Lee, I've got a MacBook Pro (2 years old this summer) with 10.5.7 and am running Photoshop Elements 4 without any problems.
I have an epson 1650 scanner (circa 2001) and can scan very well through APE 4. Harry Thursday, July 2, 20091:19 PMLee [email protected] >I thought others might be interested in the letter I wrote to Pacific >Image Electronics, with a copy to Costco. > > >Some weeks ago, I bought the PIE 3650U slide scanner from Costco after >carefully checking the box to be sure it was listed as Mac compatible. >Mac compatibility is stated quite prominently on the packaging, >although there is a caveat about the TWAIN drivers not working with >Adobe products under Mac OS X 10.5. > >Upon getting it home, I found Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 was bundled >with the device. This version of Elements will not run on any version >of Mac OS X released in the past two years. Nor will the TWAIN driver, >although the latter was not a surprise. Your Web page states: > >"Since the release of Apple's 10.5 Leopard OS, our drivers are no >longer compatible with a direct import into Adobe Products. This is >due to the new Adobe software structure and driver handling. You may >use Cyberview X to scan directly into a file folder on your hard drive >then open images into Adobe for editing..." > >An email conversation with your tech support was not very satisfying. >When I pointed out these problems, the response was that "Macintosh >changes it's [sic] operating system so quick we can't keep up with >him." But, Leopard, the last major update to Mac OS X was in 2007. >Moreover, the changes you mention are in Adobe products. > >Since this problem should have been known for well over two years, why >is it not fixed in current software? Why is there no TWAIN/SANE driver >compatible with Intel-based Macs and the Leopard release of the >operating system? Why isn't a modern version of Adobe Photoshop >Elements being shipped with the machine? > >We next consider the bundled Cyberview X software, which does work on >Mac OS X Leopard, but is clearly a hasty port from the Windows >version. As evidence of this, note that the "Quit" menu item--standard >on the Mac--is grayed out and the "Exit" menu item--standard on Windows-- >is used for quitting the program. Any seasoned Mac user will be >disappointed at first glance with this software because the user >interface is at best confusing and clumsy, and it doesn't have the >polish and feel of the other programs running beside it. Moreover, it >is quite slow, probably because portions of it are running in PowerPC >emulation mode and it is certainly not multiprocessor aware. This >means the code probably has not been touched in three or four years >because Apple has long been shipping only multi-core Intel-based >Macintoshes. > >This leaves third-party software. Your Web page lists SilverFast and >VueScan as third-party alternatives for use with your scanners. >SilverFast specifically does not support Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. >VueScan does not support the 3650U on Intel-based Mac hardware, >probably because it uses your drivers. This was disappointing to me >because I have been a very happy user of VueScan for years under both >Mac and Linux. > >If you cannot support non-Windows operating systems, I suggest you >help some others develop drivers for you. For example, Hamrick >Software publishes the excellent and inexpensive VueScan scanner >software, mentioned above, that already supports hundreds of different >scanner models under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. > >Or, you could give some of the open source driver projects the use of >your machines and the technical specifications needed to develop for >them. > >I've returned this scanner to the store. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >MacGroup mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
