Scan To, Was: Re: [hpoj-devel] no luck with USB

[Allen B. <ba...@lo...>]

Michel Hoche-Mong wrote:
> > What's the plan for dealing with the "Scan To" feature of the G-series?
> At the moment I'm trying to get definitive information on how to access it.
>
>From what little I know about it currently, under Windows it allows the user
> to select which application (Word, PageMaker, Photoshop, etc.) should receive
> the scan, and if the peripheral is connected directly to a LAN (with a
> JetDirect print server), it allows the user to select which client PC (but
> not which application on that PC) should receive the scan.  I think the list
> is limited to a maximum of 20 entries in either scenario.
> 
> However, I'm not quite sure what to do with it in a multi-user non-Windows
> environment such as Linux, since scanning pretty much revolves around SANE.
> For that reason I don't think it's very high priority, but I'm certainly
> open to suggestions on how to take advantage of it under Linux.  Once I
> manage to get ahold of the specs for it I'll check to see whether those
> suggestions are possible.
> 

Of course, I'd like to press the 'Scan To' button and see 'The GIMP'
appear on the LCD panel and then press 'START SCAN' and have The GIMP
start up (via ptal-mlcd?) and read the scanned image. Same for
'StarOffice'. I think I understand, though, why this might be
problematic on a multiuser machine. Does ptal-mlcd implement any kind of
security on it's socket? You might limit this functionality to whomever
is logged on to X, though there might be cases where you'd like to scan
to a batch job, too. Perhaps this is a job for a PAM module, treat it as
though the scanner was logging in?

Allen