Re: Patch for sane.tex (image polarity)

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 10:37:56 PDT

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    "Collins, Martin" wrote:
    >
    > > Henning Meier-Geinitz [mailto:hmg-ml@gmx.de] wrote
    > >
    > > Definitely. If somebody really needs 1-bit color ...
    >
    > I may have got the wrong end of the stick here, are you
    > (and David) suggesting that 1-bit lineart not be supported?
    >
    > When I try lineart (with calibration switched on so it works)
    > with my Mustek A3 Pro I get a grey-scale file. Xsane says
    > the file size will be 1MB as I would expect for 1-bit but
    > the pnm created is 8MB grey.
    >
    > Now, I plan to scan a lot of black & white stuff , so yes,
    > somebody really needs 1-bit color!
    >
    > Martin
    >

    Hi Martin,

    SANE does support 1 bit lineart scans. What we talked about
    has been 1 bit color(RGB) scans.

    XSane also supports 1 bit lineart scans. Looks like a backend problem.

    Bye
    Oliver 

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