Re: SANE V2

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:06:56 -0700

becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de said:
> 1. Medium-Old frontends that do not know format xxx together with a
> driver that does. Those frontends cannot do anything reasonable with
> the data the driver offers in format xxx.

... and won't get it because they don't ask for it.

The driver should have the smarts to map i.e. JFIF to RGB by
decompressing if it must. Or RGBA to RGB by shaving off the
alpha channel.

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