[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

2002-01-28 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:29:43AM +, Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida wrote: > If I understand correctly the summary is: > > - use dev->sane.type = "film scanner"; Ok. I will add a comment to the TODO list. > - suggest to the frontends adding a button-type option "Query > scan-informati

[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

2002-01-28 Thread Max Ushakov
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:43:53AM +0100, Ulrich Deiters wrote: > "Film scanner" would be more accurate in my opinion, because these > devices usually can handle slides, negative strips, and spooled film. > > Is there a film scanner with automated frame selection? On the ones I > know you have to

[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

2002-01-28 Thread Major A
> "Film scanner" would be more accurate in my opinion, because these > devices usually can handle slides, negative strips, and spooled film. > > Is there a film scanner with automated frame selection? On the ones I > know you have to manually position a tab on the film strip holder. Yes: all newe

[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

2002-01-28 Thread Ulrich Deiters
"Film scanner" would be more accurate in my opinion, because these devices usually can handle slides, negative strips, and spooled film. Is there a film scanner with automated frame selection? On the ones I know you have to manually position a tab on the film strip holder. Regards, Ulrich Deiter

[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

2002-01-28 Thread Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida
On Monday 28 January 2002 09:43, Ulrich Deiters wrote: > "Film scanner" would be more accurate in my opinion, because these > devices usually can handle slides, negative strips, and spooled film. > > Is there a film scanner with automated frame selection? On the ones I > know you have to manually p

[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

2002-01-28 Thread Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida
Hello, If I understand correctly the summary is: - use dev->sane.type = "film scanner"; - suggest to the frontends adding a button-type option "Query scan-information from scanner"; - the options allow the backend to recognise what the scanner can do; - prepare for sane2 a way to automatically i

[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

2002-01-27 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:52:23AM +, Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida wrote: > They can, probably I am wrong when I speak about the api, but my concern is > that life may be easier if reasonable, common options are chosen before > implementation. Perhaps what I want is to propose new "wel

[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

2002-01-27 Thread Major A
Henning, > That's right. Currently there is no well known type for film/slide scanners > so I think we can add this in the standard. > > Are both names valid or should one of them be chosen? I mean: are > these only different names or is this different hardware? Can the > backend authors agree on

[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

2002-01-25 Thread Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida
On Thursday 24 January 2002 19:54, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > >. > > > > scanimage -frame 3 > > Does this mean "move to frame 3 and then scan an image" or just "move > to frame 3"? > As far as I understand it is "move to frame 3 and then scan an image" > .. > > Looks like all th

[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

2002-01-24 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:05:50AM +, Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida wrote: > I have been looking at the "best way" to control film holder movement. As far > as I could tell in 1.0.6 no backend was supporting this (at least the > coolscan and the canon fs didn't). > > Today I had a loo

[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

2002-01-24 Thread Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida
Hello I have been looking at the "best way" to control film holder movement. As far as I could tell in 1.0.6 no backend was supporting this (at least the coolscan and the canon fs didn't). Today I had a look at the coolscan2 project. It allows an option -frame as in: scanimage -frame 3 My pr