[sane-devel] SANE2 and filmscanners

2002-12-24 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 04:42:35PM +, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: [multipass option] I was thinking of a option like say SANE_NUMBER_PASSES which is an option list. The reason for this is that most hardware based multi-pass scanning offers only powers of two passes, so 2,4,8,16. I presume

[sane-devel] SANE2 and filmscanners

2002-12-24 Thread Michael Herder
Henning Meier-Geinitz, Dienstag, 24. Dezember 2002 15:15: ... True but closely related to this is the fact that scanning a single frame is a slow process; 10 minutes a frame is not unrealistic. Therefore if I only want one frame scanning the lot is a massive pain. If I have an APS film

[sane-devel] SANE2 and filmscanners

2002-12-21 Thread Oliver Rauch
On Saturday 21 December 2002 15:53, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: I have just taken a look at the SANE2 documentation, and a couple of things have struck me about lack of support for some features in filmscanners. The first is multipass scanning. Basically what happens here is that the scanner can

[sane-devel] SANE2 and filmscanners

2002-12-21 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
oliver.ra...@rauch-domain.de said: A backend should make an sane option for this feature. There is no need to make a well known option for this. There should at least be a recommended name for the option. It would be silly for one backend to call it multipass and the next multiple_passes and