Le mercredi 09 d?cembre 2009 ? 16:05 -0800, qm at sonic.net a ?crit : > > So let me know if I understand clearly: > > > > - MX330 works with the pixma backend. It was not yet declared in Sane > > 1.0.20, but is declared in Sane git for a while now, with the proper usb > > pid. If you install Sane git, MX330 should work out of the box. > > No issue for MX330 on that side, I'll update the docs and supported > > devices list for MX330. > > I wondered about that. I didn't see git. Sorry, and yes, that is good. Thx > > > - There's an error with scanimage/pixma backend when setting explicitly > > -x or -y options to "auto". This is the same for all pixma devices, so > > probably something the pixma backend rejects for now, and that needs to > > be checked. > > Yes, but as has been discussed already by now, we're not sure if those > features are actually supported, and some seem to be sure they are not. > The confusion comes in because the Microsoft XP MX330-packaged scanning > software does do autodetect of a sort (when you specify "picture", it > takes all picture-looking things and makes a seperate cropped file for > each, and does a pretty darn good job of it without cutting too much or > too little), so presumably that's software driven by the program in the > computer, not in the scanner/multifunction device. Yep, that's probably performed by the Canon software, roughly equivalent to a Sane frontend. Remember that you can use Gimp with Sane, scan from Gimp, then use Gimp's powerful tools to process your images as desired. > > > > > Is there any other point I would have missed ? > > No, apparently the documentation was more outdated than git, so we're good > once that's done. If I had known this existed back in the summer, I would > have had many more months of not having to run VMWARE with XP in it, > crashing my computer so much ... Doc in 1.0.20 was reflecting the pixma backend state at that time. Each time a new device is added, documentation is (normally) updated accordingly. Good idea, I'll add a few words in the pixma man page, so as to invite people to install the git version in case of trouble with a new model.
Nicolas
