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Glenner
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 Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject: Rant (not really) about scanner support |
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... no this is not a rant. I am very happy with Neo/J. Have used it now more or less from the start, when you couldn't cut and paste, could nae scroll and all that. This is more a rant against myself. I have still not worked out how my scanner could be integrated into Neo/J. Apparently this is OOo flakiness, because I have seen quite a few posts about this. But other folk say they got it to work with OOo. So what is wrong with me (' ') I ask? Is it my own flakiness or is there a secret? |
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sardisson
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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AIUI, OOo scanner support on UNIX-like platforms requires SANE to be installed and a SANE-compatible scanner. Neo/J and OOo won't find standard Mac OS X scanner frameworks or TWAIN drivers (TWAIN only works on OOo/Win, which is why it shows up in the help files).
None of my scanners have been SANE-compatible, so I've never been able to test. Last summer there were some posts of success on dev@porting, so it does work--if you have the right voodoo and combination of equipment....
Smokey
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Glenner
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:03 am Post subject: |
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Smokey, thanks for that! Scanner support is one of those things that are not essential but nice to have. I had tried SANE under Panther some time ago without success. I have now found a source for the SANE support compiled for OS X and they claim to support a great number of USB and SCSI scanners. I will let you know how I am getting on.
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ovvldc
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:39 am Post subject: |
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| sardisson wrote: | | AIUI, OOo scanner support on UNIX-like platforms requires SANE to be installed and a SANE-compatible scanner. Neo/J and OOo won't find standard Mac OS X scanner frameworks or TWAIN drivers (TWAIN only works on OOo/Win, which is why it shows up in the help files). |
Vuescan seems to work with many scanners. But that costs (a little) money. Might be cheaper than getting a new scanner, though...
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Glenner
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| A quick follow-up on this. I have been to Mattias Ellerts website (http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/). He has assembled the SANE installers for Mac OS X, which now support a vast number of scanners. The packages all install beautifully but what doesn't install is the Twain package for my scanner. In the end OS X couldn't see my scanner at all and I had to roll back (twice) to my previous OS X installation. Hmm, I will give it another go as soon as I have a bit more time. |
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