The latest release, sane-0.73, is finally available. You can find it
in the usual places, including:
ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/sane/sane-0.73.tar.gz
For a list of mirrors, see http://www.mostang.com/sane/source.html
(note that it may take a couple of hours before the mirrors pick the
new version up).
What's new? A bunch of things:
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* Backend libraries are now installed in $(libdir)/sane (/usr/local/lib/sane/,
by default).
* Updated Microtek backend (Matto Marjanovic):
- ScanMaker 600ZS, Agfa Arcus II, StudioScan, and StudioScan II
now supported (or recognized, at least ;-).
- Fixed 3-pass scanning.
- Various bug-fixes (see ChangeLog for details).
* New Microtek2 backend (Bernd Schroeder)
This backend supports the ScanMaker 630 and possibly other newer scanners
that are not supported by the "old" Microtek backend.
Additional info by Bernd:
This is the very first release of this backend, so consider this
software to be in alpha state. The backend was developed on a Pentium
(60 Mhz) with Linux 2.0.29 and a ScanMaker 630 attached to the
Adaptec AHA1505E that shipped with the scanner. As frontend
xscanimage was used. It is intended to work with other models, too,
but there are no experiences yet.
The following options are supported:
- 8-bit color, 8-bit grayscale, halftone and lineart scans.
- brightness, contrast, shadow, midtone and highlight control
- scalar gamma correction.
Options that are not yet supported include:
- 3-pass scanners
- more than 8 bit per color output data. Provisions are made here
and there in the code, to support more than 8 bit, but that's
uncomplete.
* configure --disable-static should now work as expected.
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I think I tested things fairly well both on Linux/Alpha and Linux/x86
using the Mustek scanner and the color QuickCam that I have, but since
there were some non-trivial changes in the install process and in the
SCSI-code, it wouldn't surprise me if a few minor bugs crept in. If
so, please let me know. By the same token, if you build SANE for a
platform whose info is not current in the table at
http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-support.html, please send me the
necessary info so I can update the relevant entry.
Note that not all backend configuration files take advantage of the
new device-naming scheme yet (scsi VENDOR...). This is because i
haven't heard yet whether things work for those backends as expected.
If you do test this, please send me an updated .conf file.
Thanks to everybody who contributed new code or fixes to this version!
Keep up the good work!
Enjoy,
--david
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