Re: Just some ideas

[Andreas Kostyrka <andreas ag or at>]

On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, sun wrote:

> Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Kenth "daleak" Christiansen wrote:
> 
> > > I think that there should be a TWAIN Scanner module included in gnome. This way
> > > the apps that need scanner support can link to this module.
> > I presume you mean SANE scanner module? TWAIN is Windows only software
> > API.
> 
> <glancing at mac laptop with adobe photoshop and color-it, both with
> twain-compliant scanner interfaces> it is not.
Sure it is ;) Obviously, some one had the idea to implement a lookalike
API for Macs. So now we have $TWAIN_Windoof$ and $TWAIN_Mac$. You still
can't use a Mac Scanner that is TWAIN compatible without a Windows TWAIN
driver.

Andreas