#ImageFX1.5scannerproblem
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JEFF,
Followed your advice and bought a copy of GVP's ImageFX 1.5 and it doesn't
work – or at least the scanner section doesn't work.
I installed the program as advised onto my hard drive and everything went
well, it loaded OK.
I followed the instructions as per Chapter 2 and 3 of the manual. With
regard to the scanner I selected the EPSON option (though I notice the
manual says it only supports the EPSON 300C) the guy in the shop (SILICA,
Glasgow) told me it would work with my GT-8000.
From page 5-3 of the manual I attempted to run the scanner module, but all
that happened was that the ready light on the scanner went out and the
'watch/busy' icon on the screen appeared …… and that was that –
nothing else happened.
According to the manual I should have been put into the scanner option
frames but this does not happen – all I am looking at is the 'watch/busy'
icon. It does not look as though the computer is freezing up as I can move
the icon easy enough but if I press elsewhere on the screen nothing else
happens.
Can you advise?
My system is:-
AMIGA1200
M1230XA 50mhz accelerator with 68882 50mhz co-pro
8Mb fast ram
250Mb Maxtor IDE hard drive.
also connected to computer is SupraFax v32bis modem and 1960 monitor.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
IAIN.
CALLING IN FROM SCOTLAND ON A 68030/50/50 AMIGA1200!
ON AUTOPILOT 1.72
Iain: ImageFX supports 2 different types of scanner cables, the one that
ADPro uses and GVP's own cable. You can't just hook up a normal parallel
cable like a printer uses. I recommend the GVP cable because it's faster
with ImageFX. I use to have the docs for making the cable, and if I can
find it, I will pass it along.
If you do have the proper cable, I seem to remember a Catch-22 with
ImageFX 1.5. It's default was set for the ADPro cable, but to get in and
change it you had to get into the scanner module. Only problem was is that
it wouldn't let you into the scanner module until the scanner initialized.
I'm not sure, but I think if you wait long enough it will give you an
error requester and then drop you into the scanner module.
// John (Speeding on the Information Superhighway)
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