2002-11-29 20:15:39 +00:00
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.TH sane-pint 5 "13 May 1998" "@PACKAGEVERSION@" "SANE Scanner Access Now Easy"
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1999-08-09 18:06:01 +00:00
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.IX sane-pint
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.SH NAME
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sane-pint \- SANE backend for scanners that use the PINT device driver
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B sane-pint
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library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that
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provides generic access to hand-held and flatbed scanners using the
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PINT (PINT Is Not Twain) device driver. The PINT driver is being
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actively developed on the OpenBSD platform, and has been ported to a
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few other *nix-like operating systems.
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.PP
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PINT is designed to provide an
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.BR ioctl (2)
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interface to many different scanner types. However, this backend has
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only been tested with flatbed single-pass scanners, and more work will
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probably be required to get it to use other scanner types
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successfully.
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.PP
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If have successfully used the PINT driver with your scanner, but it
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does not work using this SANE backend, please let us know. To do
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this, send a mail with the relevant information for your scanner to
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2005-11-24 20:17:43 +00:00
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.IR sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org .
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Have a look at http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html concerning subscription
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2001-10-09 19:30:58 +00:00
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to sane-devel.
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.SH "DEVICE NAMES"
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This backend expects device names of the form:
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.PP
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.RS
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.I special
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.RE
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.PP
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Where
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.I special
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is the UNIX path-name for the special device that corresponds to the
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scanner. The special device name must be a PINT device or a symlink
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to such a device. For example, under NetBSD or OpenBSD, such a device
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name could be
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.I /dev/ss0
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or
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.IR /dev/scan0 .
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.SH CONFIGURATION
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The contents of the
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.IR pint.conf .
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file is a list of device names that correspond to PINT
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scanners. Empty lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are
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ignored. A sample configuration file is shown below:
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.PP
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.RS
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/dev/scanner
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.br
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# this is a comment
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.br
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/dev/ss1
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.RE
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.SH FILES
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.TP
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.I @CONFIGDIR@/pint.conf
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The backend configuration file (see also description of
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.B SANE_CONFIG_DIR
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below).
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.TP
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.I @LIBDIR@/libsane-pint.a
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The static library implementing this backend.
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.TP
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.I @LIBDIR@/libsane-pint.so
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The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that
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support dynamic loading).
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.SH ENVIRONMENT
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.TP
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.B SANE_CONFIG_DIR
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This environment variable specifies the list of directories that may
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contain the configuration file. Under UNIX, the directories are
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separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are separated by a
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semi-colon (`;'). If this variable is not set, the configuration file
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is searched in two default directories: first, the current working
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directory (".") and then in @CONFIGDIR@. If the value of the
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environment variable ends with the directory separator character, then
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the default directories are searched after the explicitly specified
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directories. For example, setting
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.B SANE_CONFIG_DIR
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to "/tmp/config:" would result in directories "tmp/config", ".", and
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"@CONFIGDIR@" being searched (in this order).
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.TP
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.B SANE_DEBUG_PINT
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If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this
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environment variable controls the debug level for this backend. E.g.,
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a value of 128 requests all debug output to be printed. Smaller
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levels reduce verbosity.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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sane(7)
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1999-08-09 18:06:01 +00:00
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.SH AUTHOR
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Gordon Matzigkeit, adapted from existing backends written by David
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Mosberger.
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.SH BUGS
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There are minor roundoff errors when adjusting the ranges, since
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PINT uses units of 1/1200 of an inch, and SANE normally uses
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millimeters. Symptoms of these errors are skewed images. This should
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really be fixed (no pun intended) as soon as possible, but I just
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don't know/care enough about fixed-point representation and roundoff
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errors to do this correctly. Workaround: use inches as the scanning
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unit, and everything usually works fine.
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The PINT 0.5e interface does not provide a way to determine valid
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ranges for DPI, modes, and scan sizes. So, the SANE backend queries
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the PINT device, and dynamically discovers valid ranges by doing a
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binary search. This means that the driver takes longer to initialize
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than seems necessary.
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Resetting the scanner does not seem to work (at least not on my HP
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ScanJet 4p). For that reason, the driver sends a SCIOCRESTART, then
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gobbles up any remaining input until it hits EOF.
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Not all of the scanners have been identified (i.e. whether they are
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flatbed or handheld).
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X and Y resolutions are assumed to be the same.
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No testing has been done on three-pass or handheld scanners, or with
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Automatic Document Feeder support.
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