Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan

["Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <mlidaka@ameritech.net>]

Yes, but that would require a preview rescan anyway, which could be made 
automatic, absent a MAJOR modification of the program.

But I'm not a programmer so I'll leave any further comments to Ed.

Maris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hersch Nitikman" <hersch@silcom.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan


Maris, if I understood Stan, he'd like a dynamic update of the preview, 
like Photoshop does with the Levels dialog box, and others, so you can see 
what you are doing, as you do it..
Hersch

At 10:43 PM 12/04/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>What difference would that make, as the changes would not appear until you 
>clicked "Preview" again or "Prev Mem"?
>
>Maris
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "S Schwartz" <snsok@swbell.net>
>To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:31 PM
>Subject: RE: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan
>
>
>Ed,
>
>I do wish it were possible to have the preview box open and visible as you
>make changes on the color tab or device tab. I recall you mentioned that as
>a possible user-selectable option in the future.
>
>Stan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of EdHamrick@aol.com
>Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 4:30 PM
>To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>Subject: Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs.
>Vuescan
>
>
>In a message dated 12/4/2001 4:55:46 PM EST, albatros.bee@web.de writes:
>
> > I´d like to add a question: Its true that VueScan has gained a very
> >  favorable reputation amongst serious scanner users (I like the results
>too),
> >  however almost everybody seems to agree - me included - that the user
> >  interface is not only "unpleasing to the eye" but also not very
>confortable.
> >  No buttons or shortcuts, no browser boxes for file locations etc etc -
>it´s
> >  a bit like shareware 6 or 7 years ago.
>
>You think it's ugly now - you should have seen it a year ago <smile>.
>
>It's improving a lot more rapidly than you realize.  I just did
>a count, and there have been 199 releases since March 1999.
>That's an average of one new version every 5 days for almost
>three years.
>
> >  So, have you planned to modernize - at a moment when no new important
> >  scanner is released - the GUI in the future?
>
>I plan on continuing to improve it with a new version every
>3 or 4  days.  I don't plan on revolutionary change, but instead
>on evolutionary change.
>
>For instance, I'm very close to adding dialog boxes for
>file name selection instead of typing file names.
>
>Regards,
>Ed Hamrick
>
>
>