[sane-devel] Good bye

2008-04-01 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello friends, sane-developpers, sane-users and everyone else who may be interested. I have been active for more than ten years for SANE and on the sane-devel mailing list now. In the last years my priorities have changed and so I decided to spend my time for my family and my little doughter in th

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Oliver Rauch
I can not believe it. There is someone who says I will start working on SANE2 and you have nothing better to do than to tell him it is better not to do it. This is called progress. Really good. Best regards Oliver Am Freitag, den 28.03.2008, 08:52 +0100 schrieb Rene Rebe: > Have you counted t

[sane-devel] more actions fore sane 1.1

2008-03-02 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Sonntag, den 02.03.2008, 18:14 +0100 schrieb Ren? Rebe: > Not really. TWAIN also has the DataSource, the backend driver, a > DataSourceManager multiplexing between the sources and the > applications, and the frontend applications. The architecture is > mostly the same. And yes, the data source

[sane-devel] more actions fore sane 1.1

2008-03-02 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Sonntag, den 02.03.2008, 13:05 +0100 schrieb Ren? Rebe: > And I also want to point out once more that during a major > rewite we'll probably loose drivers for old hardware as there > will be few people re-writing a backend for the oldest devices > most developers do not have anymore. This is

[sane-devel] more actions fore sane 1.1

2008-03-02 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Sonntag, den 02.03.2008, 13:05 +0100 schri > If it is not for a gradual and compatible improvement of SANE, but > a significant rewrite it would make more sense to adapt an wide > deployed industrial standard such as TWAIN, SANE and TWAIN work on different levels. SANE is an interface between

[sane-devel] more actions fore sane 1.1

2008-03-01 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Samstag, den 01.03.2008, 21:37 +0100 schrieb ?tienne Bersac: > Hi, > > http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=85620&dict=CALD tells the > reverse : > > > to change slightly, especially in order to make more correct, > > effective, or suitable: > > One given example is even about comp

[sane-devel] more actions fore sane 1.1

2008-03-01 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Samstag, den 01.03.2008, 21:03 +0100 schrieb ?tienne Bersac: > Does a german and an itilian understand the same thing behind > "Tweaking" ? ;) Don`t know what you understand behind "tweaking", I understand it as a bad, unconventional improvement in an improper way. Best regards Oliver

[sane-devel] more actions fore sane 1.1

2008-03-01 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Samstag, den 01.03.2008, 13:39 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Zummo: > no? mine is to tweak, yours is not to tweak.. I'd say > they are quite different :) BTW: in every stupid comment there is a bit truth Now I see that tweaking is your goal and so I understand why we don`t find a conclusion. My

[sane-devel] more actions fore sane 1.1

2008-02-28 Thread Oliver Rauch
Add some more things and we are close to sane2. Don`t you think you already lost control about what you started? Please take a step back and take a look at what you are doing. Oliver Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2008, 23:39 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Zummo: > > while we are discussing how to implem

[sane-devel] meaning of 1200x2400 etc. explained

2008-02-18 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Montag, den 18.02.2008, 13:48 -0500 schrieb m. allan noah: > two places where this does not work: > 1. the backend does not expose resolution options because it only has one > choice > 2. the backend does not know the resolution the scanner will actually > use until after the call to start sc

[sane-devel] meaning of 1200x2400 etc. explained

2008-02-18 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Freitag, den 15.02.2008, 15:08 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Zummo: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:37:08 -0500 > "m. allan noah" wrote: > > > unfortunately, the DPI is not one of the parameters reported to the > > frontend via sane_get_parameters, so a backend that does not have > > resolution controls,

[sane-devel] How to define xsane printer

2007-12-29 Thread Oliver Rauch
You have to enter the command line option with which you can print a file. On most systems this is "lp" or "lpr". If you want to specify a special printer (if you have more than one or no default printer) then you have to add the correct option, e.g. lpr -P laserjet I don`t know what command lin

[sane-devel] Unable to scan because of failures . . . failed re-install

2007-12-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Sonntag, den 23.12.2007, 20:41 +0100 schrieb Julien Michielsen: > Julien Michielsen schreef: > > Architecture of my machine: Asus A8NE Motherb with Athlon 64 processor. > > Distro SuSE 10.3 for i32 processor > > Scanner: Epson 2580 > > xsane 0.994 > > > > After starting xsane, and clicking "sca

