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
