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<h1>Re: Star Office and scanner</h1>
<b>Hugo van der Kooij</b> (<a href="mailto:hvdkooij@caiw.nl"><i>hvdkooij@caiw.nl</i></a>)<br>
<i>Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:24:49 +0200 (CEST)</i>
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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Nick Lamb wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Rob Fargher wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; I installed StarOffice for Linux recently and was playing around</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; with it. In the drawing component, in one of the pull-down menus was</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; an option for scanning. I clicked on it, not expecting much as I</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; hadn't told StarOffice about my scanner or about Sane.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Phillip W Ross wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; I'm definately impressed! I think Staroffice could use a little</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; bit better documentation. I'm probably not alone on this opinion.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Does anyone know how StarOffice chooses to use SANE -- do they use a</i><br>
<i>&gt; static collection of backends built in to their proprietary (?) frontend</i><br>
<i>&gt; or do they use the dynamic linking features of SANE, and pull in the</i><br>
<i>&gt; libs according to dll.conf? I initially assumed they had re-implemented</i><br>
<i>&gt; SANE-net but the negative reports from people using a scanner on a</i><br>
<i>&gt; remote machine with StarOffice suggest otherwise.</i><br>
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If they would support the DLL interface any configuration should work. But<br>
if they were to borrow code from SANE they would make StarOffice a GPL<br>
product. (Not that I would mind. But they propably will.)<br>
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Hugo.<br>
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