primax: Xsane -- Scan-mode is missing!
Subject:
Re: Xsane -- Scan-mode is missing!
From:
Andre Herms ####@####.####
Date:
26 Nov 2002 19:03:11 -0000
Message-Id: <200211261956.43091.onjo@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Tuesday 26 November 2002 11:38, James Hatridge wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've had enough time today to go over Xsane. As you all know I asked the
> other day how to do a gray scale scan. No one answered. Well, looking in
> the help files of Xsane it shows a "scanmode" button. But when I run xsane
> the button is missing. Does anyone know what I should do?
>
> Note to Oliver Rauch: I'm running Xsane useing a primax PP scanner the
> "MM-100" model sold by Media Markt in Germany. My system is SuSE 8.1 pro.
>
> Thanks
>
> JIM
The scanmode option is removed from the backend. Indeed the backend cannot
receive grayscale or 1-bit images. The modes were emulated by reducing the
colors. To make the backend slim it was removed.
XSane cannot emulate this, yet.
So the best way is to use gimp with XSane or the xscanimage plugin. This is as
easy as using the pure XSane and you get all the facilities of Gimp for
manipulating the image. This includes some nice options for reducing the
color space.
The emulation code is still there and could easily be activeted. But I think
it is better to have an easy to use driver leave things like color management
to the frontend or graphic program.
Gruss,
Andre
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