Sorry Shailendra ,
The answer to your question is that SANE does not support storage of
specific file formats. The image is returned from the scanner in the
format specified in the SANE standard. If you wish to save the image in
another format then you are responsible for handling this.
mick
shailendra mehta wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> But sirs,
> could you please give answer to my earlier question?
> I have undergone all the mails related to this topic but
> my impression is that sane-1 doesn't support storage in
> specific file format.Is it true? If so give me some guidelines
> what to do.
>
> Thanks & regards
> --Shailendra Mehta
>
> Mick Barry wrote:
> >
> > Oliver,
> >
> > But if it was compulsary for a b/e to support the current transfer
> > mechanism then couldn't the f/e simply fall back to using this method if
> > it didn't support other image encodings.
> >
>
> The frontend or the backend has to be able to uncompress the compressed
> image
> format to do a preview.
>
> If we do the transformation in the frontend, we have to change
> - several frontends
> - the sane standard
>
> If we do the transformation in the backend, only the relevant backend
> has to include a transformation. The sane standard can keep the same.
>
> So I think it is compulsary to
> - include the transformation (uncompression) in the backend for sane-1
> - add support for new file formats to sane-2
>
> Bye
> Oliver
>
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