Hi Ray, Are you running Windows in a virtual machine such as Paralles or VMWare, or as an alternate boot system using BootCamp? If so, this article may be of interest to you:
http://blog.pinkbluephotography.com/2011/07/22/using-spyder-2-for-mac-os-10-7-lion/ If not you can only hope that Spyder updates their drivers to run on Lion. Their new products will have to run on Lion so they may backport the drivers to the legacy products. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-23, at 23:58, 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:[email protected]> > -- 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:[email protected]>
