Morning, Spyder 2 is definitely PPC only requires Rosetta, so SL being last OS X. Spyder 3 is Intel based, reports suggest it works with Lion. When, and if. I upgrade a machine later in week, will confirm?
Datacolor very fast at updating software if needs to be, I would suggest they have been testing with Lion, and have solution if needs to be?? Upgrading is relatively cheap as Spyder Pro 3 is around $200 AU or less if research. I bought Studio SR for less than $500, when upgraded last year. Datacolor have Spyder Gallery for iPad on Apps store for free. Just need the Spyder3 Calibrator. Cheers! `RobD... On 23Jul2011, at 11:58 pm, Ray Forma wrote: > > Three PPC-only apps that I was afraid of losing if I should upgrade to MacOS > 10.7 (Lion) were OmniPage, an optical character reader program, Barcode > Generator, a program that created barcodes when you typed in the barcode > number, and Spyder 2, the app that drives my screen colour-calibrator. I have > found that I can do without the first two, but Spyder 2 is still a problem. > > For OCR I will use VueScan 9.0.50, <http://www.hamrick.com> which I have used > versions of for scanning since August 2003. This powerful program has > suffered from a lack of a decent manual till last month, when 'The VueScan > Bible' by Sascha Steinhoff finally became available. This book finally > allowed me to work out how to get VueScan to do OCR, besides all of the > high-level scanning that I had been using. I can now scan documents to PDF, > and have editable text overlying the text in the scan, and I can get a Rich > Text Format file of the text in any scanned document. VueScan will also > extract editable text from existing images of documents. I am now using both > features to do any OCR that I have to do. so far I am very happy with the > results. The current version of VueScan is 64 as well as 32-bit Intel capable > and the Pro version is probably the best value for money app that I have ever > bought. > > For barcodes I have found several websites that will generate barcodes in > editable vector format for me free of charge. That solves the barcode problem. > > The remaining problem is Spyder 2. Does anyone know if there is a > Lion-compatible app that will allow me to continue using my Spyder 2 screen > colour-calibrator? If not I will have to fork out for a new screen > calibrator. Does anyone have any recommendations? > > Regards, > > Ray Forma > Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
