LaserSoft Imaging

Dear Offline,

Thanks for giving an insight and perspective into the whole topic.

Cheers

Tim says "Silverfast relies on driver support from the manufacturer."
In Lion, will the list of scanners supported be the same?

I have a CanoScan 8000F, for which Canon is not helpful with drivers.
Will SilverFast find my scanner without Rosetta?

Dear Erick,

It is too early to tell. As correctly pointed out, SilverFast works based on the drivers from the manufacturer. If the scanner manufacturer does not provide those drivers, it might complicate things. It might also be possible that the actual drivers work.

My advice, do not drop your actual systems until you are absolutely sure the scanner works with the new operating system.

Cheers

Eric, Apple "just" (as in two days ago) updated the drivers for Canon printers and all-in-ones for OSX. Canoscan drivers were NOT part of this update. Keep an eye out for a separate scanner driver update from Canon in the future - I would think it couldn't be too far behind.

Tim

I'd like to be encouraged, but Canon seems to have dropped support for this line, or at least for my 8000F.
I guess Canon doesn't expect its scanners to last all that long ... Thanks anyway.

Hi Erick

As I said before, it is still too early, the operating system is not out yet. Perhaps the driver you are using now might work with the next OS.

I suggest you wait until the OS is out and then you can preoccupy yourself

Cheers

"Perhaps the driver you are using now might work with the next OS."

But SilverFast requires Rosetta with this CanoScan, and Apple is dropping Rosetta in Lion. So we Canon customers are apparently stuck in a dead end.

I've had a thread running under "New features wishlist" forum since 2007 requesting Universal Binaries, without any success, see http://forum.silverfast.com/universal-binary-t5058.html

My recent request for an update saw the thread locked by LSI_Morales and a suggestion to look at this thread for answers. I don't see any here either, only the usual avoidance.

Interesting that Offline points out that Lion is dropping support for the early Intel processors, whilst Silverfast is still compiled specifically for the architecture which preceded that.

Intel Macs were released on January 10th 2006. PowerPC (and thus Universal) binaries were dropped from the main OS in August 2009, and only supported via optional emulator.

Hopefully 2011 might bring the long awaited 2006 technology to Silverfast.

Dear DJ

DJ wrote:Interesting that Offline points out that Lion is dropping support for the early Intel processors, whilst Silverfast is still compiled specifically for the architecture which preceded that.

Exactly and then I proceed to answer "we are working hard on that".

To make SilverFast completely Universal Binaries we would have to completely re-program SilverFast from ground up. It was a necessary step which we had planned for the next product generation among other enhancements.

Cheers

Thank you for your clarification about Lion (but especially, "native X86" support")

Scanning thousands of slides, even a little improvement in processing time can mean a lot to us.

Given that once upgraded to Lion it will probably be very difficult to "downgrade", I suggest you either try to come up with the new release quickly after availability, or/and contact your registered customers to inform then to "wait" for the upgrade.

I personally would not mind paying something for the "x86" upgrade, which could conveniently be distributed via AppStore ("something" = not the retail price of a new package, but a special price for existing customers, given this will be a "major" release).

Dear mbarsot

mbarsot wrote:Thank you for your clarification about Lion (but especially, "native X86" support")

Sure.

mbarsot wrote:Scanning thousands of slides, even a little improvement in processing time can mean a lot to us.

I totally agree

mbarsot wrote:Given that once upgraded to Lion it will probably be very difficult to "downgrade", I suggest you either try to come up with the new release quickly after availability, or/and contact your registered customers to inform then to "wait" for the upgrade.

We are working on that.

Cheers

So, it has been officially released today.
Any plans when a Lion-version of silverfast is going to be released?
There is just a press release from march that says it IS Lion-ready.

best,

daniel

I tried to launch SilverFast AI Version 6.6 (Canon CanoScan 8800F) with the SF Universal Launcher and get the following (it worked yesterday):

SF Universal Launcher quit unexpectedly.

Hello,
So when can we expect SilverFast for OS X Lion & Canon 8800F ?

Take care,

P. G.

Big problems after installing OSX 10.7 lion on my 6 core 3.33 Mac Pro, Silverfast Universal Launcher does not work, it crashes and the disk no longer works either as it is a Power PC application, no longer supported. The scanner is recognized, a 9000ED...