Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:54:50PM +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > [About 1-bit RGB modes] > >>All that said, I suspect that the number of people actually making >>use of this is rather small. > > > My conclusion of this thread is: It could be used in a reasonable > manner. So let's keep it and define the behaviour once and for all:
Right, Jonathan made an interesting point. > > The SANE standard reads: > > | 3.2.1 Image Transmission > > [...] > > | Conceptually, each frame is transmitted a byte at a time. Each byte > | may contain 8 sample values (for an image bit depth of 1), one full > | sample value (for an image bit depth of 8), or a partial sample value > | (for an image bit depth of 16 or bigger). In the latter case, the > | bytes of each sample value are transmitted in the machine's native > | byte order. > > I propose to add: > > "For depth 1, the order of the bits within each byte is most > significant bit to least significant bit." To avoid any misunderstanding: "For depth 1, the leftmost pixel is stored in the most significant bit, and the rightmost pixel in the least significant bit." ? And all that for Sane 1 or shall we leave it for Sane 2? Abel