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<title>sane-devel: sane-0.73 available</title>
<h1>sane-0.73 available</h1>
<b>David Mosberger-Tang</b> (<a href="mailto:David.Mosberger@acm.org"><i>David.Mosberger@acm.org</i></a>)<br>
<i>Sat, 16 May 1998 00:17:26 -0700</i>
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Hi everyone,<br>
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The latest release, sane-0.73, is finally available. You can find it<br>
in the usual places, including:<br>
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<a href="ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/sane/sane-0.73.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/sane/sane-0.73.tar.gz</a><br>
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For a list of mirrors, see <a href="http://www.mostang.com/sane/source.html">http://www.mostang.com/sane/source.html</a><br>
(note that it may take a couple of hours before the mirrors pick the<br>
new version up).<br>
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What's new? A bunch of things:<br>
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* Backend libraries are now installed in $(libdir)/sane (/usr/local/lib/sane/,<br>
by default).<br>
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* Updated Microtek backend (Matto Marjanovic):<br>
- ScanMaker 600ZS, Agfa Arcus II, StudioScan, and StudioScan II<br>
now supported (or recognized, at least ;-).<br>
- Fixed 3-pass scanning.<br>
- Various bug-fixes (see ChangeLog for details).<br>
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* New Microtek2 backend (Bernd Schroeder)<br>
This backend supports the ScanMaker 630 and possibly other newer scanners<br>
that are not supported by the "old" Microtek backend.<br>
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Additional info by Bernd:<br>
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This is the very first release of this backend, so consider this<br>
software to be in alpha state. The backend was developed on a Pentium<br>
(60 Mhz) with Linux 2.0.29 and a ScanMaker 630 attached to the<br>
Adaptec AHA1505E that shipped with the scanner. As frontend<br>
xscanimage was used. It is intended to work with other models, too,<br>
but there are no experiences yet.<br>
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The following options are supported:<br>
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- 8-bit color, 8-bit grayscale, halftone and lineart scans.<br>
- brightness, contrast, shadow, midtone and highlight control<br>
- scalar gamma correction.<br>
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Options that are not yet supported include:<br>
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- 3-pass scanners<br>
- more than 8 bit per color output data. Provisions are made here<br>
and there in the code, to support more than 8 bit, but that's<br>
uncomplete.<br>
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* configure --disable-static should now work as expected.<br>
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I think I tested things fairly well both on Linux/Alpha and Linux/x86<br>
using the Mustek scanner and the color QuickCam that I have, but since<br>
there were some non-trivial changes in the install process and in the<br>
SCSI-code, it wouldn't surprise me if a few minor bugs crept in. If<br>
so, please let me know. By the same token, if you build SANE for a<br>
platform whose info is not current in the table at<br>
<a href="http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-support.html">http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-support.html</a>, please send me the<br>
necessary info so I can update the relevant entry.<br>
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Note that not all backend configuration files take advantage of the<br>
new device-naming scheme yet (scsi VENDOR...). This is because i<br>
haven't heard yet whether things work for those backends as expected.<br>
If you do test this, please send me an updated .conf file.<br>
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Thanks to everybody who contributed new code or fixes to this version!<br>
Keep up the good work!<br>
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Enjoy,<br>
<p>
--david<br>
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