Re: SANE V2

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:57:44 -0700

I have comments.

njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk said:
> I've written up a draft of how I currently think SANE 1.2 / SANE 2
> should look.

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In 3.2.2 Image Transmission you suggest that front ends provide some sort
of means of warning or constraining the user from requesting frame formats
that it does not support. I contend that this is not in general possible
unless optional frame types can be enabled by a well-known option.
Without a well-known option, the front end cannot know (in general)
how to constrain the backend.

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In 4.5.4 Scan area options It might be nice to allow multiple scan
areas for devices that support multiple scan areas per page. I know
of a couple scanners that support such things.

In addition, on scanners we build, each "window" of the page may have a different format (i.e. JFIF for the color and gray, TIFF/G4 for the bitonal) ant it would be nice to specify the frame type within the scan area specification.

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