16 bit pnms are poorly supported. If you don't want 16 bit data, don't ask for it from the backend :)
allan On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Gernot Hassenpflug <aikishugyo at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I just got some results from film scans with the new Canoscan 9000F. > GIMP cannot open the file, complaining about unsupported maximum value > (65535 below), indicating I think multibyte image. The header looks as > follows: > > P6 > # XSane settings: > # ?resolution_x ? ?= ?300.0 > # ?resolution_y ? ?= ?300.0 > # ?gamma ? ? ?IRGB = 1.09 1.00 1.00 1.00 > # ?brightness IRGB = ?0.8 ?0.0 ?0.0 ?0.0 > # ?contrast ? IRGB = ?0.8 ?0.0 ?0.0 ?0.0 > # ?color-management= 0 > # ?cms-function ? ?= 0 > # ?cms-intent ? ? ?= 0 > # ?cms-bpc ? ? ? ? = 0 > # ?icm-profile ? ? = z^? > # XSANE data follows > 01746 00901 > 65535 > ...<data>... > > > I wonder if there is some setting that need to be made in the front > end... if so I should let the user know. I can think of "reduce 16 bit > image to 8 bit" in the Xsane options, but this is usually off by > default. Other than that, I do not see any options I can discover. > > Regards, > Gernot Hassenpflug > -- > ISP Asahi-Net: http://asahi-net.jp/en/ > No.1 in Japan by customer satisfaction > (Nikkei News, 7 July 2010) > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
