Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Nothing to do oh, freebsd-questions stay in bat! 2011/02/03 18:02:09 -0800 Rem P Roberti => To FreeBSD : RPR> Now that I understand how to get a scanner working, if there are any RPR> photographers out there who are using scanners with FreeBSD for RPR> negatives or slides I would love to hear a

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-05 Thread Robert Huff
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi writes: > As FreeBSD comes out with a new version about a year (or two..) > 7.x -> 8.x -> 9.x a version of the sofware needs to be done > (compiled) seldom. If the program is well-written, it may well be that re-compiling is all that needs to be done. (

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-05 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Sáb, 2011-02-05 às 00:53 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com escreveu: > Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > Somebody saying "I'll buy it, if it supports _this_ scanner" > > is motivation. > > So perhaps what is needed is for N FreeBSD users to say "I'll buy > it, if it runs on FreeBSD." Any guesses on how

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-05 Thread Gour
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:53:00 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > So perhaps what is needed is for N FreeBSD users to say "I'll buy > it, if it runs on FreeBSD." Any guesses on how large an N would > be needed to provide sufficient motivation? Heh...when I asked Ed about support for 64-bit versi

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-05 Thread perryh
Robert Bonomi wrote: > Somebody saying "I'll buy it, if it supports _this_ scanner" > is motivation. So perhaps what is needed is for N FreeBSD users to say "I'll buy it, if it runs on FreeBSD." Any guesses on how large an N would be needed to provide sufficient motivation?

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Gour
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:03:35 -0600 (CST) Robert Bonomi wrote: > Money *IS* a poweful incentive. > > Somebody saying "I'll buy it, if it supports _this_ scanner" is > motivation. Well, I'm not astonished that he does it, but amazed that the whole open-source community behind SANE is so much beh

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Rem P Roberti wrote: On Linux I'm very satisfied with VueScan (having Epson V700) which is, imho, much better than all the free-source tools, but wonder whether it works via Linux emulation? I use Vuescan with Windoze, and you are right, it is infinitely better than any f

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 4 11:26:25 2011 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > From: Gour > Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:24:10 +0100 > Subject: Re: Scanner recommendation > > --Sig_/7ESsfH/1RtQF54bxqA=NpSI > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=U

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011, Gour wrote: >On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:53:05 -0800 >Rem P Roberti wrote: > >> I use Vuescan with Windoze, and you are right, it is infinitely >> better than any free source software. > >It's really puzzling how one-man shop can support write software which >is so much better t

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Gour
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:53:05 -0800 Rem P Roberti wrote: > I use Vuescan with Windoze, and you are right, it is infinitely > better than any free source software. It's really puzzling how one-man shop can support write software which is so much better than any free software with support for so

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Rem P Roberti
Now that I understand how to get a scanner working, if there are any photographers out there who are using scanners with FreeBSD for negatives or slides I would love to hear a recommendation. I have an Epson V500, but it is unsupported, and the only scanner that I have that is supported is an o

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Gour
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:02:09 -0800 Rem P Roberti wrote: > Now that I understand how to get a scanner working, if there are any > photographers out there who are using scanners with FreeBSD for > negatives or slides I would love to hear a recommendation. I have an > Epson V500, but it is unsup

Re: Scanner Recommendation

2003-03-03 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Ada Cheng wrote: > I am palnning to purchase a scanner for my box (running 4.7 stable) in the > near future. Any recommendations? Check http://www.mostang.com/sane first. I bought an Epson 1640SU which works fine through USB and xsane. (Haven't tried SCSI.) -Warren Block *