Major A wrote: >>Could somebody give me a clue about the possible sample depths? > > > There are only the three you mentioned -- 1, 8, 16. If a scanner > supports, say, 12 bits, then the backend has to expand that to 16 > bits. The way this is usually done is that the scanned samples are > left-justified within the two bytes, i.e. the answer to your question > is 0, 32, 64, 96, etc.
Andras, thanks for clarifying this. Makes life far more easier ;) ABel
