Main window in save mode

• Viewer mode
• Save mode
• Copy mode
• Fax mode
• Mail mode
• Gimp plugin

• Gamma correction
• Brightness
• Contrast
• Threshold
• RGB default
• Negative
• Autoenhancement
• Default
• Restore
• Store
• Histogram window
• Pipette functions

• Pipette white
• Pipette gray
• Pipette black
• Unzoom
• Zoom out
• Zoom in
• Undo zoom
• Autoselect scanarea
• Autoraise scanarea
• Select visible area
• Select scanarea
• Move scanarea
• Delete preview cache

• Copy setup
• Display setup
• Enhancement setup
• Fax setup
• Image setup
• Mail setup
• Saving setup

In the save mode an image is scanned and saved to a file.




   Scanmode:

Select scanmode, e.g.: color, grayscale, halftone, lineart.

   Scansource:

Select scansource, e.g.: Flatbed, Transparency, Automatic Document Feeder.

   Scanmedium:

Select scanmedium, e.g.: slide, standard negative, Agfa negative, ... or Full range.

   Scan resolution:

Select resolution that is used for scanning. If the backends makes available a range of resolutions (e.g. 100-600 dpi) XSane can display a slider or a list of resolutions. You select this via Preferences/Show resolution list.
The backend can define a list of resolutions insted of a range, in this case it is not possible to enable the slider.

To select exact resolutions with the slider click the slider with the mouse pointer and use the cursor keys to change the value in steps of 1, if you press ctrl and a cursor key the step is 10.

   Select filename:

If you press the disk icon a browse dialog is opened where you can select the name of the image file that is created when the next scan is done. You also can enter the filename directly to the text box right to the disk icon. If no path is entered XSane saves the file into the directory selected in Preferences/Change directory.

Step:

If there is a counter in the filename (image-0001.jpg) the counter is increased by the number selected in this box.

Type:

by ext means that the filetype is selected by the extension of the filename. When you select a filetype in this box XSane automatically appends the correct extension to the filename, you should not append a file extension in this case.

Supported filetypes:

Pnm and ps (and raw) are always available. The other formats are only available if necessary libraries are present and support is compiled in. For png you need libpng and libz, for jpeg you need jpeglib, for tiff you need libtiff.

The raw format is a 16 bit binary format. Some programs can read raw files as pnm-format. For the pnm format only 8 bit binary and ascii and 16 bit ascii are defined. We suggest not to use the raw format for storing images you want to view, it is meant for post-processing with programs you write yourself. The advantage is that this format produces much smaller files than the 16 bit ascii pnm format does.

The supported output formats depend on the bit depth of the scanned image:

1 bit/pixel black/white mode:

pnm = pbm, png
ps, jpeg and tiff are converted to 8 bit grayscale mode.

8 bits/pixel grayscale mode:

pnm = pgm, png, ps, jpeg and tiff

16 bits/pixel grayscale mode (9-16 bits):

pnm (ascii), png, raw and tiff

24 bits/pixel RGB-color mode (8 bits/color):

pnm = ppm, png, ps, jpeg and tiff

48 bits/pixel RGB-color mode (9-16 bits/color):

pnm (ascii), png, raw and tiff

optional: (default: not compiled in)

32 bits/pixel RGBA-color mode (8 bits/color):

rgba (raw) and png with alpha channel

64 bits/pixel RGBA-color mode (9-16 bits/color):

rgba (raw) and png with alpha channel