Re: New HP backend

Hugo van der Kooij (hvdkooij@caiw.nl)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 23:34:07 +0200 (MET DST)

On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Pkirchg wrote:

> the newhp-backend of Geoffrey T. Dairiki is now available in a
> modified version. Support for the HP Photosmart Photoscanner has
> been added. Geoffrey acknowledged further work on his backend
> as long as noone has to pay for the code. I think the usual
> licence notices in the current hp-backend will do that.
> Therefore these notices have also been added to his sources.
>
> Please see
>
> http://members.aol.com/pkirchg
>
> or
>
> ftp://members.aol.com/pkirchg/pub/sane
>
> for more information. Sources and a patch for the configure and
> makefiles of SANE 0.71 are available there.
> After installation you will have a new backend called xhp.
> Please test the backend with different HP-scanners.
>
> Enhancements against the hp-backend:
> - Selectable options depend on active scanner model
> - Custom gamma table
> - options to select color matrix / scan speed / smoothing / calibration
> mirroring

Well I fixed a bit in the patch.xhp file.

The old line was:

+PRELOADABLE_BACKENDS = $(SUBDIR_BACKENDS) $(LOCAL_BACKEND)

Which should be:

+PRELOADABLE_BACKENDS = $(SUBDIR_BACKENDS) $(LOCAL_BACKENDS)

and things go much better when compiling a new version.

Hugo.

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