Scanner and PDF Weirdness

[krisbee2000]

I had to scan in some articles into my computer and make them pdf files. Every time I scan in Kooka, and print through the cups/kprinter dialog to a .pdf file, the resulting file has garbled lines of gray in it (when looking in ghostview, xpdf shows them as white blank lines). If print to a .ps file, there is no problem, but when I print from the .ps file to the .pdf file, the same thing happens.

 

If I scan in xsane, save as a .ps file, open the .ps file in kghostview, print with cups/kprinter to a .pdf file, there are no garbled artifacts at all.

 

This of course is good that I can accomplish my goals, and I am starting to like xsane better anyway, but I would like to fix this error.

 

Any ideas what the heck is going on?

 

Thank you in advance,

Kris

[krisbee2000]

bump.

 

This is a real problem... any pointers?

 

--Kris

[scarecrow]

No problems here with kooka, although I use it mainly as an OCR application (and I have to admit that OCR under Linux sucks badly...).

Have you tried using OOo2 Draw? The scanner module is quite decent, and OOo2 can output complex documents directly to pdf.

[devries]

Works for me. I scan in Kooka, click the printer icon in Kooka, from the dropdown menu I select print tp pdf file and a few seconds later I get a pdf file with my scan.

 

Try the convert to pfd from normal file (for example in kwrite). What happens then?