Another gimp question

[Ken Moffat]

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>>2.  When acquiring an image via the scanner, is there a simple way to
>>preview the scan, select a smaller section to scan, and then do the scan
>>for real?  My wife will be primary user of the scanner, and she will
>>want this functionality which was provided by her old Win$Crap software.
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If you use either xsane or xscanimage, you have a preview option. If you 
show the preview window, there is a preview button, and after you 
acquire the preview, you can click and drag a selection, which will end 
up being the size of your final scanned image.

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Ken Moffat
kmoffat at drizzle.com