[sane-devel] Lexmark X1100 backend available

[Fred Odendaal]

Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 03:13:37PM -0400, Fred Odendaal wrote:
>  
>
>>>Does this scanner only scan these fixed sizes? So there is no way to
>>>select freely the size?
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>That is correct. Since I developed it from usb log files of the Windows 
>>driver I copied the way it handles sizes.
>>    
>>
>
>And in the Windows driver there is no way to freely select a size? And
>no way to change to "European" sizes?
>  
>
Yah, I new I'd get flack about that. The Windows driver does support 
"European" sizes, but that would mean twice the number of scans to log 
as I had. I thought I would start with the "US" sizes even though in 
Canada we are quite familiar with "European" sizes. ;-)

I do plan to add support for "European" sizes or make the size freely 
selectable. I've also been toying with integrating my backend with the 
rts88xx external backend, which has a freely selectable size.

>I understand that it's a bit of work to find out how the size is
>encoded but usually the scanners use pixels at some fixed resolution
>(or similar) to set the window.
>  
>
Currently, I use the size to set the window so having a freely 
selectable range wouldn't be much of a stretch. However, the motion of 
the scan head is jerky at some sizes so I don't think I have it fully 
figured out yet.

>Bye,
>  Henning
>
>  
>
regards,
Fred
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