# RE: SANE API & file format

From: shailendra mehta (shailendra.mehta@tatainfotech.com)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 20:32:35 PDT

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  Hi all

  But sirs,
  could you please give answer to my earlier question?
  I have undergone all the mails related to this topic but
  my impression is that sane-1 doesn't support storage in
  specific file format.Is it true? If so give me some guidelines
  what to do.

  Thanks & regards
  --Shailendra Mehta

  Mick Barry wrote:
  >
  > Oliver,
  >
  > But if it was compulsary for a b/e to support the current transfer
  > mechanism then couldn't the f/e simply fall back to using this method if
  > it didn't support other image encodings.
  >

  The frontend or the backend has to be able to uncompress the compressed
  image
  format to do a preview.

  If we do the transformation in the frontend, we have to change
  - several frontends
  - the sane standard

  If we do the transformation in the backend, only the relevant backend
  has to include a transformation. The sane standard can keep the same.

  So I think it is compulsary to
  - include the transformation (uncompression) in the backend for sane-1
  - add support for new file formats to sane-2

  Bye
  Oliver

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