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Copyright (C) 1999 Craig Setera
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Craig Setera <setera@home.com>
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Updated for Mac OS X support
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Brion Vibber <brion@pobox.com>
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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Based on (at least) the following plug-ins:
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Any suggestions, bug-reports or patches are welcome.
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This plug-in interfaces to the TWAIN support library in order
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to capture images from TWAIN devices directly into GIMP images.
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The plug-in is capable of acquiring the following type of
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- B/W (1 bit images translated to grayscale B/W)
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- Grayscale up to 16 bits per pixel
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- RGB up to 16 bits per sample (24, 30, 36, etc.)
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- Paletted images (both Gray and RGB)
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Should compile and run on both Win32 and Mac OS X 10.3 (possibly
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- Multiple image transfers will hang the plug-in. The current
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configuration compiles with a maximum of single image transfers.
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- On Mac OS X, canceling doesn't always close things out fully.
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- Epson TWAIN driver on Mac OS X crashes the plugin when scanning.
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There are two different versions of the program included, a standard
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version and a version built for debugging. The debugging version is
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a special version capable of capturing the TWAIN datasource data to
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a file for later processing. This feature can be used to create a data
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dump that can be sent to me if for some reason the plug-in fails for
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your TWAIN datasource. The function of the plug-in is controlled by
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the name of the executable file. The plug-in should be placed in your
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plug-ins directory and named as follows:
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twain.exe - This is the standard (non-debugging) version. This file will
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not behave differently if renamed. This version is intended to be used
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unless your TWAIN datasource has some problem.
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gtwain.exe - This is the debugging version of the program shipped along.
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If this program is used as named, it will behave the same as "twain.exe"
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except that the file C:\twain.log will be written. This file is a text
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file with very little information available for debugging.
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dtwain.exe - Renaming "gtwain.exe" to "dtwain.exe" in your plug-ins directory
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will change the behavior of the plug-in. The menu option will be registered
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as "TWAIN Acquire (Dump)..." and will cause the TWAIN acquire operation to
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be dumped to the file "C:\twaincap.bin". This file contains all of the data
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necessary to recreate the capture on another system (such as my machine). The
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image will not be displayed, as it might cause the plug-in to crash making
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the data useless. Instead, a message will be displayed that the image
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information was dumped to a file.
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rtwain.exe - Renaming "gtwain.exe" to "rtwain.exe" in your plug-ins directory
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will change the behavior of the plug-in. The menu option will be registered
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as "TWAIN Acquire (Read)..." and will cause the TWAIN acquire operation to
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read a previously dumped (using dtwain.exe) TWAIN acquire from
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If you find that you are unable to capture data from you datasource (the plug-in
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crashes or the image is wrong), please capture data using the following steps:
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1) Copy gtwain.exe to your plug-ins directory as "dtwain.exe".
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3) Choose Xtns->TWAIN Acquire (Dump)...
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4) Choose the datasource settings that are causing problems.
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5) Choose a *SMALL* sample image.
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6) Zip up "C:\twaincap.bin" and "C:\twain.log" and send them to me.