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<title>sane-devel: [ANNOUNCE] New backend for Abaton scanners</title>
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<h1>[ANNOUNCE] New backend for Abaton scanners</h1>
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<b>David Huggins-Daines</b> (<a href="mailto:bn711@freenet.carleton.ca"><i>bn711@freenet.carleton.ca</i></a>)<br>
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<i>Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:22:26 -0500</i>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0145.html">David Campbell: "Re: Scanner question"</a>
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Abaton made several models of scanners in the late '80s and early '90s<br>
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before they went out of business. Everex, the parent company of Abaton,<br>
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still keeps drivers around on their FTP site, but they are unsupported,<br>
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and Macintosh-only, as far as I can tell.<br>
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Anyway, I happen to own one of them, and since I wanted to be able to<br>
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acquire images without having to use the MacOS and accompanying non-free<br>
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software, I decided that it was time to roll up my sleeves, install<br>
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MacsBug, and start reverse-engineering the sucker so that I could use<br>
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it with the GIMP on my Linux box.<br>
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Well, after some late-night hacking sessions, I've got a working SANE<br>
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backend for at least one model of Abaton flatbed scanner.<br>
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The code (abaton.c and abaton.h) is at <a href="http://www.debian.org/~dhd/sane/">http://www.debian.org/~dhd/sane/</a>.<br>
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You'll have to move it into the backends/ directory in the SANE source<br>
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tree, add "abaton" to the PRELOADABLE_BACKENDS variable in Makefile.in,<br>
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along with these two dependencies further down:<br>
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libsane-abaton.la: ../sanei/sanei_constrain_value.lo<br>
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libsane-abaton.la: ../sanei/sanei_scsi.lo<br>
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Then re-run configure, make, ane make install... Probably also add it to<br>
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/usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf, as well.<br>
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Since there is no programming information available, I can't affirm that<br>
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this backend will work on any models other than the 300/GS (which is the<br>
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one I own) at the moment. It looks as if the interface is the same for<br>
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all of the ones supported by the particular Mac driver I've got, which<br>
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includes 300/S, the 300/GS, and maybe another one, so you probably won't<br>
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crash the SCSI bus if you use it with one of them, but you'll get "Operation<br>
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not supported" errors if you try to scan in grayscale or halftone modes.<br>
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If anyone has one of the other Abaton scanners, and would like to see it<br>
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become supported by this backend, please contact me. In particular, I'm<br>
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looking for people with the color models, since they're likely to be more<br>
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different from the 300/GS than the 300/S is.<br>
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Cheers<br>
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P.S. How do I go about getting it included in the SANE distribution?<br>
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David Huggins-Daines - <a href="mailto:bn711@freenet.carleton.ca">bn711@freenet.carleton.ca</a>
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