[sane-devel] The future of the SANE-Standard

2007-12-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Sonntag, den 23.12.2007, 14:58 +0100 schrieb Julien BLACHE: > Speaking of branching and stuff, would anyone oppose a move to > subversion ? The association of "branching" and "CVS" makes me a bit > nervous and brings back bad memories :) I'm probably not the only one > ;) I have no problems

[sane-devel] The future of the SANE-Standard

2007-12-21 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Freitag, den 21.12.2007, 22:21 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Zummo: > we are very concerned toward compatibility and existing frontends. in > particular, > we are trying to do thing in a way that allows xsane to work without > modifications. > > if it wasn't for those concerns, we would just

[sane-devel] The future of the SANE-Standard

2007-12-21 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Freitag, den 21.12.2007, 20:53 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Zummo: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:45:25 -0500 > "m. allan noah" wrote: > > > if i understand your list, there is a 4th option- add and _inform_ by > > SONAME/version# change. > > > > Bumping the SONAME seems to be the only way to make the

[sane-devel] The future of the SANE-Standard

2007-12-19 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Mittwoch, den 19.12.2007, 19:27 +0100 schrieb Julien BLACHE: > > Would you care to explain why the addition of new frame types > would create any such problems ? Because that's the only thing that > has been discussed so far - no ABI changes, no new functions in the > API, just new frame type

[sane-devel] The future of the SANE-Standard (was: permission request)

2007-12-19 Thread Oliver Rauch
m Dienstag, den 18.12.2007, 15:01 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Zummo: > To: > Gerhard Jaeger > Henning Geinitz > Julien Blache > Oliver Rauch > Petter Reinholdtsen > M. Allan Noah > > Hello SANE Admins, > > I would like, in the

[sane-devel] [announce] coolscan3 release

2007-12-17 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 11:39 -0500 schrieb m. allan noah: > > Please don`t try to force all that into SANE1 > > It already IS in SANE1 in at least one backend. > I don?t talk about what a single backend does. I talk about the standard. > the current SANE2 draft spec is too big for anyone to

[sane-devel] [announce] coolscan3 release

2007-12-17 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 17:18 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Zummo: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:20:28 +0100 > Oliver Rauch wrote: > > > Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 14:37 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Zummo: > > > > > > > > from what I've understood

[sane-devel] [announce] coolscan3 release

2007-12-17 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 08:58 -0500 schrieb m. allan noah: > > there are also at least three fax compression variants, as well as a > text variant for hardware patch-code support. i've got a HUGE scanner > in my dining room ATM that needs these. Actually, the bell and howell > backend already

[sane-devel] [announce] coolscan3 release

2007-12-17 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 14:37 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Zummo: > > from what I've understood we'd need RGBI, GRAYI and RIGIBI. If there's space, Can someone explain me for what RIGIBI is needed? There is no "red infrared" "green infrared" or "blue infrared". Are there any scanners that produc

[sane-devel] ghostscript so much better with pdf files than xsane

2007-12-01 Thread Oliver Rauch
Did you enable "save PDF zlib compressed" in preferences/setup/file type ? Best regards Oliver Am Freitag, den 30.11.2007, 23:05 +0100 schrieb Julien Michielsen: > The filesize of as pdf saved scans is enourmous: one page scans often > take more than 14 Mb of filespace. However, when reading a co

[sane-devel] unable to specify sane default save-directory

2007-12-01 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello Julien, the manual is not up to date. The saving directory handling has been changed. The desired way is to give a complete path/filename in the filename box. This is what automtically happens when you use the filechooser dialog. When you enter only a filename without path then the CWD (curr

[sane-devel] xsane-0.995 released

2007-11-21 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I just released xsane-0.995 as sourcecode with the appended changes. Thanks to everyone who sent code improvements and for everyone who cares about the translations. I hope we have a stable version with xsane-0.995. Have a lot of fun and good results. Best regards Oliver List of changes

[sane-devel] scan can not be stopped: possible problems with sanei_thread?

