[sane-devel] command line gamma value for coolscan2?

Major A andras@users.sourceforge.net
Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:35:36 +0000


> Using xsane, I normally set the Gamma value using the coolscan2
> backend to "3" for all three colors. Looking at "scanimage", I
> cannot find any single setting that seems to handle the same
> option. Am I missing something or is there some doc available
> which describes building the -gamma-table values from a single-
> value setting on the command line?

The gamma value is interpreted by the frontend, which then calculates
a LUT table and passes it on to the scanner. Apparently there is a
tool in sane-backends for generating gamma tables from the command
line for use with scanimage, but I haven't tried it yet.

  Andras

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