[sane-devel] test backend: 1 bit RGB data for grid pattern
David Mosberger-Tang
David.Mosberger@acm.org
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:16:15 -0700
>>>>> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:12:27 +0200, Oliver Rauch <oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de> said:
Oliver> abel deuring schrieb:
>> Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
>> >
>> > The easiest way would be to > forbid 1 bit RGB in the standard
>> :-)
>>
>> that would indeed be a convenient alternative.
Oliver> I think that makes sense. When a backend really does
Oliver> support this then it can send it as 8 bit rgb image.
Do we know for a fact that there are no high-speed devices out there
that produce, say, dithered 1-bit data? If not, inflating the storage
and bandwidth requirements for such devices by a factor of 8 seems
like a non-trivial issue.
--david