On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:42, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:25:30PM +0100, rob wrote: > > Hi, this seems to fix it:) > > I can now open the tiff with gimp 1.3 and convert it to png with > > convert. Eye of Gnome failed on it but this is probably a bug in it as > > everything else worked. > > > > However the pnm format also fails. Nothing can open the file. Converting > > it to png fails but converting to jpeg works fine. (again xsane can > > create them properly). > > scanimage creates raw (P5/P6) PNM files, XSane uses ASCII files > (P2/P3). So there may be a difference in what your viewers can display. > The PNM format with more than one byte per color is relatively new > (see manpage). E.g. "display" from ImageMagick can show these files.
display can't display the pnm either. > Also there was a bug in scanimage concerning pnm on little endian > computers in 1.0.8 that is fixed in CVS. If you use such a machine, > plese tell us and try the CVS version. I am using a little endian machine so this might well be it but I'm going away for a long weekend now so I wont be able to try CVS untill I get back (probably wendesday). > As a summary: It works for me (at least with the test backend). > > Bye, > Henning > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > -- rob
