[sane-devel] CinePaint and sane

[Rene Rebe]

Hi Robin - hi all,

Robin Rowe wrote:

> The GIMP plugin interface is too restrictive. The new CinePaint 
> interface is a shared memory framebuffer. Independent applications will 
> be able to directly access CinePaint images in memory, not have to 
> launch from within CinePaint.
> 
> We're looking into adapting flscan to make it CinePaint-aware. Is flscan 
> a good starting point for scanner support?

I'm the author of the Avision backend and have (multiple) 16bit per 
channel scanners here in the office - and the SANE/Avision backend 
already supports 16bit scanning for some time now.

In my position of project leader of T2 (a System Development Environment 
- http://www.t2-project.org) I'm accidently also the packager of 
cinepaint (http://www.t2-project.org/packages/cinepaint.html) and 
inherently interested in 16bps imaging under Linux.

I have never heared about flscan before - so - well - no idea ...

What help do you need on your plugin side? Also note that you will need 
a seperate code-path for TWAIN support under OS X and Windows ...

Yours,

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