Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:49:48 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scanners, emulators and VueScan Message-ID: <20080317174948.GA12884@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <bbe9e35d0803171041o71cb9dd9t336be4e37e439edc@mail.gmail.com> References: <bbe9e35d0803171041o71cb9dd9t336be4e37e439edc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: >Problem: I have a film scanner whose sane support is somewhat incomplete. >There is a commercial piece of software called VueScan, which reportedly can >do what I need. It can be had as either a Windows or Linux binary. It does >not use sane on Linux, but apparently implements its own set of drivers via >libusb. Rather than install another OS and boot into it to do the scanning, >I was wondering if I can make it work with any kind of emulation. If I do >not load uscanner, my scanner will appear just as a ugen device. Can I then >have the device passed through to VueScan and usable by it with: You might want to contact Ed Hamrick <EdHamrick@aol.com>, author of VueScan. He has been very helpful to me when I had questions about it. I got VueScan for Mac OS X Tiger when I had to replace a bad hard drive on my Mac Mini and the HP drivers I had been using were no longer available (let's not go into backups shall we :-). The support has been good, and it does what I need. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. -- Frederick Douglass.
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