2007-09-15 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. After an update to the cvs version of sane-backends I released that it is not possible to stop a scan or a preview scan any more with the umax backend. This is tested with scanimage and xsane. AFAIR I did not make any changes relevant to this points in the umax backend or in xsane. (And sc

[sane-devel] xsane: page counts and ADF

2007-08-10 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Donnerstag, den 09.08.2007, 21:03 +1000 schrieb David Campbell: > Hi, > > I have some comments on xsane about page counts and about ADF: > > [1] > If you're using a flatbed scanner and in the main scanning window you > change the number of scan pages to a number, for example 30, and you > st

[sane-devel] xsane infinite loop lockup - seems to boil down to compiler optimisation difference

2007-08-08 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Dienstag, den 07.08.2007, 22:28 +1000 schrieb David Campbell: > > This means that the current comparison "if (new_val != val)" in the > xsane_back_gtk_value_update() function in xsane-back-gtk.c is invalid, > because if there is the slightest difference in the floating point value > (and th

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-29 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Dienstag, den 29.05.2007, 17:34 +0200 schrieb Ren? Rebe: > On Monday 28 May 2007 23:14:22 you wrote: > > Am Montag, den 28.05.2007, 18:35 +0200 schrieb Ren? Rebe: > > > > > > > > Sane already has so many options that are unsupported by > > > most frontends, yet another frametype will not matte

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-28 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Montag, den 28.05.2007, 18:35 +0200 schrieb Ren? Rebe: > > Sane already has so many options that are unsupported by > most frontends, yet another frametype will not matter much > at all. Can you give one good example? > > If I feel like setting a bitdepth of 32 or 64 bits all frontends > I

[sane-devel] Additional frame types in Sane 1

2007-05-28 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Sonntag, den 27.05.2007, 14:08 -0400 schrieb m. allan noah: > > > > > > > Well extending SANE1 will certainly start the new discussion > > > about finishing SANE2 standard before starting - ACK ;) > > > But as we did not move forward and scanner support for Linux > > > is more or less stopped i

[sane-devel] Scanners available for experiments

2007-05-08 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Dienstag, den 08.05.2007, 13:52 +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > > Tell me if it is of any interest. > > > Heidelberg Linoscan 1200 (SCSI) > This scanner may be compatible to the umax backend. When you tell me the scsi id of the scanner and you are able to compile sane-backends from s

[sane-devel] xsane Segmentation fault

2007-05-06 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Sonntag, den 06.05.2007, 00:52 +0200 schrieb Claus Boje: > Hi > > Working on a patch for the epson perfection 4990 scanner for the epson2.c > driver (not in any stabel version of sane yet) I found after heavy debugging > that xsane makes a "Segmentation fault" when i get data bigger than 32K

[sane-devel] pdf format and jpeg compression

2007-04-18 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Mittwoch, den 18.04.2007, 11:04 +0200 schrieb gp...@free.fr: > Selon Julien BLACHE : > > > gpe wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > Is it possible to use jpeg compression for the pdf format in XSane? > > > > Not at the moment. > > > > JB. > > > Is it planned soon? > > gpe > No, it may come later

[sane-devel] Epson Perfection V100 scanner

2007-03-19 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Freitag, 16. M?rz 2007 14:55 schrieb Thomas H. George: > The iscan software does have the advantage of prescan and selection of a > smaller region for the final scan, a feature lacking with xsane and the > Perfection 2400. On the negative side I must set the zoom to 85% as at > 100% my printer

[sane-devel] UMAX stopped working

2007-03-19 Thread Oliver Rauch
If I remember right you have to disable "quality calibration" for this model when connected via USB. May be you enabled this option. Best regards Oliver Am Samstag, 17. M?rz 2007 16:33 schrieb j...@johnallsopp.co.uk: > Hi > > I've tried the FAQ and all the Sane instructions I can find and can'

[sane-devel] Re: XSane's PDF output disliked by macosx's Preview

2007-03-19 Thread Oliver Rauch
On Monday 19 March 2007 17:20, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > What xsane version did you use? > > It was 0.991. > > > Please test xsane-0.994 and please test with and without zlib compression > > for PDF (Preferences/setup/filetype) > > I've just tried it with zlib compressed (I always use this opti

