[sane-devel] Well known option consensus

[m. allan noah]

On 1/22/07, Étienne Bersac <bersace03 at laposte.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > But back to the problem I have/had with Etienne's suggstion for the
> > "relations" between page size and scan window coordinates: It does
> > not make much sense to allow to set a scan window in overscan mode:
> > The backend should calculate the scan window settings automatically
> > from the page size, and disable the options tl-x, tl-y, br-x, br-y.
>
> No ! If a user want to scan only a portion of the paper, he must be able
> to set scan area, but as long as there is no scan surface, we use paper
> size as scan surface. That make sense !

you missed the point here. we are talking about an overscan option, which
causes the scanner to add space all around the scan, such that the back-
ground shows thru.

but i think a person might want to overscan and still have only a
small area of the page (one of the corners?) i think i can work this
out, and still be compatible with the text of our suggestion.

allan

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