On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Tom Miller wrote: > Allan, > >> unfortunately, this does not meet the spirit of tom's > request, as it will >> make multiple files, and it does not handle the reloading of > the hopper. >> >> tom, you need to investigate the existing front-ends, like >> xsane/kooka/scanadf and see if they do this. > > I am building the dependencies package for xsane. > I spent lot of time in building these packages and it still > wanted more..... These are the packages I had installed so > far. I am still having problem in building gtk... I am also > there.
WHAT? your os already includes packages for all these things, you just remove the existing sane-backends, and install v1.0.18, everything else stays. you may have to do a --nodeps or --force or something when you remove the original sane-backends, otherwise it will complain. > > if not, perhaps you can >> write a new front-end that does this, > > I will have to do that if I can not find anything that > already available. > >> as you and i talked about >> previously. this is a front-end issue, not backend. > > Yes, you are right. Now that I understand a little better > how SANE work. right- the backends just grab raster bitmaps from the scanner and hand them to the front-end. the front-end decides what to do with the image. > >> there was a thread earlier today on this list about > single-file pdf >> generation from multiple input images. this might give you a > place to >> start from. > > Are you still have the thread somewhere that you can send to > me. I can seem to find in my inbox or trash. Can I find it > is the archival?? check the archives at www.sane-project.org allan > > Thanks much, > > Tom > > > > >> >> allan >> -- >> "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you > don't know. >> money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max > Cavalera >> >> -- >> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe > your_password" >> to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
