VueScan problem with OS X.2

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Kieron Dwyer

my mac has been acting weird anyway lately, after having the HD
replaced recently, then having OS X.2 re-loaded. However, I downloaded
Vuescan after the new HD was put in, when I discovered that I could
not scan from my old hp ScanJet 4c into Photoshop, which I had always
been able to do in OS 9.2. So Vuescan was initially a godsend.

Until recently, when Vuescan started acting really oddly, with no
ability to alter the preferences (or even access them), and all the
text in the scan window being jumbled and unnavigatible/unusable. Very
frustrating. No matter how many times I delete the .ini file and
re-download/reload Vuescan on my computer, the problem persists. Also,
the scan window doesn't show much of the image, it's all "stuck"
underneath the menu bars on the left hand side. I am able to scan
things, still using the new controls, but it's all guesswork, until I
open the file in Photoshop. The crop is often acompletely off kilter,
and I have to rescan the images multiple times.

This is terribly frustrating ,as I am an artist who uses his
scanner/photoshop virtually daily.

Any ideas here?

I am sending an email to Ed at Hamrick.com, but I thought I'd see if
anybody else has experienced a similar problem

Thanks
Kieron
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my mac has been acting weird anyway lately, after having the HD
replaced recently, then having OS X.2 re-loaded. However, I downloaded
Vuescan after the new HD was put in, when I discovered that I could
not scan from my old hp ScanJet 4c into Photoshop, which I had always
been able to do in OS 9.2. So Vuescan was initially a godsend.

Until recently, when Vuescan started acting really oddly, with no
ability to alter the preferences (or even access them), and all the
text in the scan window being jumbled and unnavigatible/unusable. Very
frustrating. No matter how many times I delete the .ini file and
re-download/reload Vuescan on my computer, the problem persists. Also,
the scan window doesn't show much of the image, it's all "stuck"
underneath the menu bars on the left hand side. I am able to scan
things, still using the new controls, but it's all guesswork, until I
open the file in Photoshop. The crop is often acompletely off kilter,
and I have to rescan the images multiple times.

This is terribly frustrating ,as I am an artist who uses his
scanner/photoshop virtually daily.

Any ideas here?

I am sending an email to Ed at Hamrick.com, but I thought I'd see if
anybody else has experienced a similar problem
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I'm not using an hp ScanJet so cannot speak on that...

Personally I don't think the Mac version running on Jaguar has a very
high priority. Problems that I reported from the first version (7.6.73)
that I used with an Epson 1670 are still present in 8.1.3... plus new
ones introduced with version 8.

I wish you luck... hopefully, it will benefit all of us Jaguar users...
Jim
 
Jim said:
Personally I don't think the Mac version running on Jaguar has a very
high priority.
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Yes, I suspect the wxwindows developer tool that Ed Hamrick uses
typically only supports the latest version of the Mac OS. In my
experience, when Mac OS 9 apeared, VueScan didn't work any longer with
Mac OS 8, so it wouldn't surprise me if your problem can only be solved
by upgrading to Panther.
 
Kieron Dwyer said:
Until recently, when Vuescan started acting really oddly, with no
ability to alter the preferences (or even access them), and all the
text in the scan window being jumbled and unnavigatible/unusable.
Click to expand...

You need to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.2.8. I've modified VueScan 8.1.4
to check for this version.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick
 
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