For those of you who are attending MacworldSF could you please go around to the scanner developer booths to see what they say about scanner support for Mac OS X? Thanks...
I bet it's not good, especially for uMax! How hard could it be to rewrite drivers and the scanning software? I was really hopping iPhoto would allow scanning, but it does not. Still a good app though.
I've read (<a href="http://www.appleturns.com"; target="_blank">in the 2nd scene of today's episode of AtAT</a>) that iPhoto will let you import photos, so you can still use it for organizing scanned pics; it just isn't integrated with the scanner itself.
I also have a UMAX and am going into OS9 to scan. I'd be thrilled to hear any news about scanning improvements in OSX.
<strong>I've read (<a href="http://www.appleturns.com"; target="_blank">in the 2nd scene of today's episode of AtAT</a>) that iPhoto will let you import photos, so you can still use it for organizing scanned pics; it just isn't integrated with the scanner itself.
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Yeah, but what's the point of that when you can't use the scanner?
Well if you are a UMAX owner then two things should be bothering you.
1. UMAX have not attended MacWorld SF 2002.
2. I got this reply to a query regardi9ng UMAX scanner support for OS X today:
[quote] On 9/1/02 11:40 am, "Umax Support" <[email protected]> wrote:
We are currently not developing drivers for Mac OS 10 or X. This is for a reason I do not know.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Regards,
UMAX UK Astra Technical Support<hr></blockquote>
It is quite beyond all reason for this situation especially when there is a shareware option which shows the technology is there.
Thank god for Vuescan ( link above) which works fine with my UMAX 6450 Firewire UMAX scanner or else I would be left having to boot into OS 9 ( can't use Classic) which I never use now.
Vuescan supports UMAX scanners.
Still it could be worse. We could own Canon USB scanners :eek:
graphic converter is carbon right.... can anyone tell me if it will drive epson usb/firewire scanners automatically in classic whilst runnign X.... or doesnt it work that way ?
I have waited for half a year to get a scanner because of this stuff.
Talked to the Canon people about scanners under X, they said that there is still a lot that Apple needs to include in the OS to get scanning up to the levels it was in 9, but they did show off a developmental version of their drivers for X. The only problem was that they only planned on supporting some of the new scanners that just have been released are and those that are down the road. As for the current and older scanners (like my 1220U) they are evaluating whether they will do drivers for them. My response was if you decide not to do drivers for the most recent scanners you will not be making any friends in the Mac community (read me with my 1220U and I am sure lots of others).
There is SCSI support in OSX. At the Vuescan homepage there is a direct link to the Adaptec drivers for some of their cards. I have personally nagged the people at OrangeMicro so much (Grappler PCI SCSI card) that they sent me beta drivers. So far the SCSI Zip drive works perfectly but the UMAX PowerLook II SCSI scanner is not even seen on Apple System Profiler (while it does see the Zip drive after the beta drivers are installed).
VueScan homepage <a href="http://www.hamrick.com"; target="_blank">www.hamrick.com</a> also lists the scanners it DOESNT support. I cant even scan through classic. I have to boot back into OS 9 to do so. Dammit.
my biggest gripes are absolute, total sh!t support for webcams and scanners. This is so pathetic.
At least thats good that Canon is actually doing SOMETHING for OS X. I will be buying the 1240U scanner in a week or so... they better develop drivers for it. Otherwise I will just continue to do what I always do... nag the hell out of companies until I get replies from human beings and get them to develop. Hehe, I must be such a nightmare for many 3rd party hardware manufacturers.
Of course OSX supports SCSI. Hard drives work fine, Jaz drives, CDRW (SCSI Yamaha) with the ElGato fix, etc...Vuescan does support scsi scanners in OSX. An example is the 1200S.
Tape drives are largely scsi and OSX will have to support those. The SCSI driver in OSX is claimed to have bugs (by Roxio) so I assume it will be fixed. Oh, and both iTunes and Burner work fine with my Yamaha SCSI.