[sane-devel] XSane's PDF output disliked by macosx's Preview

2007-03-07 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello Stefan. What xsane version did you use? Please test xsane-0.994 and please test with and without zlib compression for PDF (Preferences/setup/filetype) Best regards Oliver Am Dienstag, 6. M?rz 2007 19:19 schrieb Stefan Monnier: > I'm using XSane from the Debian testing distribution and am

[sane-devel] xsane-0.994 bugfix release

2007-03-04 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. XSane-0.994 is released. It fixes two bugs: - crash when scan is started (and no ICC/ICM scanner profile is defined) - invalid postscript files (are not printable but can be displayed on screen) http://www.xsane.org Best regards Oliver

[sane-devel] Bug in xsane-0.993: xsane crashes when scan is started

2007-03-04 Thread Oliver Rauch
Bug in xsane-0.993: When no ICC/ICM profile is defined then xsane crahses when a scan is started. There is no way to solve this problem when color management (lcms) is not compiled in. When color management is compiled in then you can go to preferences/setup/color management and enter an ICC/I

[sane-devel] xsane 0.993 and commandline-parameter

2007-03-01 Thread Oliver Rauch
Works fine for me. I suggest you remove (or rename) the config dir ~/.sane/xsane Best regards Oliver Am Donnerstag, 1. M?rz 2007 08:41 schrieb cool.chri...@web.de: > Hi, > > I've just installed the new xsane-release from packman (SuSE 10.2). > > To start it normal, without any commandline-param

[sane-devel] xsane-0.993 released

2007-02-26 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I just released xsane-0.993. THIS IS A BETA TEST VERSION! - Please note that this version may produce strange results - NEWS: * A lot of color management improvements (CMS still in beta test): - embedded profiles for postscript and PDF - convert to sRGB

[sane-devel] Warning: E-Mail bug in xsane-0.992

2007-02-11 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I just found a bug in the email mode of xsane-0.992 Problem: XSane tells you the mail has been sent but in fact it was not accepted by the mailserver. So you think the mail has been sent but IT HAS NOT BEEN SENT! The bug will be fixed in xsane-0.993, but I have to do some work on xsane-

[sane-devel] missing directories in sane CVS tree

2007-01-30 Thread Oliver Rauch
m. allan noah: > On 1/30/07, Oliver Rauch wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I just tried to compile sane-cvs after a long time and got some error > > messages in the subdir "tools" due to not existing directories > > > > hotplug > >

[sane-devel] missing directories in sane CVS tree

2007-01-30 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I just tried to compile sane-cvs after a long time and got some error messages in the subdir "tools" due to not existing directories hotplug hotplug-ng udev I could simply add the directories to the CVS but I don`t know what should be listed in the .cvsignore fil

[sane-devel] transaltions of sane-backend texts

2007-01-29 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I just saw that there are several (820) lines in the translation tables of sane-backends.*.po in the po directory of sane-backends are marked "fuzzy". Please note that a translation that is marked "fuzzy" is not used. When anyone changes any texts in the po files please remove the "fuzz

[sane-devel] broken link in html document of xsane

2007-01-27 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. These links are very old and AFAIK have never worked. I planned to make the backend authors to write a html document for their backends, but if I remeber right this has never happened. Looks like you are the first one who tested this within the last 5 or 10 years ;) When sane-backends in

[sane-devel] xsane-0.992 released

2007-01-27 Thread Oliver Rauch
e. > > kind regards > Kai-Uwe Behrmann > -- > development for color management > www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org + www.cinepaint.org > > Am 25.01.07, 22:52 +0100 schrieb Oliver Rauch: > > Hello. > > > > XSane-0.992 is released. > > > > It

[sane-devel] xsane-0.992 released

2007-01-25 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. XSane-0.992 is released. It contains some bugfixes and rudimentary color management support. Please consider this version as beta-code, it may crash or create unespected results. You find it on http://www.xsane.org Best regards Oliver

[sane-devel] What represents the logo of Sane?

2007-01-25 Thread Oliver Rauch
When no one else remebors or likes to answer then I try to recall: The SANE-Logo is the winner of the Gimp-Contest in December 1998. It has been created by Stefan Kamphausen. It does not represent a phone - although you are right, it looks a bit like a phone. If I remeber right then the Symbol

[sane-devel] Is there a buffer setting for xsane?

