[sane-devel] Problem building on OSX

abel deuring a.deuring@satzbau-gmbh.de
Sat, 21 Jun 2003 02:12:34 +0200


Dino Tang wrote:

> - CANON IX-06015C ( similar to CanoScan 600 ) in SCSI mode
> * Does not support tiff format! ( --format=tiff ).  I can only get image 
> back in pnm format.  --format=tiff returned bad argument error.  This 
> seems like a problem of the canon backend.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.

The backends have no idea about image formats except the sane-internal 
"format", so it is unlikely that this is a problem of the Canon backend. 
Does scanimage --format=tiff works with other scanners and the same Sane 
installation?

Abel