primax: Xsane -- Scan-mode is missing!
Subject:
Re: Xsane -- Scan-mode is missing!
From:
Christian Ordig ####@####.####
Date:
28 Nov 2002 13:51:54 -0000
Message-Id: <20021128144222.A29901@odin.chris.com>
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:48:10AM +0100, Andre Herms wrote:
> The problem why this is not done yet is not, that I don't want this feature.
> The problem is that I don't want the way it is done before.
> I think, not the backend (primax_scan) but the frontend should support this.
different color modes belong into the backend, but they should really use the
scanner greyscale etc. hardware mode, so scanning becomes faster and not simply
scan full color and reduce in the backend.
> You can compare it with the options for the gamma tables. Before a had options
> for brightness, contrast and gamma. The backend emulated them by modifying
> the gamma tables itself. No this is done by the frontend and has some
> advantages.
with a 24bit scanner this is ok, but with a 30Bit scanner, I would let do
the scanner/backend the stuff of color correction they have access to the real
raw data.
--
Christian Ordig
Germany
