William,
If your interested in testing it against our beta frontend we'd
appreciate the feedback. It'll give us a chance to ensure we're handling
it ok.
Our f/e can be downloaded at http://www.objects.com.au/products/josi,
and you'll need Java and saned to run it.
Mick Barry
Objects Pty Ltd
"William L. Sebok" wrote:
>
> I think that there could be "big vs little endian" issues if one does network
> scanning and the scanner is hung off of a machine with a different byte order
> than the machine running the front end.
>
> The scanner (a Umax 2400S) was attached to a Sparc IPX machine (an old spare
> machine) running Solaris 7. The frontend was xsane 0.72 on a Linux Intel
> machine running Mandrake 7.1. On both machines sane itself had been
> upgraded to version 1.0.4. I ran xsane stand-alone, rather than as a gimp
> plugin. On the xsane "standard options" window I selected a "Bit Depth" of 12.
> I scanned to a png file as that format supports 16 bit data. I viewed the
> image with the gimp as the gimp is able to view 16 bit png's, although it
> converts it to 8 bits internally. The image came out looking like random noise.
> My guess is that I was viewing the bytes of lower significance. I tried this
> with both gimp-1.2.1 and gimp-1.0.4 on both Linux Intel and Sparc Solaris
> machines with the same results. Finally I rescanned the image with the
> xsane 0.72 running on a Sparc Solaris machine (different than the machine with
> the scanner). Again Bit Depth was set to 12 and the png format was used. This
> scan now came out fine.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? Does the sane protocol have provision for
> the case where front and back ends are on machines with different byte orders?
>
> Bill Sebok Computer Software Manager, Univ. of Maryland, Astronomy
> Internet: wls@astro.umd.edu URL: http://www.astro.umd.edu/~wls/
>
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