# Re: [Announce] WinSANE 0.1.0.0 Release

Ewald R. de Wit (ewald@pobox.com)
Tue, 11 May 1999 18:08:44 +0200

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Nick Lamb (njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk) wrote:
> One last time - here is the section of the SANE standard which explains
> what you're supposed to do if your sample isn't 8 or 16-bit clean. It
> could probably be explained better, and I'm sure a clarification from
> someone reading would be accepted into a future version, but it's
> already pretty clear what is meant.
>
> ----------
> Valid bit depths are 1, 8, or 16 bits per sample. If a device's
> natural bit depth is something else, it is up to the driver to scale
> the sample values appropriately (e.g., a 4 bit sample could be scaled
> by a factor of four to represent a sample value of depth 8).
> ----------

Ok I see now. Thank you for pointing this out for the last time - it
is actually the first time that the relevant sentence enters my consciousness.

I'll fix the HP backend to comply with the suggested behaviour.

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