Re: Star Office and scanner

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:47:40 -0700

>>>>> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:33:29 +0100 (BST), Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk> said:

Nick> Either way, if this is confirmed, the SANE web site should
Nick> definitely add a pointer (after checking with StarOffice's
Nick> manufacturers) saying "Look! SANE allows office productivity
Nick> packages to work with any supported scanner -- from a single
Nick> common interface"

Do we know for certain that StarOffice uses SANE? I tried this
quickly on my friends laptop but StarOffice failed with "No TWAIN
datasource found" or some such. No scanner was actually attached to
the laptop so I'm not surprised that it didn't work, but the "TWAIN"
part did surprise me.

--david

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