[sane-devel] [announce] coolscan3 release

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:58:01 -0500
"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  from what I've understood we'd need RGBI, GRAYI and RIGIBI.
> 
> there are also at least three fax compression variants, as well as a
> text variant for hardware patch-code support. i've got a HUGE scanner
> in my dining room ATM that needs these. Actually, the bell and howell
> backend already supports all these, with a #ifndef.

 My dining room is free for your use :-D 

 I would output something like XML for every kind of barcode/patchcode/text
 output. this way the frontend will work even for new data types.

 something like

 <barcode x=".." y="..." type="...">
	<code>....</code>
 </barcode>


>  If there's space,
> >  i' love to have a way to ask the backend for scanner make/model. :)
> 
> that is already in the SANE_Device struct?

 Yes, but it is not accessible after sane_open, if I have understood correctly?
 only when you ask the driver the list of devices.
 
> >  if we can make RGBI = 0x10 I will avoid to rewrite the frontend :)
> >
> 
> if you include sane.h you wont have to change it later.

 sure I will, but the binary is the wild, so I was trying to avoid
 some work ;)

 
 ps- are you on the mailing list? i'll stop cc'ing you if so...

 sure!

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it