wobo wrote:Having gone through this lately I experienced that xsane's multipage function is only usable for scanners with multipage hardware (feeding page after page automatically). If you activate multipage in xsane the software scans page after page without any break to manually exchange pages in the scanner.
That is not my experience. My scanner does not have any kind of automatic feed. I scan pages one at a time. Xsane pauses after each scan, adds the page to the multipage project and waits until I select another action to be performed (such as to preview or scan another page). I can close xsane and on re-opening can continue adding to the same multipage project as previously. I did use gscan2pdf at one time and I found little to choose between them for ease of use or functionality in producing multi-page pdf files.
(The behaviour of xsane may depend on the hardware being used. I've only ever used two different models of scanner with xsane and the behaviour has been the same for both.)
My comments should not be taken as opposing adding gscan2pdf to Mageia's repo. Having a choice of software is always a good thing.
Jim