer:
The values you can set here have absolutley nothing to do with the capabilities of your printer, they specify the image resolution. E.g. if you've scanned an image with a resolution of 300x200 dpi and set these values to 300 and 200, then the result is a printed image with the same size as the original image. If you plan to print the scanned image, you should choose a resolution close to your printers capabilities. It doesn't make much sense to scan with a resolution of 1200dpi, if your printer only supports 300 dpi.
Question:
I'm using a parallel port scanner which shares the port with a printer. When I'm using the "Multi scan" mode to scan and print multiple images, I get error messages like "Error during device IO".
Answer:
This is a problem with parallel port scanners and printers in general. QuiteInsane can not determine whether printing has been finished; it only knows, that the data has been send to the print queue. Therefore it's possible, that QuiteInsane attempts to start a new scan while the printer just started to print. Since both devices use the same port, this leads to an error message.

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