# Re: Star Office and scanner

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:54:42 -0700

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>>>>> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:33:56 +0000, Rob Fargher <fargher@POBoxes.com> said:

Rob> I don't know that StarOffice is using Sane. I leapt to that
Rob> conclusion, I'm afraid. However, if it makes any difference,
Rob> the scanning frontend identifies my scanner as
Rob> "umax:/dev/scanner" just as xsane does. Is this format generic
Rob> or unique to SANE?

That does look like SANE. ;-)

What does the frontend look like? From what you're saying, it's
neither xsane nor xscanimage. If so, is it a full-blown frontend that
adapts to the options available in the backend?

Rob> As for the TWAIN, StarOffice was ported to Linux. I think
Rob> that OS/2 might have been the native platform (not that OS/2
Rob> has much in the way of TWAIN). I was thinking that TWAIN may
Rob> simply be StarOffices internal default reference to the scanner
Rob> driver, irrespective of platform.

Quite possible. But very confusing. How is a Linux user supposed to
know what TWAIN is?? ;-))

--david

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