2007/12/10, Epostlistor <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>: > > 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 >
Okay, seems like nobody's interested in this, so I guess I'll just skip the idea and buy another skanner instead. Besides, I guess that I would have failed doing this anyway. Johnny Rosenberg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20071218/35efa32d/attachment.htm
