# Re: Star Office and scanner

Hugo van der Kooij (hvdkooij@caiw.nl)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:24:49 +0200 (CEST)

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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Nick Lamb wrote:

>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Rob Fargher wrote:
> > I installed StarOffice for Linux recently and was playing around
> > with it. In the drawing component, in one of the pull-down menus was
> > an option for scanning. I clicked on it, not expecting much as I
> > hadn't told StarOffice about my scanner or about Sane.
>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Phillip W Ross wrote:
> > I'm definately impressed! I think Staroffice could use a little
> > bit better documentation. I'm probably not alone on this opinion.
>
> Does anyone know how StarOffice chooses to use SANE -- do they use a
> static collection of backends built in to their proprietary (?) frontend
> or do they use the dynamic linking features of SANE, and pull in the
> libs according to dll.conf? I initially assumed they had re-implemented
> SANE-net but the negative reports from people using a scanner on a
> remote machine with StarOffice suggest otherwise.

If they would support the DLL interface any configuration should work. But
if they were to borrow code from SANE they would make StarOffice a GPL
product. (Not that I would mind. But they propably will.)

Hugo.

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