Force backend support non-blocking mode ? I don't think it's a good idea. These work will be done more easily in frontend than backend. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:42 PM Subject: sane-devel Digest, Vol 16, Issue 34
> Send sane-devel mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of sane-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Neither get_select_fd() nor non-blocking ([email protected]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:51:07 +0100 (CET) > From: [email protected] > Subject: [sane-devel] Neither get_select_fd() nor non-blocking > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > I've realized that backends might not provide neither a file descriptor > for select() nor non-blocking mode. Why is this allowed? I guess this > means that applications, such as xsane, must use a separate thread or > process to read the data? IMHO, this puts a lot of unnecessary burden on > the application programmer. How common is it with backends with neither a > select FD nor non-blocking mode? How about adjusting the standard so that > backends must at least support one of these? > > Regards, > -- > Peter ?.strand ThinLinc Chief Developer > Cendio AB http://www.cendio.se > Teknikringen 3 > 583 30 Link??ping Phone: +46-13-21 46 00 > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > End of sane-devel Digest, Vol 16, Issue 34 > ****************************************** > From [email protected] Tue Oct 31 01:16:55 2006 From: [email protected] (Michael Piotrowski) Date: Tue Oct 31 04:37:04 2006 Subject: [sane-devel] Re: tiff2pdf script or sample In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> (Tom Miller's message of "Mon\, 30 Oct 2006 17\:01\:16 -0500") References: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> On 2006-10-30, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Does any one have any information on how to use tiff2pdf so that it > will combine mulitple files into one file and convert to pdf? tiff2pdf (from libtiff) converts only *one* TIFF file to PDF, so you first use tiffcp to combine your separate images to a multipage TIFF file, e.g., $ tiffcp page*.tiff article.tiff $ tiff2pdf article.pdf HTH -- Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <[email protected]> Public key at <http://www.dynalabs.de/mxp/pubkey.txt>
