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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Steve Underwood (<A HREF="mailto:steveu@coppice.org?Subject=Re:%20SnapScan%20Backend&In-Reply-To=&lt;39BC7D67.E68C63B0@coppice.org&gt;"><EM>steveu@coppice.org</EM></A>)<BR>
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Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
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<P><EM>&gt; [Steve Underwood]
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<EM>&gt; &gt; Ooh, I wouldn't trust that guy with such an important task. I know
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; &gt; him well, and consider him a pretty unreliable fellow. Not just
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; &gt; that, but he only has one model of Acer scanner (a 610plus), so he
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<EM>&gt; &gt; isn't in the ideal position to support the range of models which the
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<EM>&gt; &gt; SnapScan backend handles. Add to that a hostile vendor, and its not
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<EM>&gt; &gt; a nice job for him.
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<EM>&gt;
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<EM>&gt; Well, I'm sure he will do better then no maintainer at all. At least
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<EM>&gt; he got one scanner available. :-)
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<EM>&gt; Letting the code rot and eventually throw it away sounds like such a
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<EM>&gt; bad alternative.
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<P>This is a backend that certainly should not rot. The new Acer 640's are
<BR>
excellent value for money, and its a real shame the company's attitude
<BR>
sucks so much. Some good current Agfa scanners also depend on this backend.
<BR>
Its key problem is that so many similar, but not quite the same, scanners
<BR>
depend on it. I think that may make it one of the tougher backends to
<BR>
support. I think that other backends supporting a large range of scanners
<BR>
have some (at least minimal) vendor support.
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<P>When my May update to the SnapScan backend escaped^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H was
<BR>
released I heard from a few people having problems with different models,
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but they didn't follow through with enough info to sort those problems out.
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Some of them were having problems with models which others said worked OK.
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That probably means they had different host environments, different
<BR>
firmware revisions, or such like. Without solid follow up from those having
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problems its rather demoralising trying to trace the cause.
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<P>Steve
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