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- Brief notes by Gunnar Forsgren Ericsson Telecom, Sweden.
-
- Date 91-06-18
-
- I have written a brief report of
- using 'scantool' together with the
- Microtek MSF-300A scanner to include
- scanned images into FrameMaker documents.
-
- This possibility should be of general
- interest to users,
- especially for those writing documentation that
- consists of graphic illustrations, figures, etc.
- The report is available upon request.
-
- 'scantool' is the only public domain tool I have
- seen (at this date and price) that allows image scanning into Sun bitmaps.
-
- For buying a MSF-300A in Sweden,
-
- Contact
-
- Professional Systems
- Malaxgatan 7
- 164 75 Kista
- Yvonne Jansson
- 08-752 00 70
-
- They have no software support for Sun systems, only
- towards PC or Mac. I had the scanner on loan for a week
- and managed to get it to work with 'scantool'.
-
- The scanner costs 7800 :- (Ericsson price).
- Indeed a fair price considering the new possibilities.
-
- I assume NO maintenance responsibility !
-
- To make Xview tool, first edit Imakefile to adjust any
- differences in directories used for help files, include files,
- libraries, etc. Then do 'xmkmf' to adjust
- Makefile to your X environment.
- Then just do 'make' to compile the Xview tool which
- will be 'scantool'.
-
- To make the Sunview version, run the script
- make.sunview
- which uses the file makefile.sunview and
- creates a sunview tool named 'sv_scantool'.
- Rename it to 'scantool' if you want it as
- your tool instead of the Xview version.
-
- Then run 'scantool &' to get the tool up on
- your screen.
-
-
- %%% Hardware connection of Microtek MSF-300A scanner : %%%
-
- I connected the scanner to serial port A of the back of a
- Sparcstation 1+. It should work on any Sun WS.
-
- The scanner hardware should be strapped for 'RS-232', which
- means that the strap on the internal interface board (which can be
- reached after removing the cover and a black metal shielding box,
- a total of 10 screws I think) should be at the 'frontmost' position
- towards the marking 'RS-232'. A serial cable with three wires
- is required :
-
- Sun Scanner
- Pin Name Pin Name
- ----------------------------
- 2 TXD 3 RXD
- 3 RXD 2 TXD
- 7 GND 7 GND
-
- The file /etc/ttytab must have the entry for 'ttya' set to :
-
- ttya "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown off local offsecure
-
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- VB2/ETX/TM/FM Gunnar Forsgren
-
- Phone..: +46 8 7196118
- Fax....: +46 8 7192900
- email..: gunnar@falcon.ericsson.se
- MEMO...: ETX.ETXGFN
- VAX....: VAXN::FORSGREN
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