2007-01-20 Thread Oliver Rauch
A backend has to be able to handle all possible buffer sizes for then sane_read command. the command "scanimage -T" does test the behaviour of a backend with different buffer sizes. xsane uses a sane_read with a buffer size of 64kB. Best regards Oliver Am Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2007 00:57 schri

[sane-devel] Any colormanagement (ICM/ICC) work flow experieneced user here?

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I started implementing colormanagement for xsane (I am quite impressed about the first results) and I am looking for a ICM/ICC work flow experienced user. When you are interested to give me some help about work flow please contact me directly, not via sane-devel. Best regards Oliver

[sane-devel] SANE2, time for a decision

2007-01-06 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Samstag, 6. Januar 2007 20:39 schrieben Sie: > > This way we could have finished the standard in about 8-12 weeks. > > > > After that we could start coding SANE2. And when this standard is worth > > to support it then there will be coders for sanei-code and for frontends. > > I do agree on the

[sane-devel] SANE2, time for a decision

2007-01-06 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Samstag, 6. Januar 2007 16:19 schrieb Alessandro Zummo: > The poll options will be: > > - Reopen development on SANE1 > - Fork SANE1 > - Wait SANE2 indefinitely The SANE2 standard is not finished, so it does not make sens to start coding SANE2. It would be a big mistake to start coding S

[sane-devel] xsane "image position"

2006-06-26 Thread Oliver Rauch
With the widget you are talking about you select the image position on the printed page. Due to a change in the last version this does not work for all printers any more. This will be corrected in the next xsane version. With the zoom solider you select the zoom factor of the printed image. 1.0 me

[sane-devel] Medion MD5345 (ALDI) with sane-genesys backend and xsane

2006-03-15 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello Andreas, this looks a bit like you have two sane-backends versions installed. 1) What does xsane menu File->Info... sane version tell? 2) What does find / -name "libsane-dll.so*" print? Oliver Am Die, 2006-03-14 um 19.21 schrieb Andreas Piening: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use xsane (or th

[sane-devel] Libre Graphics Meeting from 17 to 19 March 2006 in Lyon, France

2006-02-04 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. David Neary has asked me if I would come, but I think I will not have the time to come. I do not know who wants to represent the XSane project - I am the only one who is working on xsane. Best regards Oliver Am Sam, 2006-02-04 um 23.01 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > Hi all, > > I don't know

[sane-devel] xsane-win32-0.991 released

2006-01-28 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello xsane-win32-0.991 has been released and can be downloaded from http://www.xsane.org Best regards Oliver

[sane-devel] xsane-0.991 released

2006-01-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. xsane-0.991 is released. It is a bugfix version of xsane-0.99 you can download it from http://www.xsane.org Best regards Oliver

[sane-devel] xsane-0.99 released

2006-01-10 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. xsane-0.99 is released. short list of changes: - multipage project to create multipage documents, types: ps, pdf, tiff - ASMTP support - improved ADF handling - several bugfixes and small improvements - may be some new bugs :) you can download it from: http://www.xsane.org

[sane-devel] XSANE: memory limits?

2005-12-08 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello Doug, xsane (the frontend) allocates its memory dynamically. In general the image is not stored as complete image in memory. The image is saved directly to a file. Only the viewer loads the image into the memory. Converting the file format to e.g. tiff, jpg, ... only allocates the memory tha

[sane-devel] Bugfix for xsane-0.98a

2005-12-03 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. Some people reported problems (especially preview problems) with xsane-0.98 that did not occur with xsane-0.97. I found a little bug that is solved in xsane-0.98b that can be downloaded from http://www.xsane.org You also can fix it by hand: edit xsane-0.98a/src/xsane-front-gtk.h and sear

[sane-devel] photocopy with 300dpi wrongly scaled

2005-12-02 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Don, 2005-12-01 um 12.49 schrieb Frieder Ferlemann: > Hi, > > I'm using an Epson Perfection 1240U scanner and a Samsung > ML 6060 (HP compatible printer) with xsane 0.98a on OpenSuSE 10.0 > and I have a problem with the photo copy function. > > Using 150 dpi resolution (set on the Konfiguratio

[sane-devel] XSane-0.98 Microtek2 OS/2 Problem

2005-11-25 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello Franz, As a workaround you can define BUGGY_GDK_INPUT_EXCEPTION while compilation then sane_get_select_fd / gdk_input_add are not used by xsane. Oliver Am Fre, 2005-11-25 um 00.51 schrieb Franz Bakan: > Hi, > > I have a bugreport from a user, based on recent CVS version of SANE > and the

[sane-devel] xsane-0.98 released.