Apple has to include SCSI support in OSX if only for OSX Server.
philip
[quote]Originally posted by othello:
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doubtful, as OS X doesn't support SCSI...</strong><hr></blockquote>
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I also have a UMAX and am going into OS9 to scan. I'd be thrilled to hear any news about scanning improvements in OSX.
<strong>I've read (<a href="http://www.appleturns.com"; target="_blank">in the 2nd scene of today's episode of AtAT</a>) that iPhoto will let you import photos, so you can still use it for organizing scanned pics; it just isn't integrated with the scanner itself.
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Yeah, but what's the point of that when you can't use the scanner?
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I also have a UMAX and am going into OS9 to scan. </strong><hr></blockquote>
You can scan in OS X but you have to use Classic. Not a perfect solution but it works.
VueScan supports most scanners.
1. UMAX have not attended MacWorld SF 2002.
2. I got this reply to a query regardi9ng UMAX scanner support for OS X today:
[quote] On 9/1/02 11:40 am, "Umax Support" <[email protected]> wrote:
We are currently not developing drivers for Mac OS 10 or X. This is for a reason I do not know.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Regards,
UMAX UK Astra Technical Support<hr></blockquote>
It is quite beyond all reason for this situation especially when there is a shareware option which shows the technology is there.
Thank god for Vuescan ( link above) which works fine with my UMAX 6450 Firewire UMAX scanner or else I would be left having to boot into OS 9 ( can't use Classic) which I never use now.
Vuescan supports UMAX scanners.
Still it could be worse. We could own Canon USB scanners :eek:
Personally i will never buy a UMAX product again.
moon
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Still it could be worse. We could own Canon USB scanners :eek:
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I do that. Whats the deal? Never gonna use it under X?
I have waited for half a year to get a scanner because of this stuff.
cheers
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<strong>Yeah, but what's the point of that [iPhoto] when you can't use the scanner?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Keeping your photos in a central organizational app?
Being able to organize them by date, keyword, type, roll, "album," etc?
Being able to crop, resize, rotate, correct red eye, convert to black and white?
Being able to batch export them (images only, as a webpage, or as a QuickTime movie)?
Being able to print them, make greeting cards, order them as prints, posters, and even a linen-bound hardback book you can design yourself?
Being able to make galleries point-and-click and put them up on your iTools HomePage?
Being able to show the family a cool slideshow of your pics with music in the background?
I see a lot of point to iPhoto. And it's only beginning.
<strong>VueScan supports most scanners.</strong><hr></blockquote>
But does it support SCSI scanners?
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But does it support SCSI scanners?
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doubtful, as OS X doesn't support SCSI...
Daniel
<strong>Or you can get VueScan from <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com"; target="_blank">www.versiontracker.com</a> and scan in OS X.
VueScan supports most scanners.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yea buy Vuescan doesn't work on th G5
VueScan homepage <a href="http://www.hamrick.com"; target="_blank">www.hamrick.com</a> also lists the scanners it DOESNT support. I cant even scan through classic. I have to boot back into OS 9 to do so. Dammit.
my biggest gripes are absolute, total sh!t support for webcams and scanners. This is so pathetic.
At least thats good that Canon is actually doing SOMETHING for OS X. I will be buying the 1240U scanner in a week or so... they better develop drivers for it. Otherwise I will just continue to do what I always do... nag the hell out of companies until I get replies from human beings and get them to develop. Hehe, I must be such a nightmare for many 3rd party hardware manufacturers.
Tape drives are largely scsi and OSX will have to support those. The SCSI driver in OSX is claimed to have bugs (by Roxio) so I assume it will be fixed. Oh, and both iTunes and Burner work fine with my Yamaha SCSI.
Apple has to include SCSI support in OSX if only for OSX Server.
philip
[quote]Originally posted by othello:
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doubtful, as OS X doesn't support SCSI...</strong><hr></blockquote>
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