# Lineart with xsane/mustek (Was: Patch for sane.tex (image polarit y))

From: Collins, Martin (martin.collins@sage.com)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 03:48:17 PDT

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  Nick Lamb [mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk] wrote
  >
  > We're all talking about 1bit RGB. Like 1bit of Red, 1bit of
  > Green, 1bit of Blue. So 1 bit per sample, but 3 bits per pixel.
  > Got a use for that?

  Can't think of one off the top of my head :¬)

  > > 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.
  >
  > Looks like an XSane bug, if the A3 Pro actually supports 1bit lineart
  > Did XSane let you choose binary PBM (that's what you want) ?

  I just used the default pnm filetype, I was under the impression that
  pnm covered binary, grey or colour as appropriate. I will try specifying
  pbm.

  Thanks
  Martin

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