2005-11-20 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I released xsane-0.98 sourcecode you can download it from http://www.xsane.org When I will find the time I will create a xsane-WIN32 binary, but this will take some time! Best regards Oliver CHANGES:

[sane-devel] xsane logo name

2005-11-04 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. If I remember right some characters are replaced by an underscore "_" when creating filenames. And an underscore is replaced by a two underscores "__". So try with abcdefg__usbsc Best regards Oliver Am Fre, 2005-11-04 um 19.38 schrieb Rayudu Addagarla: > Hello > I am trying to get my ow

[Fwd: Re: [sane-devel] Re: request for extra xsane functionality]

2005-10-28 Thread Oliver Rauch
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[sane-devel] Re: request for extra xsane functionality

2005-10-28 Thread Oliver Rauch
o rescale the image accordingly, before it is > put on the screen. > > I hope the above doesn't sound completely stupid, but I know that Windows > software can do something like this. And I only want Linux software to be at > least as good. > > Jan. > > > >

[sane-devel] sane_control_option question

2005-10-17 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Mon, 2005-10-17 um 19.58 schrieb Henning Meier-Geinitz: > Hi, > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 06:15:24PM -0400, Fred Odendaal wrote: > > Yes, I'm also quite surprised. It works fine with xscanimage, but > > doesn't when I use xsane. So I compared the debug output. &

[sane-devel] xsane support of 16-bit grayscale scanner output

2005-09-07 Thread Oliver Rauch
XSane does get this information from the backend. May be you have to select an option (Scanmode or in standard or advanced options window) to tell the backend to use 16bits/sample. May be the scanner does not support 16 bit output, only uses 16 bit internal and outputs 8 bits/sample. Oliver Am M

[sane-devel] UMAX Astra 2200sc: slow calibration

2005-07-17 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. Is your scanner connected via scsi or via usb? I suggest to disable "quality calibration". Then the calibration is done inside the scanner without the help of the driver. When there is no dust on the calibration area then there is no quality problem with "quality calibration" disabled. Fo

[sane-devel] How to interpret mode and depth

2005-06-14 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello Mohit, you find the answer in the descriptons in sane/sane-backends/include/sane/saneopts.h: SANE_DESC_BIT_DEPTH: "Number of bits per sample, typical values are 1 for line-art and 8 for multibit scans. 8 bits per sample for RGB => 24 bits / pixel Best regards Oliver Am Die, 2005-06-14

[sane-devel] [ANN] Unpaper - post-processing scanned book-pages

2005-03-05 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Sam, 2005-03-05 um 15.50 schrieb gerard klaver: > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:03 +0100, Jens Gulden wrote: > > Hello, > >=20 > > unpaper removes black edges and other photocopy artefacts from scanne= d=20 > > images. It also deskews book pages (auto-rotates them to a straight=20 > > alignment), and

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-25 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Fre, 2005-02-25 um 18.12 schrieb m. allan noah: > the only problem i see with this is that some backends can do scsi and > usb, and need that set in the config file, before the backend will find > the scanner and present it to the front-end for configuration. so you have > a chicken and egg

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-24 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Don, 2005-02-24 um 18.49 schrieb Julien BLACHE: > "m. allan noah" wrote: > > > let me ask this: how many of the config files that must be kept are > > kept because they have scanner-specific information in them, as > > opposed to backend-specific information? > > > > ie: how many times does a

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-24 Thread Oliver Rauch
like. Oliver Am Mit, 2005-02-23 um 21.35 schrieb Sergey Vlasov: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:36:44PM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote: > > It is dangerous when a setup program or an unexperienced user is > > changing the config file. For supported scanners it generally is not > >

