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I briefly looked at "preview" So I'll have another look, but failing that the other 2. thanks.
I briefly looked at "preview" So I'll have another look, but failing that the other 2. thanks.
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Still loving the mac. Getting less & less, questions & problems as time goes on. Had it about 10 days.
I will try Xee, thanks.
I have a Canon Lide 30, scanner. I have installed it using both the CD & drivers from the net. It doesn't work. Is it compatable to mac? Shall I just forget it & get a new scanner? The canon site doesn't say, "you cannot use this scanner on a mac", there are drivers there, they just don't work!
Any thoughts?
Still loving the mac. Getting less & less, questions & problems as time goes on. Had it about 10 days.
I will try Xee, thanks.
I have a Canon Lide 30, scanner. I have installed it using both the CD & drivers from the net. It doesn't work. Is it compatable to mac? Shall I just forget it & get a new scanner? The canon site doesn't say, "you cannot use this scanner on a mac", there are drivers there, they just don't work!
Any thoughts?
Well since Canon hasn't upgraded their software since 10.4 use the shareware ViewScan since ViewScan supports that scanner.
Scanner & aperture.
Thanks for that. This software looks like it would solve the problem. It isn't free however! Can anybody suggest a free software? As money it tight!
Looking ahead a bit, in terms of getting fully up & running, I'm now turning my attention to the iMac/iPhone working together. I use dragon dictation, can I download that onto the mac? (via app store) I have 20 or 30 "notes" on the iPhone, can I import them & edit, send them via the mac? That wil probably mean sending back to the phone & texting from there.
I know I can integrate my contacts. I assume into outlook will work.
I'm hoping to get Apparure over the next day or so. Is it possible to scroll through images with a smallish thumbnail, with a larger image above & delete/rotate them? Also can it create a slideshow? If so can that then be viewable on a PC? If so, are they 100% secure, i do not want a client to be able to grab or in any way get at the images.
Thanks for that. This software looks like it would solve the problem. It isn't free however! Can anybody suggest a free software? As money it tight!
Looking ahead a bit, in terms of getting fully up & running, I'm now turning my attention to the iMac/iPhone working together. I use dragon dictation, can I download that onto the mac? (via app store) I have 20 or 30 "notes" on the iPhone, can I import them & edit, send them via the mac? That wil probably mean sending back to the phone & texting from there.
I know I can integrate my contacts. I assume into outlook will work.
I'm hoping to get Apparure over the next day or so. Is it possible to scroll through images with a smallish thumbnail, with a larger image above & delete/rotate them? Also can it create a slideshow? If so can that then be viewable on a PC? If so, are they 100% secure, i do not want a client to be able to grab or in any way get at the images.
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Thats a nuisance!
I found an old thread on here earlier; there are plenty of people who have the same problem. They mention a few different apps, so Ill have to look at those.
Another small annoyance is that I saved my outlook stuff (outlook 2007) on my old PC. I have imported that into the mac - outlook 2011. It goes through the motions of importing, but when done, there is nothing new there at all. I would like to have my email address (contacts) & the old emails, that I want to keep - refer back to.
Is it possible to tweak the iMac setting very slightly, to increase the size of the text, within the programs? I just find that on the 27-inch monitor, that could be very slightly larger.
Any thoughts anybody?
Thats a nuisance!
I found an old thread on here earlier; there are plenty of people who have the same problem. They mention a few different apps, so Ill have to look at those.
Another small annoyance is that I saved my outlook stuff (outlook 2007) on my old PC. I have imported that into the mac - outlook 2011. It goes through the motions of importing, but when done, there is nothing new there at all. I would like to have my email address (contacts) & the old emails, that I want to keep - refer back to.
Is it possible to tweak the iMac setting very slightly, to increase the size of the text, within the programs? I just find that on the 27-inch monitor, that could be very slightly larger.
Any thoughts anybody?
I second this.
I have an old cannon scanner (10yrs old I think) and after trying a few things bought VueScan. Its one of the few bits of software I have bought, and its great! I use the scan to PDF function alot myself for making electronic copies.
As for image software....
Gimp - free , powerful, similar features to photoshop, however can be a little buggy and slow (unless its improved)
Picasa - free - pretty good.
Acorn - £30 - I bought this in a "bundle" with other applications for about £25. I wouldn't say its the most featured editor, but I have found it very quick and easy to use to achieve most standard image editing tasks. It has become one of my favorites. (see App store)
As for ensuring images cant be grabbed.. Tumbleweed is right.. If you can view it on the screen it can be grabbed, if you really want it. Have you thought about watermarking your images in a discrete way?
Email addresses, Windows stores the contacts (addressbook.db I think) and you need to import these to "Address Book" on the mac. I have a feeling I exported them in outlook into a standard format before importing them into the Mac, to ensure no issues. But its couple of years ago and I'm not quite sure... All I know is I had everything importent installed and running in about 30 minutes. The rest was data.
Also.. something for you to look at if your constantly doing the same action with images is "Automator" Very powerful program, that I really should learn to use more. essentially it can take functions from just about any program ans put them in a sequence to run...
One thing that took me a while to realise when I switched was that.. with all the little programs and tweaks I had on windows for doing stuff, the Mac did almost everything I wanted out of the box with only a few exceptions.
a few more things...
Colour scheme. I like the traffic light colours, but do not like the BLUE, that goes with it. I changed to GRAPHITE but lost the traffic light colours, can I set graphite & the traffic lights together?
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OUTLOOK ..Can I set outlook 2011, to send & receive on start-up (of outlook)
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Word 2011 .Spell check, seams to be American (English), is it possible to change to English/English?
Colour scheme. I like the traffic light colours, but do not like the BLUE, that goes with it. I changed to GRAPHITE but lost the traffic light colours, can I set graphite & the traffic lights together?
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OUTLOOK ..Can I set outlook 2011, to send & receive on start-up (of outlook)
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Word 2011 .Spell check, seams to be American (English), is it possible to change to English/English?
Check this for some info -- there are also some suggestions earlier in tha thread ... http://www.mactalk.com.au/56/94672-word-2011-language-settings-stuck-us-eng.html#post1056018
Mostly centered around Tools > Language... menu.