Re: xsane-0.31 available

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 18:42:59 -0700

ewald@pobox.com said:
> What image file formats do or do not exist has actually got nothing to
> do with the topic at hand. SANE is only concerned with the data flow
> between scanner, backend, frontend and potentially something in
> between. It is of no concern to SANE how the data is stored on file.

I agree.

I would also like to point out that there needs to be more data formats
that include compressed streams, etc. and there needs to be a way for
drivers and applications to negotiate supported formats.

I have many scanners that produce (in firmware) JFIF images and I really
really need to pass them as JFIF to applications that support it. We
are talking about production scanning here, tens to hundreds of images
per minute.

TWAIN and ISIS support this sort of data flow. It matters.

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