Re: [sane-devel] pixma backend: -x/y auto advertised but not available / how to crop?

2017-04-28 Thread m. allan noah
That 'auto' string is put there by scanimage, when it finds an option with the SANE_CAP_AUTOMATIC capability set. Unfortunately, scanimage has some special handling for the x/y/t/l parameters. It appears that -l and -t will properly parse the 'auto' string, but -x and -y will not. This is a bug in

Re: [sane-devel] adding a timeout for the scanner lamp

2017-04-28 Thread Fred 1
ok,thanks thats really good advice cheers On 29/04/17 01:34, m. allan noah wrote: The driver (we call them backends) is the only part of sane that knows the protocol the scanner speaks. So, the backend would have to be called to perform this task. As an alternative, perhaps the frontend

Re: [sane-devel] adding a timeout for the scanner lamp

2017-04-28 Thread m. allan noah
The driver (we call them backends) is the only part of sane that knows the protocol the scanner speaks. So, the backend would have to be called to perform this task. As an alternative, perhaps the frontend (xsane in this case) could close the scanner when it is idle, and re-open it when the user

Re: [sane-devel] adding a timeout for the scanner lamp

2017-04-28 Thread m. allan noah
Depends on which scanner you are talking about, which you did not say. allan On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Fred 1 wrote: > i'm not quite familiar with the code yet, but say i want to add a timeout > thingy for the scanner lamp, > > normally the lamp turns off when you

Re: [sane-devel] sane-backends release 1.0.26 schedule

2017-04-28 Thread m. allan noah
You can send translations at any time, up to the day of the release. allan On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Yuri Chornoivan wrote: > п'ятниця, 28-кві-2017 08:04:55 m. allan noah написано: >> Ok folks, it's time to get another sane-backends release out the door. >> >> Olaf has

Re: [sane-devel] sane-backends release 1.0.26 schedule

2017-04-28 Thread Yuri Chornoivan
п'ятниця, 28-кві-2017 08:04:55 m. allan noah написано: > Ok folks, it's time to get another sane-backends release out the door. > > Olaf has done a good job of cleaning up our contributors list and > curating the bug tracker. However, there are a handful of patches in > the bug tracker that could

Re: [sane-devel] [PATCH] Include physical resolution (pHYs section) in PNG output.

2017-04-28 Thread Aaron Muir Hamilton
Pleased to make your acquaintance, Olaf. Thank you for reviewing the patches and taking them upstream, I have an equivalent patch for JPEG output on the boil. Not to put you on the spot, but it seems like a lot of time has passed since the last release was tagged, despite there apparently being