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
> but you give no reasons why! you just repeatedly say we are doing wrong. > that is not constructive. > > yes, what the vendors do is odd and divergent from the normal sane > installation (suse's insistence on resmgr comes to mind) but if you admit > that there is a 'bad situation', the how ab

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Mit, 2005-02-23 um 20.59 schrieb m. allan noah: > most respectfully oliver, i disagree. perhaps your points about scanner > damage, etc are true in your backend because of models of scanners that > you support, but for my backend, it is far more likely that there is an > odd variation on the

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I do not understand the discussion about the sane config file format. In a usual/normal case the config file of a backend should not be touched by a user or configuration program: - We do not need to enter any device files because the sanei_* routines search the devices and passes them to

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I do not understand the discussion about the sane config file format. In a usual/normal case the config file of a backend should not be touched by a user or configuration program: - We do not need to enter any device files because the sanei_* routines search the devices and passes them to

sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

2005-02-23 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I do not understand the discussion about the sane config file format. In a usual/normal case the config file of a backend should not be touched by a user or configuration program: - We do not need to enter any device files because the sanei_* routines search the devices and passes them to

[sane-devel] ScanPartner 15c and Automatic Document Feeder

2005-02-16 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Mit, 2005-02-16 um 20.49 schrieb Jason Joines: > Oliver Rauch wrote: > >When you define this modus in preferences->setup/Enhancement as > >"Automatic Document Feeder Modus" and thelect this modus as > >scansource in the main window then xsane will scan un

[sane-devel] ScanPartner 15c and Automatic Document Feeder

2005-02-16 Thread Oliver Rauch
When you define this modus in preferences->setup/Enhancement as "Automatic Document Feeder Modus" and thelect this modus as scansource in the main window then xsane will scan until the backend returns with an error. Oliver > Am Mit, 2005-02-16 um 19.22 schrieb Jason Joines

[sane-devel] ScanPartner 15c and Automatic Document Feeder

2005-02-16 Thread Oliver Rauch
Take a look at preferences->setup Tab Enhancement When your scanner has a special scansource defined for the Automatic Document Feeder then select the mode for Automatic Document Feeder Modus Oliver Am Die, 2005-02-15 um 22.07 schrieb Jason Joines: > I'm using xsane-0.95 and sane-1.0.14 on S

[sane-devel] No Desktop icon & Xsane won't close with "x"." Not responding"

2005-02-10 Thread Oliver Rauch
And what happens when you select File->quit instead? Oliver Am Don, 2005-02-10 um 21.04 schrieb nigel henry: > On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 4:03 pm, you wrote: > > Am Don, 2005-02-10 um 00.55 schrieb nigel henry: > > > Problem2: > > > I start Xsane on the CLI and can close it ok with "x" in the RH co

[sane-devel] No Desktop icon & Xsane won't close with "x"." Not responding"

2005-02-10 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Don, 2005-02-10 um 00.55 schrieb nigel henry: > Problem2: > I start Xsane on the CLI and can close it ok with "x" in the RH corner if I > dont do any scans. If I run a scan and then try to close Xsane it brings up a > warning "Not responding" box. Not as bad as XP caus at least it does close

[sane-devel] Umax Astra 2100S does preview scan but not regular scan

2005-02-08 Thread Oliver Rauch
Disable the option "quality calibration" Oliver Am Die, 2005-02-08 um 19.58 schrieb ikle...@gmx.de: > Hi all. > > I've got a Umax Astra 2100S (the SCSI model) that in addition has an USB > interface. I am not sure whether this was the standard model or some special > series... > > I am using De

[sane-devel] [RFC] Locking devices via sanei_access lib...

2005-02-07 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Mon, 2005-02-07 um 20.10 schrieb Gerhard Jaeger: > On Monday 07 February 2005 16:50, Oliver Rauch wrote: > > Am Mon, 2005-02-07 um 14.10 schrieb Gerhard Jaeger: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Monday 07 February 2005 12:41, Johannes Meixner wrote: > > > &g

[sane-devel] [RFC] Locking devices via sanei_access lib...

