[X-Newbies] Re: Patch for Vista scan for X ?

[Charles Martin]

> From: Fredrik Brink <fredrik.brink at telia.com>
>
> I recently changed to OSX and everything seems to run ok but I have one
> problem.
> My old but still-working scanner Umax Vistascan S6 has problems with
> the new platform .
> A message is prompted " Could not complete the import because a file
> was not found"
> I am using classic photoshop and that worked prior the X change.
> Is there a Patch or a new driver?

Hi Fredrik!

Please don't take this as "flip" or dismissive: it's time for you to 
buy a new scanner.

I hobbled along for a long time with an old UMAX scanner that I somehow 
made work using a German version of VistaScan and Photoshop 4 in 
Classic. For two years now it was the ONLY thing apart from one game 
that I needed Classic for.

Finally I got fed up, hunted around and found a vastly better-quality 
scanner for $40. Why on earth did I wait so long?

UMAX was the single most UN-friendly Mac developer I ever ran across. 
They were OPENLY hostile to OS X and basically forced their programmers 
to stop work on any OS X-compatible drivers, while refusing to write 
new ones for their new models. They have, the same as EVERY company 
that abandons the Mac in favour of so-called "greener pastures," 
withered away to nothing (they were the #1 consumer scanner company for 
a long time). Good riddance to bad rubbish.

_Chas_

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