[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-19 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
m. allan noah wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 12:37 PM, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 08:40 -0500, m. allan noah wrote: >>> On 12/18/07, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Il giorno mar, 18/12/2007 alle 12.00 +, Jonathan Buzzard ha scritto: > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:13 +0100, Giusepp

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 08:40 -0500, m. allan noah wrote: > On 12/18/07, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > Il giorno mar, 18/12/2007 alle 12.00 +, Jonathan Buzzard ha scritto: > > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:13 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > [...] > > > > So, my questions: is there already any standard

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno mar, 18/12/2007 alle 09.37 -0500, m. allan noah ha scritto: [...] > ahh- so how does the user determine this offset? does he measure the > strip before placing it in the machine? We do not behave all the same way, so I will tell you how I am used to work. I preview the first frame, then

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno mar, 18/12/2007 alle 08.40 -0500, m. allan noah ha scritto: > On 12/18/07, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: [...] > why does the front-end need to be involved in the movement at all? can > the backend not detect the additional slides and move the feeder > automatically? perhaps i am not picturing t

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:40:22 -0500 "m. allan noah" wrote: > > > > Is this problem "solved" with SANE2? > > would both of you please excuse my ignorance, as i primarily deal with > ADF machines, but- > > why does the front-end need to be involved in the movement at all? can > the backend not det

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno mar, 18/12/2007 alle 12.00 +, Jonathan Buzzard ha scritto: > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:13 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: [...] > > So, my questions: is there already any standard for those action? Is > > there any defined rule for how to name a backend parameter like > > "--frame-number"

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread m. allan noah
On Dec 18, 2007 12:37 PM, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 08:40 -0500, m. allan noah wrote: > > On 12/18/07, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > > Il giorno mar, 18/12/2007 alle 12.00 +, Jonathan Buzzard ha scritto: > > > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:13 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > >

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi all, I am slowly working on the coolscan2 backend and I am looking at tiffscan for batch scanning. What I see is that any frontend that would drive a batch scan should manage different type of feeder and pages. Probably the easier one is the ADF case where the scanner load/eject every page; but

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:13 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Hi all, > I am slowly working on the coolscan2 backend and I am looking at > tiffscan for batch scanning. > > What I see is that any frontend that would drive a batch scan should > manage different type of feeder and pages. Probably the ea

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread m. allan noah
On Dec 18, 2007 9:05 AM, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il giorno mar, 18/12/2007 alle 08.40 -0500, m. allan noah ha scritto: > > On 12/18/07, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > [...] > > why does the front-end need to be involved in the movement at all? can > > the backend not detect the additional slides and mov

[sane-devel] frame and batch mode

2007-12-18 Thread m. allan noah
On 12/18/07, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il giorno mar, 18/12/2007 alle 12.00 +, Jonathan Buzzard ha scritto: > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:13 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > [...] > > > So, my questions: is there already any standard for those action? Is > > > there any defined rule for how to name