On 12 Aug 2005 at 21:02, Mark Dodge wrote: > If it is a USB then good luck
The scanner/printer I'm trying to use is an HP 3100 parallel I/F. Picked it up for dirt (well $100 worth of it) as a demo, few years back. Never used it much for scanning, but got this idea that I may be able to scan some text and save as PDF. The 3100 is good, because it can scan (B&W) several pages, one after another. I have at one time or another installed other TWAIN devices that were showing up, but my HP 3100 was not. I think, I finally got to the bottom if it. . All the TWAIN devices install .ds files in one of several directories under Windows, such as /TWAIN, TWIN32, TWAIN_32. TWAIN capable apps can use these devices and must look in those directories. Puzzling that it is not one, but several directories. I removed the .ds files and that took care of the lingering devices. Furthermore, I found that bits of some the scanning apps were lingering in the memory and "held" the TWAIN driver for the particular (HP) scanner. After installing/reinstalling the HP tools many times, I think I somewhat have a handle on this, but still have to reboot to get it work with just one TWAIN device visible. I'll add back a couple of others and see if they get along :-) FWIW, there are several small free apps that will convert .tif or .bmp files into PDF. Others will compress them. See: http://www.planetpdf.com/ Rich -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
