Have a scanner? Get GraphicConverter X 4.4!

[simX]

TWAIN Acquire is now supported in Mac OS X, using GraphicConverter X 4.4!

All you people waiting for scanner support.... here it is! Have fun.

[benpoole]

Wow, if that's true for all those unsupported scanners... awesome!

GraphicConverter is a great application: how does that guy get so many updates out? He puts bigger commercial software houses to shame.

[fryke]

Well, the development cycles are different, of course. GC has started out as a very simple 'Graphics Converter'. More and more features were added over time.

The many releases mean both that he includes many new features and that bugfixes *must* come out, because as a user you're basically also a beta tester.

It's a shame though that Adobe doesn't usually evolve their versions. InDesign is the big exception, which got more features with 1.5.2. Normally a 'final build' of Photoshop or Illustrator has a very, very long X.0.1 life.

But that's just the difference in marketing strategies. GC's image *lives* from being small with incremental updates. So does, for example, OmniWeb.

[neutrino23]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I don't think this is anything new. My copy of GC 4.2 for OS X also says it has TWAIN support. I have actually used this once in OS 9 long ago.

What this means is that you get a TWAIN plugin from your scanner vendor and drop it into GC's plugins folder. Then GC can make the correct calls to the scanner. The scanner manufacturer must then transfer these calls to the scanner via their custom plugin. We still have to wait for plugins to come from the scanner manufacturers.

[Nummi_G4]

GC is a nice app. But it does not have layers like Pshop. That makes it impossible to make great stuff. I bought GC just so I could play in OS X untill I get Pshop 7.0

[Sogni]

hmmm...
I've had no problems with Epson Scan to File and scanning directly in Photoshop 7.

::runs away fast & far::

[scruffy]

GC in combination with a couple of free apps - especially the Gimp - is a pretty darned good set of tools.

Granted the Gimp's interface is not what you'd call elegant, but the power is not half bad. And you can't beat the price

[Bluefusion]

Well, I'll tell ya if it works on mine. My scanner is by such a piece of crap company (I HATE CANON) that they've basically decided they won't bother to support the two most popular scanners of last year--the N1240U and the N650U (which is what I have). MILLIONS of people have one of those two scanners, and Canon doesn't give. It makes sense though, since their OS X printer drivers (I used to have a Canon printer) don't tell you how much INK is LEFT --you just wait and one day it starts printing all blue or whatnot and then you say, "oh, no, time for more ink!")

So, hopefully GC will work--like all other canon products, this is an absolutely great scanner backed by one of the worst companies in the history of imaging.