Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-22 Thread Berry Ives
on 3/14/01 4:00 PM, Tony Sleep at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:08:20 +0100 Henk de Jong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm sure we're all using at least 1280X1024... No, don't be too shure about that: I am working at 1024x768 on a 17" monitor ;-) Huh. I'm currently

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-14 Thread Tony Sleep
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:08:20 +0100 Henk de Jong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm sure we're all using at least 1280X1024... No, don't be too shure about that: I am working at 1024x768 on a 17" monitor ;-) Huh. I'm currently working with Vuescan at 640x480 on a 10" monitor, since my NEC

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-10 Thread Alan Tyson
nal Message - From: Hersch Nitikman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:29 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea I may have known once, but I can't remember what a CLI is. Hersch

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-09 Thread Hersch Nitikman
I may have known once, but I can't remember what a CLI is. Hersch At 10:32 PM 03/07/2001 -0800, you wrote: Jim Snyder wrote: But, a properly designed program usually uses speed keys for the buttons anyway, and location is not a concern. I have yet to meet many users that don't

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-09 Thread Henry Richardson
From: Hersch Nitikman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I may have known once, but I can't remember what a CLI is. CLI = Command Line Interface _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-08 Thread Lynn Allen
Jules wrote: is the prescan in NikonScan just a scan? it's seems awful fast, even faster than the fastest vuescan preview. Scanwit's Mira Photo driver also uses a fast scan (at 300ppi) to show all the frames in the film-holder. This has the advantage of allerting me to "problem frames" that

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-08 Thread Jim Snyder
Mike Kersenbrock wrote: Jim Snyder wrote: But, a properly designed program usually uses speed keys for the buttons anyway, and location is not a concern. I have yet to meet many users that don't recohgnize the efficiencies picked up by shortcuts, aliases, and speed keys. Even the

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread shAf
Larry writes ... What if you're sitting with a small pile of slides to scan, all taken by different people at different times? ... This is an example of a situation, for which trying to make VS easy to use, must drive Ed nuts. How to anticipate what is easy, considering one user who

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Henk de Jong
Frank Paris wrote: I'm sure we're all using at least 1280X1024... No, don't be too shure about that: I am working at 1024x768 on a 17" monitor ;-) __ With kind regards, Henk de Jong The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage Nepal - Trekking Around Annapurna - Photo Gallery:

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Tim Victor
On Tuesday, March 06, shaf wrote: I just had another idea for un-cluttering a tab window, possibly removing entire tab. Since any session, is entirely dedicated to a particular roll of film, why not move all concerns for film type to a menu item?? There may be many "preferences, we'd

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Tim Victor
On Wednesday, March 07, shAf wrote: Larry writes ... What if you're sitting with a small pile of slides to scan, all taken by different people at different times? This is an example of a situation, for which trying to make VS easy to use, must drive Ed nuts. How to anticipate what is

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/7/2001 3:16:19 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This time you are wrong, Frank. I'm sure there are more than a couple of us with 17" monitors. With a 17", anything over 800x600 is dysfunctional. I'm happy for you that you have something larger, but please don't

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Li Xia and Dale Weedman
I agree too. - Original Message - From: "IronWorks" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2001 1:44 Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea I am for this. Maris - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/7/2001 3:16:03 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the keys to effective software design is to make the common cases easy and the uncommon cases possible. I completely agree with this. However, one person's logical grouping of controls isn't logical to another

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Alexander Drunin
Eac I now have my test version of VueScan 7.0 When do you plan to release it at least to play with? Alex

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Henk de Jong
What do people think of my putting options that affect the raw scan in the Device tab, and other options in other tabs? I've been asked several times in the past few days which options affect the raw scan, and this seems like a logical way to organize things. Sounds good to me! __

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Henry Richardson
From: "Frank Paris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sure we're all using at least 1280X1024 and so there is enough real-estate so that the tabs won't overflow. I use 1024x768. This is the second message I have read in 3 minutes where the author, who has probably never met any of the other Vuescan

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/7/2001 7:42:04 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When do you plan to release it at least to play with? Probably before this weekend. Regards, Ed Hamrick

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Henry Richardson
From: Tim Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] But the more typical case is working through a batch of a couple of dozen pictures using the same settings. And how do you know that is the more typical case? Maybe you are right, but please point to the evidence that supports your assertion. Maybe Ed has a

