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From: Evelyn Mitchell <efm@tummy.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
Subject: COMMERCIAL: XVScan - HP ScanJets under FreeBSD
Date: 21 Jan 1996 06:07:58 -0600
Organization: FreeBSD Project
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XVScan
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Image Acquisition Software for FreeBSD, Linux and HP-UX Workstations
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January 20, 1996

tummy.com, ltd.
xvscan@tummy.com (orders, information, customer support)
http://www.tummy.com/xvscan

XVScan adds scanning capability with HP ScanJet scanners to XV

Version 1.17

If you've never used John Bradley's XV image manipulation
software, it's difficult to describe how powerful it is. XV
reads and writes files in a dozen different formats, provides powerful
color-map editing, window capture, color-space conversion, cropping,
image manipulation algorithms, and the list goes on.  

With XVScan, you now have the ability to acquire images directly
into XV from your HP ScanJet scanner in a very cost efficient 
(and more importantly time efficient) manner.

What's New in Version 1.17

1) FreeBSD support
2) Auto Document Feeder (ADF) Support
3) Web-based help
4) More error detection and reporting

The SCSI card shipped by HP with the ScanJet doesn't work.
XVScan was tested with the NCR SCSI board. Users of NCR 53c810 based 
PCI SCSI boards will need a patched version of the `/usr/src/sys/pci/ncr.c' 
driver to prevent the `handshake timeout' errors during the scanning phase. 
This has been corrected in the current development source tree. This applies 
to the 2.1.0 release of FreeBSD and older. 

The current version of XVScan is 1.17 dated 01/20/96 based upon 
XV version 3.10a dated 12/29/94.

The ScanJet 3c support is now in.  No new image types are yet supported
(the 3c is capable of scanning 30-bit color and 10-bit greyscale) as 
XV only supports 8 and 24-bit images.  10-bit grey could be simulated using
24-bits, but 3/4 of the colors would NOT be true grey -- only 256 true
greys can be held in 24-bit TrueColor.

XVScan is $US50 for ftp or email delivery. Media (floppies, DDS 2 
tape) is an additional $US15 within the US, $25 internationally. 
Contact xvscan@tummy.com to order.

For more information see: http://www.tummy.com/xvscan

Payment accepted via check, Visa/Mastercard/Discover cards.

XVScan
tummy.com, ltd.
Suite 807
300 S 16th Street
Omaha NE 68102
http://www.tummy.com/xvscan
(402) 344-4426