So, It's a UMAX USB Scanner, an Astra 5450. Supposedly TWAIN compliant.
I plug it into the TiBook, running 10.2.6, and nothing happens. Apple
System Profiler sees it on the USB bus, but none of the useful
applications see it. (Image Capture, GKON, etc)

I had a look at www.twain.org - there's some new stuff available for OS
X, but I couldn't determine whether that was an SDK for writing twain
drivers, or actually running twain hardware. Either way, it wants to
live in /System/Library/Frameworks but there's already a Twain.framework
and I can't modify it in any way because, well, the Frameworks Folder
Can't be Modified. Or so it tells me. Yes.

According to Apple, the Scanner vendor should supply an updated TWAIN
DSN or something, but there's nothing at all from UMAX to download for
OS X.

Anyone got any bright ideas to get my scanner working? Preferably so it
uses the built-in tranny adapter as well?

Cheers,
James

In article <MPG.196e1ec241f3be8d98976b[at]news.ox.ac.uk>,
james.dore[at]new.oxford.ac.uk says...
>
> Anyone got any bright ideas to get my scanner working? Preferably so it
> uses the built-in tranny adapter as well?
>

Apparently not....

.....however:

http://www.umax.co.uk/support/technotes/macosx.htm

Seems to have some answers.

Buy VueScan being the most apposite.

Cheers,
James

On 3/7/03 12:07, in article MPG.196e1ec241f3be8d98976b[at]news.ox.ac.uk, "James
Dore" <james.dore[at]new.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:

> Anyone got any bright ideas to get my scanner working? Preferably so it
> uses the built-in tranny adapter as well?

Vuescan.

Umax are arses and haven't released Jag drivers for most of their
scanners....

In article <1fxl6or.69dan113qhmz6N%hairy.biker[at]spamcop.net>,
hairy.biker[at]spamcop.net says...
> James Dore <james.dore[at]new.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
> > The only thing that is unclear is whether it will work the tranny
> > adapter of my 5450. But since that seems to be related to whether the
> > mask is actually in place on the scanner bed, it might not matter too
> > much.
>
> AFAIK it *should* work with a transparency adaptor, I believe you can
> set the scan type in the pull down menus.
>
>

Oooh, shiny. That would be ultimately useful, given I've just ordered
30m of bulk slide film....

Cheers,