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<h1>SANE v1.00 is out!</h1>
<b>David Mosberger-Tang</b> (<a href="mailto:David.Mosberger@acm.org"><i>David.Mosberger@acm.org</i></a>)<br>
<i>Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:19:36 -0800</i>
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Well, in theory at least.  In practice, ftp.mostang.com seems to be<br>
down (be easy on the guys at Red Hat---I think they're in the middle<br>
of an office move so these things can happen...).  Since<br>
ftp.mostang.com is down, I uploaded it to tsx-11 and sunsite only.  I<br>
hope they'll show up tomorrow (Sunday Nov 21).<br>
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In any case, in theory there should be three files:<br>
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	1168 Nov 21 20:37 sane-1.00.lsm<br>
	844030 Nov 21 20:38 sane-1.00.tar.gz<br>
	213909 Nov 21 20:37 sane-0.74-1.00.diff.gz<br>
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The relevant part from the NEWS file is appended to this mail.  It's<br>
very long!  Thanks to everybody making contributions and keeping<br>
things up to date!<br>
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In celebration of the 1.00 release, let's all have a virtual beer!<br>
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Prost! ;-))<br>
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	--david<br>
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--------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
New with 1.00:<br>
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* Upgraded to libtool-1.2.<br>
    This reportedly gets SANE to build on Solaris versions with a<br>
    broken printf.<br>
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* saned<br>
    Matching of hostnames is no longer case-sensitive.<br>
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* New Abaton backend (by David Huggins-Daines)<br>
    Supports "Scan 300/GS" and may work with "Scan 300/S" but the<br>
    latter is untested.<br>
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* New Agfa Focus backend (by Karl Anders <20>ygard)<br>
    Supports:<br>
     o AGFA Focus GS               (6 bit gray scale)     (untested)<br>
     o AGFA Focus Lineart          (lineart)              (untested)<br>
     o AGFA Focus II               (8 bit gray scale)     (untested)<br>
     o Siemens S9036               (8 bit gray scale)     (untested)<br>
     o AGFA Focus Color            (24 bit color 3-pass)<br>
     o AGFA Focus Color Plus       (24 bit color 3-pass)<br>
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* New Kodak DC210 still camera backend (by Brian J. Murrell)<br>
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* New Ricoh backend (by Feico Dillema).<br>
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* New HP backend.<br>
  The backend formerly known as "xhp" is now the default HP backend.<br>
  This backend should support HP scanners much better and was<br>
  contributed by Geoffrey Dairiki and Peter Kirchgessner.<br>
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  - Added support for HP 6200C<br>
  - Suppress halftone mode on photosmart (it is not supported)<br>
  - Show calibrate button on photoscanner only for print media<br>
  - Add media selection for photoscanner<br>
  - Cleanup hp_scsi_s structure<br>
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* Updated apple backend (by Milon Firikis).<br>
  Now you should be able to scan from ColorOneScanners (in non color<br>
  modes) and maybe from OneScanners (untested).<br>
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* Updated Artec backend (by Chris Pinkham).<br>
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* Updated Kodak DC25 backend (by Peter Fales).<br>
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* Updated Microtek backend (by Matto Marjanovic).<br>
  - Fix segfault on exit due to unnecessary free() in sane_close().<br>
  - Fix to red channel shift bug (which crept in during rewrite of<br>
    color-handling code). <br>
  - Addition of "patch level" to version codes. <br>
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* Updated Microtek2 backend<br>
  - Added support for ScanMaker 330, ScanMaker 636, ScanMaker E3plus,<br>
    ScanMaker X6 and Phantom 636.<br>
  - Other improvements (this includes support for automatic document feeders<br>
    and transparency adapters, missing option descriptions were added).<br>
  - Updated the manual page.<br>
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* Updated Mustek backend (patches by Andreas Bolsch and Heiko Schroeder)<br>
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  - Heiko's patch should make resolutions &gt;300dpi work for MFS-6000CX.<br>
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  Andreas's patches:<br>
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  - Should work with ScanExpress 6000SP, 12000SP as well as older models<br>
  - Bug with MFS-12000SP corrected (poined out by Daniel Deckers)<br>
  - Bug which caused xscanimage to crash after color preview corrected<br>
  - Improvement(?) in high resolution<br>
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  Important Notes for ScanExpress models:<br>
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  - Resolutions below 60 dpi don't work (firmware problem).<br>
  - Resolutions &gt;300 dpi (6000 SP) or &gt;600 dpi (12000 SP) result in<br>
    different x/y-resolution as 6000 SP and 12000 SP have in fact only<br>
      300 dpi and 600 dpi CCD sensors, respectively.<br>
  - Resolutions &gt;300dpi in color mode sometimes result in corrupted images<br>
    (parts duplicated/shifted *HORIZONTALLY*) depending on hardware<br>
    configuration. Killing all other applications and disabling swap<br>
    (if sufficient physical memory available) may help. <br>
    I added some code which writes to every page of the buffer prior <br>
    to scanning to fool the memory management and scanned a full page<br>
    color scan with 600dpi * 1200dpi. Very slow but image seemed ok<br>
    after pnmscale.  <br>
  - Max. scan area:  0-216mm (hor.), 2.5-294.5mm (ver.)<br>
    The scanners can't scan the first 2.5mm (ver.), so you *MUST*<br>
    specify the scan area according to this restriction!<br>
  - The scanners support only lineart (1 bpp), gray (8 bpp), color (24 bpp).<br>
    Although the scanners have 10 bit (6000 SP) or 12 bit (12000 SP) <br>
    A/D-converters, they can send only 8 bit values to the host.<br>
    The higher resolution may only be used via gamma table.<br>
  - For compatibility only 256 entry gamma tables may be specified, the<br>
    actual gamma table sent to the scanner is linearly interpolated from it.<br>
  - In lineart mode only brightness may be adjusted. <br>
  - Cover open/closed reported only via debug output and ignored otherwise.<br>
  - Use of SCSI card supplied with scanner is *NOT* recommended. (Don't<br>
    forget termination!)<br>
  <br>
* Updated UMAX backend (by Oliver Rauch)<br>
  - added output of umax-backend-version in sane_init<br>
  - added Linotype Hell Jade2 (Vobis ScanBoostar Premium)<br>
    SCSI-ID "LinoHell","Office2" as supported scanner<br>
  - changed base of calculation of scanwidth and scanlegth from<br>
    pixel to resolutionbase (1/300, 1/600 or 1/1200 inch)<br>
  - changed calculation for width in pixels for lineart mode<br>
  - changed selection for calibration mode<br>
  - added inquiry for UMUX UC1200SE<br>
  - corrected 12/36-bit-mode in send_gamma_data and array in umax.h<br>
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* Updated SnapScan backend to v0.5 (by Kevin Charter)<br>
  - bug fixes (Wolfgang, David)<br>
  - addition of threshold control for lineart mode (Mikko)<br>
  - Vuego 310S support (Wolfgang)<br>
  - default scan area now maximal (Kevin)<br>
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