[sane-devel] ICC support - summing up

[m. allan noah]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:53 PM, stef<stef.dev at free.fr> wrote:
> Le lundi 8 juin 2009 21:40:05 Julien BLACHE, vous avez écrit :
>> "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My fingers slipped on the keyboard, so if you get an empty mail before
>> this one... sorry.
>>
>> >> My take on this is that it should be handled out of band and by the
>> >> frontend only. The frontend should have all the information needed to
>> >> determine which ICC profile applies.
>> >
>> > I agree. But in the case of saned, this means each client would need
>> > the ICC profile for the scanner installed locally, or some other
>> > protocol would have to be used to call the server for it.
>>
>> As I wrote already, saned is not for scanning over the Internet on a
>> random scanner thousands of miles away. If you're scanning over the
>> network, you're scanning over YOUR network, which means YOUR Oyranos
>> server is accessible the same way the saned host is accessible at the
>> time the scan is done. I don't see a problem here, really.
>>
>> Worst case the frontend can generate the ICC profile identification
>> and you can retrieve it later on with that.
>>
>> JB.
>
>        Hello,
>
>        if it wasn't for the API, wouldn't be the backend the best place to know
> about a scanning device ICC profile ?

That depends- just what is IN one of these profiles? How is it generated?

allan
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