primax: Xsane -- Scan-mode is missing!
Subject:
Re: Xsane -- Scan-mode is missing!
From:
Christian Ordig ####@####.####
Date:
27 Nov 2002 17:55:29 -0000
Message-Id: <20021127184554.B25990@odin.chris.com>
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:04:24PM +0100, James Hatridge wrote:
> in b/w I have to change each picture one at a time.
man convert (after installing imagemagick *g)
> Think on this. As long as I'm doing the scanning myself I'll do it the PIA way
> just because I don't like W$. But the moment I have to pay someone to scan in
> all the pictures (btw it takes me about a day to do all for one issue) Linux
> will be out the door. W$ is just quicker and as an employer I have to count
> pennies. This must change. You as the programmer must make it as easy as
> possible for the user.
we don't MUST anything... you might suggest something or implement it
yourself.
And to quote a little part from the stuff at the beginning of each sourcefile:
"this foo is provided AS IS ... foo ... no warranty ..."
And to say something about UNIX philosophy: "one job one tool" ... and why
should we do the color reduction stuff when there're dozens of tools which can
do it, maybe even better. The data read from the scanner always is RGB, so
scanning "greyscale" wouldn't speedup the scanning process.
You could even use primax_scan for batch scanning and convert to reduce colors ...
everything together in a nice little script written in a programming language
of your choice .-)
Greatings.
--
Christian Ordig
Germany
