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From: Salmon Egg on 7 Aug 2010 05:53
I am perplexed by using my Brother MFC-86450D multifunction scanner
capability in Snow Leopard. In original Leopard, I used Brother�s
ControlCenter2 for scanning. It was a bit awkward, but it worked well
enough.

With the arrival of Snow Leopard, it became possible and maybe mandatory
to scan from the Printer & Fax system preference pane or from Preview
itself. In particular, I like to read in inverse video because of vision
problems. I have great difficulty getting satisfactory contrast so that
the characters are easy to read. The characters tend to be of low
contrast and break up. Old scan files are still easy to read.

I had quit Preview to start up cleanly. My scanner had a sheet of text
on its flat bed window. There was one small part of the sheet that had a
small box of white text on a dark background. The rest of the text was
black on white. I am describing this as if it were in normal, not
inverse, video.

With Preview off, I turn on Preview and get a window that shows the menu
bar. I select Import from Scanner from the File menu. I select Brother
MFC�8640D. Without my doing ANYTHING MORE, the document is scanned and
saved poorly.

To make a long story short, the only way I could get a decent scan was
to take the dashed line box that selects the dark box on the document
and change this outline with my mouse to encompass the entire document.
Then I scan again.

1 Is anyone having similar problems?
2 Can I be missing something �obvious�?
3 Is it possible to have a standalone scanning application that bypasses
Preview?
4 I would like to use ControlCenter2 just like I did in Leopard
(OS10.5). Is that possible?

Bill

--
An old man would be better off never having been born.
From: AES on 7 Aug 2010 15:15
In article <SalmonEgg-1F4296.02530507082010(a)news60.forteinc.com>,
Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 3 Is it possible to have a standalone scanning application that bypasses
> Preview?

Is it still possible to use VueScan in Snow Leopard?

<http://www.hamrick.com/abo.html>
From: Salmon Egg on 7 Aug 2010 17:07
In article
<siegman-AFB706.12152507082010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>,
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> In article <SalmonEgg-1F4296.02530507082010(a)news60.forteinc.com>,
> Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > 3 Is it possible to have a standalone scanning application that bypasses
> > Preview?
>
> Is it still possible to use VueScan in Snow Leopard?
>
> <http://www.hamrick.com/abo.html>

Thanks Tony, In comparison to using Preview, VueScan is a pleasure. I
have not exercised it much yet.

Bill

--
An old man would be better off never having been born.
From: Lloyd Parsons on 7 Aug 2010 17:16
In article <SalmonEgg-D2FA6F.14070307082010(a)news60.forteinc.com>,
Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> In article
> <siegman-AFB706.12152507082010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>,
> AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> > In article <SalmonEgg-1F4296.02530507082010(a)news60.forteinc.com>,
> > Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > > 3 Is it possible to have a standalone scanning application that bypasses
> > > Preview?
> >
> > Is it still possible to use VueScan in Snow Leopard?
> >
> > <http://www.hamrick.com/abo.html>
>
> Thanks Tony, In comparison to using Preview, VueScan is a pleasure. I
> have not exercised it much yet.
>
> Bill

In the original posting, reference was made to using Brothers scan app.
That's what I do with my 10.6.4 Snow Leopard machine. If you can't use
it, just go to the Brother site and get it again and install.

--
Lloyd


From: AES on 8 Aug 2010 13:15
In article <SalmonEgg-D2FA6F.14070307082010(a)news60.forteinc.com>,
Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> > Is it still possible to use VueScan in Snow Leopard?
> >
> > <http://www.hamrick.com/abo.html>
>
> Thanks Tony, In comparison to using Preview, VueScan is a pleasure. I
> have not exercised it much yet.
>
> Bill
>

Glad to help, Bill -- someone else pointed me to this some time back.

--AES
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