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Hersch Nitikman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This time you are wrong, Frank. I'm sure there are more than a couple of us with 17" monitors. With a 17", anything over 800x600 is dysfunctional. I'm happy for you that you have something larger, but please don't penalize all of us who don't have

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/7/2001 9:21:16 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know Ed has stated in the past that most of the reason for Vuescan's somewhat crowded interface is to fit it into a 640x480 screen. I plan to continue making it useful on a 640x480 screen, but this is quite a bit

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Lynn Allen
shAF wrote, re Tabs: Since any session, is entirely dedicated to a particular roll of film That's true for photographers with filmstrips, but not for archivers with slides and/or negs from many shoots mixed together, nor for reflective (flatbed) use which Vuescan also supports. Can't

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Henry Richardson
From: "shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since any session, is entirely dedicated to a particular roll of film, why not move all concerns for film type to a menu item?? Not sure how you are able to make such a definitive statement. Almost all of my scanning sessions involve scanning frames from various

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Frank Paris
: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea Frank Paris wrote: I'm sure we're all using at least 1280X1024... No, don't be too shure about that: I am working at 1024x768 on a 17" monitor ;-) __ With kind regards, Henk de Jong The Netherlands Email: [EMAIL PROT

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea/min res for VS

2001-03-07 Thread Frank Paris
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 6:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea "Hersch Nitikman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This time you are wrong, Frank. I'm sure there are more than a couple of us

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread shAf
Lynn writes ... shAF wrote, re Tabs: Since any session, is entirely dedicated to a particular roll of film That's true for photographers with filmstrips, but not for archivers with slides and/or negs from many shoots mixed together, ... I agree with you ... I should have

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Lynn Allen
Tim wrote: It would help my workflow considerably if I could answer email or write invoices or whatever, rather than having to babysit the scanner for each frame. It would help everybody's, I'm sure. The solution is co-processors, which is a hardware fix and not in Vuescan's purview. Amiga

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Shough, Dean
I'm sure we're all using at least 1280X1024 and so there is enough real-estate so that the tabs won't overflow. When I read this, I thought it must be tongue in cheek.

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Lynn Allen
Tim wrote: One of the keys to effective software design is to make the common cases easy and the uncommon cases possible. That's well put, Tim, and it's beginning to happen, even. In the rare case where someone gets stuck with a mixed batch of slides to scan, they'd have waste an extra mouse

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Lynn Allen
Ed wrote: What do people think of my putting options that affect the raw scan in the Device tab, and other options in other tabs? I've been asked several times in the past few days which options affect the raw scan, and this seems like a logical way to organize things. Seems to me that that

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread IronWorks
Unfortunately I've never seen that one. Maris - Original Message - From: "Alan Tyson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:27 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea | I should be happy to have a single group of tabs

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread IronWorks
the program and are no longer potential customers. Maris - Original Message - From: "Frank Paris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:33 AM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea | I'm sure we're all using at least 1280X1

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread IronWorks
easier to remember where they are for all - rather than guessing what might be the most or more 'common' way of using them. Maris - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 5:22 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Collin Ong
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Lynn Allen wrote: Tim wrote: It would help my workflow considerably if I could answer email or write invoices or whatever, rather than having to babysit the scanner for each frame. It would help everybody's, I'm sure. The solution is co-processors, which is Actually

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Jim Snyder
Mike Kersenbrock wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I was asked by one person to put the buttons at the top, above the tabs. This ends up looking quite cluttered, and it's easy to press a tab instead of a button, and vice versa. Putting the buttons at the bottom and having the

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Austin Franklin
It would help my workflow considerably if I could answer email or write invoices or whatever, rather than having to babysit the scanner for each frame. It would help everybody's, I'm sure. The solution is co-processors, which is Actually the solution is not co-processors. Most

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Henry Richardson
From: "shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I happen to believe VS's "raw scan" versus "subsequent crop" philosophy is its greatest strength and what sets it apart form other softwares. I believe you ought to emphasize this, and make it conceptually easy to use, by keeping what addresses the raw scan

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Colin Maddock
Rob Geraghty wrote: anyone using vuescan would surely be using Photoshop or PSP, both of which are unworkable in 640x480. Unworkable? I'm using PS at 640 x 480 (and using Vuescan) and both work fine. Colin Maddock

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/7/2001 12:05:50 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Main reason for it is the same reason that many "toolbars" in programs are at the top just below the menus. The reason is mouse movement. If one exclusively uses one set or the other as alternatives, then it doesn't

