hfigui...@teaser.fr said: > According to Jonathan Buzzard <jonat...@buzzard.me.uk>: > > In a perfect world there would be a open source equivalent of Vuescan. > > In the mean time it is a possible solution for large numbers of people. > > Over 90% of desktop/workstation computers in use are x86 derivatives. > > With this reasoning, we all would be using Windows. What else ? It is > not because most user have Intel PCs that Linux == Intel PC. This > assertion is false.
I made no such assertion so get of your high horse. I made a correct assertion that was very carefully phrased. It is a matter of fact that over 90% of all computers used on a desktop are x86 based. I at no time claimed that Linux == Intel PC. As a matter of record I have a Sun machine under the desk, though I am typing this from my Toshiba laptop. However there does not always exist open source software to accomplish all tasks. Even RMS acknowledges this fact. Several of those areas are in the domain of scanning. One of which is the professional level scanning of negatives and slides. What I put forward was and remains a possible solution to the problem that WORKS TODAY. While there is some rudimentary support for scanning negatives and slides in XSane it had already been flagged up as *inadequate* by the original poster. You are on a free/open source software high horse. You failed to read closely the original post, you fail to acknowledge that the OP wants a solution today not some potential solution sometime in the future. Finally you fail to acknowledge that your assertion that Vuescan is not a solution WAS TOTALLY INCORRECT, as it was indeed a solution for the person in question. If you have not got anything useful to add the discussion then keep you views to yourself and shut up. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1661-832195