Hi, On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:05:50AM +0000, Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida wrote: > I have been looking at the "best way" to control film holder movement. As far > as I could tell in 1.0.6 no backend was supporting this (at least the > coolscan and the canon fs didn't). > > Today I had a look at the coolscan2 project. It allows an option -frame as in: > > scanimage -frame 3
Does this mean "move to frame 3 and then scan an image" or just "move to frame 3"? > My proposal is similar, but more elaborate. I think that it could also be > arranged so that it facilitates life for adf scanners. Possible commands > would be: > > scanimage -number-of-frames [...] Looks like all these commands aren't intended to scan something. However, that's the basic principle of scanimage. If you want to have these features, I propose to write a new frontend (probably based on scanimage) which can be added to sane-frontends. > This interface and an extension in the api would allow a simple integration > with other frontends. The SANE API won't be changed in the current version 1. Maybe this is an option for version 2. I don't understand the idea of some of these options, especially the options that only return information. However, I don't own a film scanner so I'm not the right person to judge this. If I'm completely wrong and the options you described can be set before a scan as usual, I don't see a problem to implement them as the normal SANE options. Bye, Henning