2005-02-07 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Mon, 2005-02-07 um 14.10 schrieb Gerhard Jaeger: > Hi, > > On Monday 07 February 2005 12:41, Johannes Meixner wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > On Feb 7 12:11 Gerhard Jaeger wrote (shortened): > > > The idea is to provide a simple locking mechanism for the backends, > > > to have exclusive access

[sane-devel] xsane-0.97 batch scanning bug

2005-01-29 Thread Oliver Rauch
e (only my selfbuilded > version, the pacman-xsane works, but only with the batch-error). > > There is only one sane- and one xsane-version on my system. > > Christoph > > Am Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2005 20:18 schrieb Oliver Rauch: > > Hello Christoph, > > > >

[sane-devel] xsane-0.97 batch scanning bug

2005-01-27 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello Christoph, Thanks for your bug report. I was able to reproduce the bug with the umax backend. With sane-pnm everything worked fine - that was the reason why I did not recognize the bug before the release of 0.97. You can correct it this way: in xsane-batch-scan.c function void xsane_batch

[sane-devel] xsane-0.97 released

2005-01-22 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. I just release xsane-0.97 sourcecode. You can download it from http://www.xsane.org A WIN32-Binary is currently NOT available. NEWS: - write_smtp_footer(): changed ".\r\n" by "\r\n.\r\n", this solves problems with microsoft exchange servers.

[sane-devel] bubblegum colours from Umax Astra 600S

2005-01-04 Thread Oliver Rauch
Please enable debug output of the backend by setting the environment variable SANE_DEBUG_UMAX to 12, then do a preview and a real scan and the the debug output to me (not to the list). Oliver Am Die, 2005-01-04 um 18.46 schrieb Robert Persson: > I am having trouble with the quality of scans from

[sane-devel] xsane preview and scanning problem

2004-12-31 Thread Oliver Rauch
it. >=20 > Can this be turned off in the backend? >=20 > Regards, > Rich >=20 > On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 14:06 +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote: > > Hello. > >=20 > > Disable "quality calibration" if it is enabled. > >=20 > > Oliver > >=20 &g

[sane-devel] xsane preview and scanning problem

2004-12-31 Thread Oliver Rauch
el 0, id 4, lun 0 > Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi1, channel 0, id 4, lun 0, type 5 > > sane-find-scanner > found SCSI scanner "UMAX Astra 2200 V2.2" at /dev/scanner > found SCSI scanner "UMAX Astra 2200 V2.2" at /dev/sg1 > > scanimage -L > device `

[sane-devel] sanei_usb and libusb_timeout

2004-12-01 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Mit, 2004-12-01 um 20.39 schrieb m. allan noah: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: >=20 > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 02:54:59PM +0100, Ren=C3=A9 Rebe wrote: > >> the default timeout passed to libusb of 30 seconds is quite a bit lo= ng. > >> So recovering from errors is

[sane-devel] [patch] fix SANE_Device

2004-11-18 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Don, 2004-11-18 um 06.09 schrieb Frank Zago: > Oliver Rauch wrote: > > Am Mit, 2004-11-17 um 20.58 schrieb fz...@austin.rr.com: > > > >>>Hello Frank. > >>> > >>>I am not a fan of this patch. > >>>I think it will work but I think

[sane-devel] [patch] fix SANE_Device

2004-11-17 Thread Oliver Rauch
--=-RUwrefXyfKzMY5rN2jAg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am Mit, 2004-11-17 um 20.58 schrieb fz...@austin.rr.com: > > Hello Frank. > > > > I am not a fan of this patch. > > I think it will work but I think it is a hack. > > > > It seems that only a few backends have prob

[sane-devel] [patch] fix SANE_Device

2004-11-17 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Mit, 2004-11-17 um 06.04 schrieb Frank Zago: > Frank Zago wrote: > >=20 > >> > >> The SANE standard defines the comunication between frontend and back= end. > >> It does not define any structs that shall be internally used by the > >> frontend or backend. > >> > >> I think the clean appoach is t

[sane-devel] [patch] fix SANE_Device

2004-11-14 Thread Oliver Rauch
Am Son, 2004-11-14 um 13.17 schrieb Henning Meier-Geinitz: > Hi, >=20 > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:14:10AM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote: > > Please can you explain what error/warning the const produces on your > > system? >=20 > e.g.: > abaton.c: In function sane_abaton_

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