[sane-devel] xsane and large previews

2002-05-22 Thread Major A
> Hm. I don`t think that this is correct: > With 1000 dpi in the test backend I get an image with 7874*7874 pixels. > With 16 bits/pixel this is a size of 354MB. Xsane does store the > original image (with full depth) and the enhanced image with 8 bits/sample > what makes additional 177MB in this c

[sane-devel] xsane and large previews

2002-05-20 Thread Oliver Rauch
> > But that's not the only problem. Memory consumption is very big. I can > scan with the test backend with 1000 dpi without problems. But when I > set the minimum resolution to 1000 dpi in test.conf, xsane needs 538 MB > of memory when doing the preview. The image itsself is "only" 35 MB in > si

[sane-devel] xsane and large previews

2002-05-19 Thread Major A
Henning, > Maybe the backend should provide a smaller resolution and so do the > down-sampling itsself. E.g. It could use 100 dpi for preview mode. > This also makes network-scanning much faster. Good idea, will probably go into coolscan2 with SANE 1.0.9... Andras

[sane-devel] xsane and large previews

2002-05-19 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:40:54PM +0100, Major A wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to use xsane 0.86 with a Nikon LS-8000ED, which is a > medium-format scanner with a minimum practical preview resolution of > 1000dpi. This generates huge previews whatever I do. Maybe the backend should provide a small

[sane-devel] xsane and large previews

2002-05-17 Thread Major A
Hi, I'm trying to use xsane 0.86 with a Nikon LS-8000ED, which is a medium-format scanner with a minimum practical preview resolution of 1000dpi. This generates huge previews whatever I do. Now the problem seems to be that I use xsane over an ssh tunnel, and it is exceedingly slow this way (1 line