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Output

Eikazo has at present two output options:

Both output options can independently be enabled and disabled, i.e., you can save the same scan to a file and print it.

If both outputs are disabled, you get roughly the same as the preview in other Sane frontends: the scanned image is only displayed in a window on the monitor.

Save to File

You can select the destination directory and the filename by either typing the path directly into the field "filename", or you can click the "Browse" button to select the destination directory with the usual graphical file selection dialog.

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output tab for "Save to File", TIFF format selected

Filenames should contain a "format expression", allowing the program to insert a number. In the screenshot above, this is '%04i', meaning that a four-digit number will be used; if the file number is less than 1000, leading zeroes will be inserted.

If you want to insert a single literal '%' symbol in the filename, type two ('%%') into the field.

Technically, the value of the field filename is used as a Python format string; you can use any format expression that is applicable to integers.

The value of "file increment" is added to the file number, when a file has been saved. This value may (as well as the filecounter itself) be negative.

File Format options

At present, Eikazo allows to save the image in a TIFF file and in a JPEG file. For TIFF files, you can additionally define the TIFF fields "copyright" and "description".

For JPEG files, you can specify the quality of the image.

Copier

The copier sends the scanned image as Postscript data to a printer.

You can select the usual parameters like page size, page margins etc.

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output tab for "Copier"

For the selection of the printer, Eikazo does not use a GUI dialog. The library libgnomeprint, which prives such a dialog, has unfortunaetly at present a few problems which make it unusable for Eikazo.

Instead, you must specify a command line program in the field "print command". The postscript data is passed as stdin to this program.

The default program is lpr, which is available on most Unix/Linux systems.

lpr sends the print data to the default print queue; if you want to use another one, add the -P option, like lpr -P specialPrinter. For more options or other command line print programs like lp, please refer to their man pages.