[sane-devel] Scanport 3000 chip

2003-03-24 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:54:58PM -0500, Cheuk-san Edward Wang wrote: > I have a Scanport 3000 That's the ScanPort SQ 3000? But that would be a parport scanner. On this list, there is a report about a Microtek ScanPort 3000 USB scanner. Is that the one you mean? In this case, can you show u

[sane-devel] Re: generic USB questoin (SANE/Avision and space USB)

2003-03-24 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi. Thanks for your repsonse - but after a whole night of investigating this (including cross-reading the USB spec, I never did USB programming before ...), it works now. I use normal bulk read's from the interrupt endpoint to get the status byte after each command transfer. This seems to work ju

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner

2003-03-24 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi. The Minolta Scan Dual II and Elite II have exposure control. The Dual II is supported by SANE/Avision - the other would need testing ... On: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:34:06 +0100 (MET), Ulrich Deiters wrote: > Some recent film scanners appear not to have exposure controls. > As far as I know,

[sane-devel] ScanJet 3200C

2003-03-24 Thread Alejandro Noli
> > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:40:46 +0100 > From: stef > To: Alejandro Noli > Cc: sane-de...@mostang.com > Subject: Re: [sane-devel] ScanJet 3200C > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:37:45AM -0300, Alejandro Noli wrote: > > > > El jueves 20, a las 06:20, stef escribi?: > > > On Wed, Ma

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner

2003-03-24 Thread Laurent-jan
Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > u...@xenon.pc.uni-koeln.de said: <...> > >>First of all, truncation is an option, not a must. Second, you usually >>want to end up with JPEGs, and that implies 3x8 bit encoding. >> > > Speak for yourself then. Even if your final output is a JPEG you > almost certainly

[sane-devel] positive report on Canon N670U; couple of questions

2003-03-24 Thread Theodore Kilgore
I have just upgraded my home machine from Slackware-8.0 to Slackware-9.0, which contained as a package sane-1.0.11. I installed it and have found that my Canoscan N670U now seems to work with the software "out of the box." Congratulations, all who have been involved in this project! Question 1: S

[Fwd: Re: [sane-devel] HP 3570c scanner - No Backend?]

2003-03-24 Thread Davide Tacchella
Hi, I'm wandering whether you already started any development for your scanner, and if I can somehow help you in this task. Davide On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 14:12, Damien Solley wrote: > Hi All > I have recently received a HP 3570c scanner as a birthday present. > Unfortunately, I've discovered that

[sane-devel] Scanning question...

2003-03-24 Thread Brad
I have Xsane 0.84 on Red Hat 8.0 and when I place, say a photo on the sca= nner=20 glass and scan it, it scans the whole page and I get an image with the ph= oto=20 as a small item in the middle. How can I extract just the photo from the scanned image? I have tried the= =20 preview function and I

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner

2003-03-24 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
u...@xenon.pc.uni-koeln.de said: > Why? Because you are chucking useful information away, that you have just spent hundreds of pounds on a specialist film scanner to acquire, would be the first answer. > First of all, truncation is an option, not a must. Second, you usually > want to end up with

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner

2003-03-24 Thread Ulrich Deiters
> Also backends truncating to 8bit for output are *very* nasty when it > comes to film scanners Why? First of all, truncation is an option, not a must. Second, you usually want to end up with JPEGs, and that implies 3x8 bit encoding. Regards, Ulrich Deiters

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner

2003-03-24 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
u...@xenon.pc.uni-koeln.de said: > Some recent film scanners appear not to have exposure controls. As far > as I know, the Canon FS2710S is such a case. But it scans 3x12 bits, > and so it is OK to do the gamma correction in the backend and then > truncate to 3x8 bit. The Canon FS2710S is *not* a

[sane-devel] Mustek 1200UB problem

2003-03-24 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:21:42PM -0600, jhay...@alumni.uark.edu wrote: > > Something is wrong here, the mustek_usb backend doesn't support > > halftone mode at all. And as far as I remember, the original Mustek > > backend didn't either. Do you mean lineart (black/white) mode? > > What I me

[sane-devel] Scan an image...

2003-03-24 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:58:17AM +1000, saneuser wrote: > I have Xsane 0.84 on Red Hat 8.0 and when I scan an image of a photo, it > procuces an image of an A4 sheet, with the photo in the middle. How do I > just cut the photo image out and save that, rather than the whole sheet? > > I ha

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner

2003-03-24 Thread Ulrich Deiters
Some recent film scanners appear not to have exposure controls. As far as I know, the Canon FS2710S is such a case. But it scans 3x12 bits, and so it is OK to do the gamma correction in the backend and then truncate to 3x8 bit. I think this is just the modern trend in computer pheripherals: Build

[sane-devel] Scanning question...

2003-03-24 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
In the preview window, draw a selection rectangle. When you select an area in the preview window, the scan operation will only scan the selected portion of the image. Brad said: > I have Xsane 0.84 on Red Hat 8.0 and when I place, say a photo on the > scanner glass and scan it, it scans the whole

[sane-devel] Scan an image...

2003-03-24 Thread saneuser
I have Xsane 0.84 on Red Hat 8.0 and when I scan an image of a photo, it procuces an image of an A4 sheet, with the photo in the middle. How do I just cut the photo image out and save that, rather than the whole sheet? I have had a look at the preview, and I can select the autoscan area and zoo