[sane-devel] reverse compatibility list?

2004-09-17 Thread Diego Zuccato
Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: > I can at least tell you that EPSON supports the Sane development, and > you can also get a (not completely free) frontend from EPSON KOWA. But "Epson Italia" doesn't inform users that many Epson scanners work well in Linux :-( Maybe Epson Kowa guys could get upset :-) P

[sane-devel] Affordable film scanner

2003-04-02 Thread Diego Zuccato
Ulrich Deiters wrote: > Some recent film scanners appear not to have exposure controls. > As far as I know, the Canon FS2710S is such a case. But it scans > 3x12 bits, and so it is OK to do the gamma correction in the backend > and then truncate to 3x8 bit. I have the same scanner. But I think I'm

[sane-devel] SANE V2

2002-12-09 Thread Diego Zuccato
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > And this would be returned by any SANE API function that currently > returns SANE_Status? Nice, because it links the error number and the > message. No need for an extra call to a function. Yep. That's why I like this method. :-) > However: How long is errmsg valid?

[sane-devel] SANE V2

2002-12-08 Thread Diego Zuccato
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > So the backend would call the callback immediatly, when a fatal error > occurs. Fatal means, that it will return anything other than > SANE_STATUS_GOOD. This would work for command-line programs but may be > messy for graphical frontends. Errr... Since you're definin

[sane-devel] Canon-SCSI backend

2002-11-12 Thread Diego Zuccato
Deiters wrote: > thank you for the tip about the array length; I will check this. I "hit" the bug some time ago (around 25/10), and Henning Meier-Geinitz found it. > The FS2710 does not seem to be influenced by downloaded gamma tables. Yep! It is. Or at least I've had MAJOR troubles when trying t

[sane-devel] Scanner for 6x6 slides

2002-11-05 Thread Diego Zuccato
Hello. I'm looking for a good (and supported :-) ) scanner that could acquire 6x6 slides with at least the same quality the Canon Fs2710 acquires 24x36 ones. If it could acquire from bigger (I've some really old - around year 1932) sources, it could be better. It's better if it supports bulk scan

[sane-devel] Garbage after device names?

2002-10-26 Thread Diego Zuccato
Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > str = malloc (16 + 1); > memset (str, 0, sizeof (str)); malloc+memset => calloc But: str[16]=0; should be enough. No need to zero-out memory you're going to overwrite immediatly. > The memset won't work because sizeof (str) is always 4 (on 32 bit > platforms)

[sane-devel] Garbage after device names?

2002-10-25 Thread Diego Zuccato
Hello. I'm new to this list (but not to Sane :-) ) and I'm having a strange problem. Previously I used an old RedHat + sane-1.0.4 + xsane-0.77 and all was quite ok. Now I've upgraded (well, reinstalled from scratch) to Mdk9.0, then installed (from source) sane-1.0.9 (pre1, then final) and xsane-0.