So we are are all aware that Twain is not supported by Corel or Windows now, which makes most of my scanners useless. The other way is to use WIA which has few controls and when I use it to acquire image in Corel 8 or 19 it brings in the image as if it was 400px on my 72px monitor. In other words the image which should be 11.5 x17 is now huge. Since I am using the scanner to copy patterns into the computer so I can trace them, they have to be exact. I have no idea how to make the image the correct size because the WIA box doesn't have any measurements/sizes other than the px, I was hoping to scan to 72 and see it that would work but it won't allow for a scan smaller than 100px.Can someone help me.ThanksOriole
I have a somewhat old Epson flatbed scanner. I have to use Epson's own "Epson Scan" utility to do any flatbed scanning work. You might check and see if the company that made your scanner has a scanning utility that is compatible with current versions of Windows.Thankfully my Epson scanner connects to the computer via USB rather than a dead cable standard like SCSI. In the 2000's I literally gave away a Linotype-Hell SCSI-based scanner; I paid around $1200 for that thing in the late 1990's. The scanner was pretty nice. It hurt getting rid of it, but all it was doing was consuming desk space. Film scanners have been going the same route.
Thanks for the reply, it is interesting because I did contact Plustek and they had a driver that they said would work with 64bit. I installed it twice and both times it crashed windows 10 so I couldn't get out of the lock screen on a restart. This morning I saw that the scanner was in both CD8 and 19. It seemed to scan in both programs but then hung without dropping the scan on the page. Weird. With 19 it crashed the program so had to alt+delete it. Coreldraw 5 still works fine. I figured out that WIA at 100px seems to be a match for the scan from Twain. When I put the WIA scan over the Twain scan they matched up but this was in CD5.I also see the WIA on CD19 keeps telling me that I don't have enough memory??? CorelDraw19 has been such a joke. I posted how slow it was and that they told me to get a new computer, which I did and it is still so slow that I can leave and get a cup of coffee while the wheel spins. I can't tell if this is a Windows 10 issue or CD issue.