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Robert Kehl
:55 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea I've organized the tabs from left to right in the order that they'll typically be used: Device, Crop, Process, Files, Prefs, Preview (for image), Scan (for image). I'm going to try to order the options within each tab in a way

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 3/7/2001 5:04:49 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This all sound marvelousbut does this mean my Prescan Window suggestion didn't make the cut? Is there hope for this in the future? or is it just too much programming. Can you describe what you mean by a "Prescan"

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Rob Geraghty
Lynn wrote: It would help everybody's, I'm sure. The solution is co-processors, which is a hardware fix and not in Vuescan's purview. Amiga type coprocessing is no different from hardware acceleration on any number of peripherals like graphic accelerator cards, DMA capable drives, etc. Those

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Jules
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 3:27 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea In a message dated 3/7/2001 5:04:49 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This all sound marvelousbut does this mean my

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Frank Paris
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea I'm sure we're all using at least 1280X1024 and so there is enough real-estate so that the tabs won't overflow. When I read this, I thought it must be tongue in cheek.

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Frank Paris
]]On Behalf Of IronWorks Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea *We* may be but there are others out in this big wide world - many new to scanning, to graphics. I'm sure there are those of us even besides Alan Tyson who

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread shAf
Jules writes ... is the prescan in NikonScan just a scan? it's seems awful fast, even faster than the fastest vuescan preview. The "prescan" in NS simply measures the proper exposure, altho it also measures the exposure during the "preview" (one of the preferences). With Vuescan, the

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Robert Kehl
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 5:27 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea Can you describe what you mean by a "Prescan" tab again? Is it basically the same thing as the "Sc

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Gordon Tassi
Ed: Taht works for me. i have not read the help file for some time and I am sure that insruction iis in there. All I have to do is remember to click it back on to get the output file. Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 3/7/2001 5:04:49 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-07 Thread Mike Kersenbrock
Jim Snyder wrote: But, a properly designed program usually uses speed keys for the buttons anyway, and location is not a concern. I have yet to meet many users that don't recohgnize the efficiencies picked up by shortcuts, aliases, and speed keys. Even the function keys can be programmed

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread shAf
Ed asks ... I'm curious what people think of the idea of having VueScan with one tab visible at a time (i.e. not having one group of tabs on the right and the preview/scan visible on the left, but instead one grouping of all the tabs). ... The problem with having the preview and scan

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread Daniel Merchant
I like the idea of 1 set of tabs, the split always seemed unnatural to me. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 6:08 PM Subject: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea I'm curious what people think of the idea of having

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread Frank Paris
There's no particular reason to have two groups of tabs. This is completely nonstandard. All tabs should be on the same property sheet. Frank Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=62684 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread IronWorks
I am for this. Maris - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:08 PM Subject: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea | I'm curious what people think of the idea of having | VueScan with one tab visible at a time (i.e. not

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread shAf
Ed writes ... I'm curious what people think of the idea of having VueScan with one tab visible at a time ... ... some thoughts ... First, and I know I've said this before, but Vuescan's scan window presents inaccurate color. Vuescan allows you to create RGB data for every color

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread shAf
Frank writes ... There's no particular reason to have two groups of tabs. This is completely nonstandard. All tabs should be on the same property sheet. We could never make any inovative progress if we stayed with "standards" :o) ... but I understand your gist, and from what I gathered

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread Frank Paris
ubject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea Frank writes ... There's no particular reason to have two groups of tabs. This is completely nonstandard. All tabs should be on the same property sheet. We could never make any inovative progress if we stayed with "standards&

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread Larry Berman
Not necessarily true, What if you're sitting with a small pile of slides to scan, all taken by different people at different times? Maybe a menu check box to save settings for the next scan, or revert to the default settings between scans, with the default assignable. I have been struggling

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Tyson
I should be happy to have a single group of tabs, provided that you don't use the dreadful standard MS tab system, where the tabs rotate apparently at random, so that I can't remember which ones I've just looked at. PS: I still remember love 'Vuescan Classic' where all settings were visible on

Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Tyson
- Original Message - From: shAf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:45 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea Myself, I think I'd have a problem with not seeing the controls I'm presently using while I acquire subsequent

RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea

2001-03-06 Thread Frank Paris
?u=62684 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Tyson Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 9:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea I should be happy to have a single group of tabs, provided