[sane-devel] TWAIN 2.0 targetting Linux

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Oct 12 11:12 René Rebe wrote (shortened):
> > Maybe it's time
> > someone works on making TWAIN applications for Linux?
> 
> Why? SANE is the OSS cross platform API for Unix, Unix-a-like
> or even OS/2. 

Of course, but...

> Why should anyone write a Linux application for an API that is
> not yet there, without any driver in sight?

...if manufacturers already have TWAIN applications (drivers,
frontends, whatever) for other operating systems, some of them
will prefer to somehow adapt their code to let it somehow work
with Linux - regardless how proprietary or architecture-specific
or insecure or ugly the code may be - so that they can package
a "Linux driver" into their scanner box.

By the way:
A few days ago I tested a proprietary printer driver from
a manufacturer for a low-level all-in-one device.
I set up a CUPS queue to print into a file but this nice
proprietary driver did't care how the queue was set up.
It simply spits out its printer specific binary stuff directly
on the first USB printer (a real good PostScript printer)
which printed tons of sheets with nonsense characters ;-)

Nevertheless:
Such proprietary crap will happen also for scanners.
And some of the users will complain on the SANE mailing lists
because they do not understand the difference.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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