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quarta-feira, 7 de setembro de 2011

HP Scanjet G4050 part 2: HP Scan Pro: OSX vs Win Shodown!

In order to get my G4050 working with my computers, I became familiar with both versions of the HP Scan Pro software, while performing the same tasks each version has their unique bugs, here is the Top 3 rundown to the most annoying one:

General Bug 3, no direct raw scanning!

This affects both versions of the software, there is no way to make a raw scan, that's how the "let's use Vuescan" trend started, but actually there is a way, using the TWAIN feature you can import the raw file to a image editor program. Only for proprietary ones like Photoshop, Gimp the free option doesn't work with 16 bit images and convert then to 8 bit on arrival, unfortunately.

OSX Bug 2, Retarded Zooming!

Thats a ridiculous bug, but it's there on the OSX HP Scan Pro, in order to zoom into the scan preview, the selection is scanned again! It's hardware zooming instead of software, very time consuming. So for a 30 negative multi scan, if you decide to zoom into every time the machine does 31 scans (the first preview and 30 hard zooming) just to get to the point where it's really going to scan. Ridiculous. I actually have to work with the tiny versions in the general preview and recut everything at Photoshop. Windows HP Scan Pro actually does software zooming like anyone sane would expect to.

Win Bug Winner, TWAIN multi images scanning ends at the first object!

You can't believe how mad I was when my 30 negatives that I bordered individually multi scan ended at the first negative and I had to redo it just to confirm the bug. Only happens at Win TWAIN. This bug is not present at the OSX version.

As an end note I would like to point out that the Win version of this software has a better looking GUI and both have the exact same options feature wise. I'm siding with the OSX version of Scan Pro, cos' it can do multi scan raw TWAIN, even if a have to work only with the general preview instead of selection zooming.

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