Re: SANE API & file format

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 15:12:33 PDT

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    Mick Barry wrote:
    >
    > Oliver,
    >
    > But if it was compulsary for a b/e to support the current transfer
    > mechanism then couldn't the f/e simply fall back to using this method if
    > it didn't support other image encodings.
    >

    The frontend or the backend has to be able to uncompress the compressed image
    format to do a preview.

    If we do the transformation in the frontend, we have to change
    - several frontends
    - the sane standard

    If we do the transformation in the backend, only the relevant backend
    has to include a transformation. The sane standard can keep the same.

    So I think it is compulsary to
    - include the transformation (uncompression) in the backend for sane-1
    - add support for new file formats to sane-2

    Bye
    Oliver 

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