I just discovered that X6 Draw and Paint 64 bit won't scan - the options are greyed out. I'm guessing this is because my Epson Twain Driver is 32 bit. Is there any chance this issue will be addressed in a service pack or update, and if so, can anyone guess at the timeline? I don't do that much scanning and if I get X6 I wouldn't want to keep X5 installed just on the off chance that I need to scan. Thanks.
So we both addressed this issue on both our blogs! There you go, its a good product.
It saved me a lot of time today.
Thanks for the links. Reading the blogs I think that Corel could have addressed this issue before releasing X6. The lack of 64 bit twain drivers was obviously well known and a third party seemed to have knocked out a part-solution very quickly. For myself I've just realised I can use the built in scanner provided by Microsoft that came with Windows 7. I don't do enough scanning to make it imperative to scan directly into Draw. Cheers.
Greatly Perturbed said:The lack of 64 bit twain drivers was obviously well known and a third party seemed to have knocked out a part-solution very quickly.
It wasn't actually knocked out that quickly. It was originally done awhile back with several beta users tesing it, but I needed to wait for the release to do some final cleanup and rebuild the project.
I can't use any Twain drivers in CS4 either, for my scanner anyway, which is the same as Stefan's. I can only use WIA Import, so I started digging into the WIA docs a little bit before I even knew Corel was going to do a 64-bit version. Twain is an old technology with roots back in the 16-bit days, although at least in preliminary tests, I did figure out how to make the 32-bit versions work in X6 64-bit and if it continues to go well, it will be in the next release of scanner control.
...there's some cooler things on the horizon...and it is Thanks to the Corel Dev Team that I can even pull this stuff off.
Greatly Perturbed said: Thanks for the links. Reading the blogs I think that Corel could have addressed this issue before releasing X6. The lack of 64 bit twain drivers was obviously well known and a third party seemed to have knocked out a part-solution very quickly. For myself I've just realised I can use the built in scanner provided by Microsoft that came with Windows 7. I don't do enough scanning to make it imperative to scan directly into Draw. Cheers.
Scanning directly into CorelDRAW or Photo-Paint or just about any program saves a lo of times. Especially if yo like me work with illustrations and graphic design, where I scan a lot of my hand drawn drawings, or clients with rough sketches to redraw and vectorize their logos from scratch.
We all have our workflow, but personally its crazy when the amount of images I scan at times have to go through windows or software outside Draw and PP.
Corel can only answer to why it wasnt implemented. But considering they will eventually fix it to work with X6 this solution by Steve B at Softbotz is a true god sent. It have saved a lot of time.
Considering Steve B at Softbotz have more things in the pieline with this one, its an interesting journey ahead.
ajwh said:Steve, I've tried it with my Epson V700, and it scans documents well. However, it doesn't seem to offer an option for transparency scanning. Is this a limitation of WIA? Silverfast 8 64 bit offers a Photoshop plugin. Is there any possibility that this could me made to work with X6-64? Andrew
...that is something I do not know, and if your driver doesn't offer it, I will need to check into it further.
There is really quite a bit to this WIA thing, Web Cam's, Camera's and even Telescopes. I don't know it thoroughly. My solution was something originally done just for myself and my scanner. The API is really quite extensive as well as are the supported devices, so I personally understand why Corel is getting some time under their belt with it.