I visited http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html and readed about contributing to the project - Writing a Backend (Driver).
The page said that "You don't need to be an experienced programmer. Backends are usually written in C, so some basic knowledge of this language helps. You need a lot of patience, however, especially if you can't get programmer's documentation from your scanner's manufacturer." I learned C many years ago and I still think I remember most of it, but I am not programming very much these days. I am writing here because I think I need all the help I can get. Maybe someone is already doing this, then I might be able to contribute in some way. If not, it feels like there are a lot of things I need to know. Maybe there are similar backend drivers out there that I can get inspiration from and learn how to write things like that. I have the Canon PIXMA MP130 and my operating system is GNU/Linux Ubuntu Studio 7.10. I also have a small partition with Windows XP, so I can use the scanner that way, but of course I want to use it with Ubuntu. At the moment I can only use the printing function with Ubuntu, but I needed to install additional software before that was possible. Is there some kind of software for Windows that can "scan" what's sent and received to/from the MP130 while scanning etc? I guess that would help somewhat. My idea is to write a very basic driver just to make it possible to scan with no fancy features (which are pretty useless anyway in most cases). Some things, like basic image editing, is better done with dedicated software, such as GIMP, I guess. So, any comments to this? Will this task be too tough for someone like me..? Johnny Rosenberg
