Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's a great piece of software. I've used it for about 6 or 7 years.The interface is a bit arcane, but it works well and Ed Hamrick may give the best support of any software author on the planet. For difficult scans, VueScan often gives results superior to those from the OEM software. Allen >Hi Jim, > >Take a look at http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html for a Scanner driver >that may work for your old scanner under XP. >http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#supported shows the list >of 400 of them. It is excellent software, at least the OSX version >that I have used with several Firewire and SCSI flatbeds. It may be >cheaper than a replacement scanner, the Standard Edition costs >US$49.95 and the Professional Edition costs US$89.85. > >>Daniel, >>I didn't get hit by lightning, but did have power supply go bad, >>and it is a Dell-specific power supply in a seven year old Pentium >>II. My new computer runs Windows XP and I was in for some >>surprises. First, my old scanner and printer do not support Windows >>XP, so those will have to be replaced. Second, XP does not support >>the msbackup program that I have been using, so my backup files on >>my external hard drive were not accessible. I did get the old >>machine booted up long enough to copy my essential data and photo >>files to the USB hard drive, which I then connected to the new >>machine and copied the files. To top it off, the new version of >>Excel will not run the old Macros in my financial spreadsheets. >>I'm about half way converted after 2 1/2 days of work. Good Luck! >>Jim Nichols >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >-- >______________________________________________________________________________ >Steve Keirstead >Research Assistant II, Biology Teaching Labs, >Harvard Science Center, Room 409, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Ma 02138. >Work Phone: (617) 495-2683 , FAX: (617) 496-9105 > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information