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<h1>Re: xsane-0.31 available</h1>
<b>Ewald R. de Wit</b> (<a href="mailto:ewald@pobox.com"><i>ewald@pobox.com</i></a>)<br>
<i>Tue, 3 Aug 1999 02:56:40 +0200</i>
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Oliver Rauch (<a href="mailto:oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE">oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</a>) wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; the idea of the infrared-channel of the slide scanners is comparable</i><br>
<i>&gt; to the alpha channel. It is to detect dust and things like that to</i><br>
<i>&gt; identify the transparency of the slide.</i><br>
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Well I hope the name RGBI will be used in a new SANE standard. There<br>
is a vague analogy between the IR and the alpha channel but this<br>
doesn't warrent to call them 'comparable', let alone to use their<br>
names interchangebly.<br>
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<i>&gt; Of course we could add an IR and an UV channel and thousands of other</i><br>
<i>&gt; channels, but then somone should go and define image file formats that do</i><br>
<i>&gt; suppurt such data.</i><br>
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What image file formats do or do not exist has actually got nothing to<br>
do with the topic at hand. SANE is only concerned with the data flow<br>
between scanner, backend, frontend and potentially something<br>
in between. It is of no concern to SANE how the data is stored on file.<br>
Besides, perhaps a future frontend will know how to process these<br>
thousends of data channels to export only 3 neatly corrected RGB channels<br>
(hyperscanning comes to mind, where the full spectrum for each pixel<br>
is measured).<br>
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You don't seem to have addressed my concerns, namely that your name<br>
change is confusing to people and an obsticle to future additions of<br>
functionality.<br>
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