Hi,
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:30:47AM +0530, shailendra mehta wrote:
> I am using the default available pnm backend & I have modified source code
> of scanimage.c available in the frontend
> directory of sane-1.0.3.
> The input document set is a ppm file of size 1.9 MB
> It gives error at following place in the source code:
>
> status = sane_start (device);
> if (status != SANE_STATUS_GOOD)
> {
> fprintf (stderr, "%s: sane_start: %s\n",
> prog_name, sane_strstatus (status));
> goto cleanup;
> }
>
> & the error is
> prog_name: sane_start Invalid argument.
That's the error returned by the pnm backend when sane_start() was
called.
> That means "status" value is unknown to sane_strstatus().
No. That means that the backend returned SANE_STATUS_INVAL. In your
case that probably means that the pnm file couldn't be read for some
reason. When sane_strstatus() get's an unknown error, it would return
"Unknown SANE status code %d". SANE_STATUS_INVAL usually menas that
some sort of input or parameter is invalid or that an error happened
that couldn't be expressed better with a different error code.
> If the input file is of lower sized(300 KB) it works well.
> But if I change it to new one with 1.9 MB then above problem occurs.
>
> Can anybody tell why this happens?
Some ideas: You didn't use the correct path or filename. The pnm was
somehow corrupted. The pnm didn't contain raw pnm data (e.g. ascii data).
Maybe you get more information with SANE_DEBUG_PNM=255 set.
> Is it bcos of the huge memory requirement? If so what r the limits?How to
> set those limits?
No limits as far as I know. I have just "scanned" a pnm image of 15 MB. No
problems. I don't remember however, if there was a bug in 1.0.3, so
maybe you want to look into the current ChangeLog and update to 1.0.4
or a current snapshot.
> & if this is only for pnm device , Can actual scanner(say hp5300 c) give a
> problem?
I don't think so.
Bye,
Henning
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