Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:29:15 -0400 From: "Isaac Mushinsky" <itz@mushinsky.net> To: freebsd@celestial.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scanners, emulators and VueScan Message-ID: <bbe9e35d0803171129m6565c08apf701816b05b45c0f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080317174948.GA12884@ayn.mi.celestial.com> References: <bbe9e35d0803171041o71cb9dd9t336be4e37e439edc@mail.gmail.com> <20080317174948.GA12884@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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I did write to the author, but it seems from his previous email exchanges that he was not willing to release and maintain a FreeBSD version. Since he only wants to release binaries, there is a limit to how many platforms he can support. Although porting is probably trivial, maintaining a FreeBSD system is unlikely to be cost-effective in his view. And, for this type of software he would need FreeBSD installed on real hardware (rather than emulated), and test a range of devices with it. On 3/17/08, Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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