[sane-devel] UMAX 1220u versus Mac OS X 10.3.1

2003-12-12 Thread RĂ©mi Zara
Hi, Could you try with SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=3D5, since it seems that the log=20= you provided was with SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=3D3 : > [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of sanei_usb to 3. Le 11 d=E9c. 03, =E0 06:02, Alex Beaman a =E9crit : > I'm having trouble getting scanimage to detect my

[sane-devel] How to download files for Artec e+48u scanner?

2003-12-12 Thread cr
Many thanks for this very comprehensive reply.I'll set about trying it out right away. Regards Chris On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:14, Bjoern Brill wrote: > Sorry, had to resend this, used a wrong From: address first time. > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:3

[sane-devel] FW: SANE back-end development

2003-12-12 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, in addition to what the others wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 06:47:10PM -0800, David Chamberlin wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to develop a binary distribution of a > sane back-end that uses a proprietary protocols The SANE standard is public domain so you can use any license

[sane-devel] Sugg: frontend to scan and append to pdf

2003-12-12 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
an...@pfeiffer.edu said: > the problem is the freaking huge filesizes you will get. perhaps you > should instead look at one of the multi-image in single file formats, > like tiff. are you doing bw, gray, or color scans? Depends on the page. If the page has no colour on it I do a greyscale scan a

[sane-devel] FW: SANE back-end development

2003-12-12 Thread Matthew Duggan
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 06:47:10PM -0800, David Chamberlin wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to develop a binary distribution of a > sane back-end that uses a proprietary protocols and to distribute this > back-end with sane-backends? > Can manufacturers that make only binary back-end

[sane-devel] Sugg: frontend to scan and append to pdf

2003-12-12 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
k...@khk.net said: > As Henning and Andras have suggested, converting scans to a PDF > document is trivial (even though I would not use TeX for this), > appending to a PDF is a totally different matter. This is a pretty > complex job. You need a PDF library that allows you to read a PDF file > an

[sane-devel] Sugg: frontend to scan and append to pdf

2003-12-12 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
jante_n...@yahoo.co.uk said: > What I often do is scan each page and add as jpeg to a word processing > document. This works but is time consuming and boring and technically > unneccesary. Yuck. In general for a text document this is a horrid way of doing it. The vast majority of pages are best r

[sane-devel] brother MFC 9160: laserprinter+copier works fine - and scanner?

2003-12-12 Thread Ekkard Gerlach
* Henning Meier-Geinitz schrieb: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 11:33:15PM +0100, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: > > brother MFC 9160 is a all in one box, digital copier, > > emulating LaserJet 6P (PCL 5e), > > printing via parallel port and USB works fine. > > > > Scanner interface is TWAIN compatible. [..

[sane-devel] FW: SANE back-end development

2003-12-12 Thread abel deuring
David Chamberlin wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to develop a binary distribution of a > sane back-end that uses a proprietary protocols and to distribute this > back-end with sane-backends? > Can manufacturers that make only binary back-ends advertise "Supported by > Sane" or "Ru

[sane-devel] Sugg: frontend to scan and append to pdf

2003-12-12 Thread m. allan noah
the PDF::API2 library for perl is pretty useful. i use it to do this sort of thing everyday for our apps here. it can re-write the xref table, etc. the problem is the freaking huge filesizes you will get. perhaps you should instead look at one of the multi-image in single file formats, like tif

[sane-devel] FW: SANE back-end development

2003-12-12 Thread m. allan noah
last time i checked, there were no lawyers on this list. it does not matter what any of us thinks about how possible your plan is, it matters what they lawyers think. you simply MUST ask your companies legal counsel. but as a personal note, i agree strongly with abel. do not say that it is 'sup

[sane-devel] brother MFC 9160: laserprinter+copier works fine - and scanner?

2003-12-12 Thread Ekkard Gerlach
Henning, * Henning Meier-Geinitz schrieb: > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 11:33:15PM +0100, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: > > brother MFC 9160 is a all in one box, digital copier, > > emulating LaserJet 6P (PCL 5e), > > printing via parallel port and USB works fine. > > > > Scanner interface is TW