From: Ann Barcomb Date: 15:38 on 04 Apr 2007 Subject: Reasons why I hate ScanGear CS ScanGear CS is Canon's scanning software for the CanoScan LiDE 25, for MacOSX. It might be available for other operating systems, and it might apply to other scanners. It's a cheap scanner, I'll admit that. But I assumed that would just mean that it was slooowww (it is), and that it would break quickly (it has: it scans upside down, and about one month after I got it it stopped scanning all the way to the edge of the page). But that doesn't excuse these problems: * It is impossible to save the images it has scanned until you exit the program. You scan several pages, quit the program, and then you get an opportunity to save. * Like many OSX applications, this piece of software wants to put a ucfirst directory in my home directory, namely 'Pictures' with a subdirectory 'My Pictures'. It does this even when I've set a different default directory for saving files. If I remove the directory and start the scanning software, it recreates the directory, thereby cluttering up my home directory. Taken individually, both of these features are annoying. Together, however, you get the fun I experienced today when I scanned 20 pages. Scanning is a slow, boring task, so I cleaned up my home directory while I was doing it. MacOSX puts a lot of stupid directories (starting with uppercase letters--if they were dot directories I wouldn't care) in your home directory, and most of them can be deleted. Those that it requires will be recreated. Anyhow, I finished scanning, hit quit, and...the application quit, without giving me a chance to save the images. I hate this scanner. - Ann Two other minor bits of suck about this software: * You can't resize the window when it is scanning. * It launches finder after I save the files. I know where I saved them; if I want finder launched, I'll launch it myself.
From: A. Pagaltzis Date: 16:15 on 04 Apr 2007 Subject: Re: Reasons why I hate ScanGear CS * Ann Barcomb <ann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> [2007-04-04 16:45]: > ScanGear CS is Canon's scanning software for the CanoScan LiDE > 25, for MacOSX. It might be available for other operating > systems, and it might apply to other scanners. I don’t think I’ve seen a single vendor-supplied scanning application that wasn’t hateful beyond belief. I assume the situation is a bit better if you buy hardware that costs upwards of 10,000 quid, but if you're buying consumer hardware, expect massive sucktitude. Regards,
From: David Cantrell Date: 19:48 on 04 Apr 2007 Subject: Re: Reasons why I hate ScanGear CS A. Pagaltzis wrote: > I assume the > situation is a bit better if you buy hardware that costs upwards > of 10,000 quid No, you just get gold-plated Suck, and someone to shout at about it. Not that shouting at them ever fixes anything.
From: Peter da Silva Date: 01:16 on 05 Apr 2007 Subject: Re: Reasons why I hate ScanGear CS > It is impossible to save the images it has scanned until you exit the > program. You scan several pages, quit the program, and then you get > an opportunity to save. I ran in to this utterly inexplicable behavior in HP's scanning software for the Officejet scanner I recently bought for Stephanie. How can someone with the intelligence to use a keyboard think that this might be desirable? This goes beyond hateful into some strange realm where it hurts to even think about the design. This idea that both HP and Canon have independently come up with this incomprehensible behavior just breaks me. There are no words. Not my brain think. To even. No. No. No. No. No.
From: Ricardo SIGNES Date: 06:11 on 05 Apr 2007 Subject: Re: Reasons why I hate ScanGear CS * Ann Barcomb <ann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> [2007-04-04T10:38:44] > ScanGear CS is Canon's scanning software for the CanoScan LiDE 25, for > MacOSX. It might be available for other operating systems, and it might > apply to other scanners. Tell me about it... I remain dumbfounded that there is no Mac OS X "iScan" or something. Is it still too hard to say "get the image from the attached device"?
From: Simon Cozens Date: 10:28 on 05 Apr 2007 Subject: Re: Reasons why I hate ScanGear CS Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > I remain dumbfounded that there is no Mac OS X "iScan" or something. Is it > still too hard to say "get the image from the attached device"? That'd be "Image Capture", then. Of course it's fairly hateful because (a) you had to know that, and (b) it's very confusing to use.
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