Re: [hpoj-devel] fixed xsane crash, working on OJ LX/300 support

[David P. <pa...@rc...>]

Joe Piolunek wrote:
> On Friday 03 May 2002 11:53 pm, PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) wrote:
> > - Fixed libsane-hpoj so xsane doesn't crash when you switch to "Copy" or
> > "Fax" mode.  As recommended by the xsane developer, I changed the geometry
> > options from integers to fixed-precision.
> 
> It works here. PC-controlled copying is a welcome addition. Simply by setting 
> options in xsane, I was able to click "Start" and have a page scanned and 
> printed by the OfficeJet, or scanned by the OffficeJet and fed automatically 
> to the second parallel printer I finally got working with this PC. 

Hi, Joe.  Thanks for the report.  I realize that in this case you were
copying by scanning on your OfficeJet and printing on your laser printer.
Assuming you wanted to print (presumably in color) on your OfficeJet
instead, is xsane+hpijs a viable copying solution, seeing as how this
and a few other models don't support standalone color copying?  I always
figured this would be rather slow, since xsane has to convert the raster
image to PostScript and then ghostscript and hpijs have to convert it
back to rasterized PCL3.  But then again, you're using a brand-new
gigahertz-plus machine and I'm still using my Pentium-133 from over six
years ago.  :-)

BTW, for those of you with OfficeJet LX or 300 series products, I think
I figured out why scanning wasn't working and checked in a change that
should fix the problem.  I tested it on a compressed image that I had
captured from one of these models (I'm not sure which one), but I won't
be able to test it on the actual hardware until I go back to work Monday.
If anybody with these models tries it out before then (hint hint Mark
Purcell:-), then please let me know how it goes and I'll update the
Supported Devices page accordingly.  (Mark: If you do happen to try it
out, then note that I'd prefer that you not make a Debian package out
of the CVS code just yet, but rather wait a bit longer until I've
managed to stabilize things better and am close to releasing 0.90.)

David