MacOS High Sierra
Posted by: Dungassin on 13 November 2017
Installed High Sierra this evening. Now my Canoscan LIDE 700F scanner doesn't work any more. Checked Canon website - no driver available for my scanner with High Sierra. Looks like I might have to buy a new scanner or revert to Sierra. Think I'll check how to 'go back' to Sierra.
Just a little (well, a lot) angry about this. Canon obviously think I and other users should junk a perfectly good scanner and buy a new one.
You can try running a Sierra VM in Parallels. Should be able to connect via USB.
Get hold of a copy of Vuescan, from
Vuescan has got a lot of extra function cf the base scanner support software.
Wow! Thanks, that's a great help Derek. My Dell scanner stopped being accessible a couple of OS updates ago.
Yep, VueScan is the way to go. I've been using it for the past 13 years and pretty much don't bother with anything else and as far as I recall have been immune from OS and other compatibility issues. I've got the 'for life' license which you might want to consider. If I recall correctly, there's a 30 day trial period too although I can't be 100% sure without checking.
There is a general purpose utility called Image Capture (part of OSX that works with cameras and scanners, but at a very basic level - I think it is the base code for a lot of customised apps.
Unfortunately, just getting to the scanner isn't enough. I use it to scan in my sheet music books in PDF format, so that I can carry ALL my large collection around with me (much less bulky!). The Canon software (MP e allowed me to do this very easily. It's very cumbersome, convoluted and slow to do it by just using the basic scanner driver. I can still use the scanner on my Epson all-in-one printer (XP-700), but their software has never seemed to work properly IMO. I will revert to Sierra later today when I can spare the time. Hopefully that will cure the problem.
Check out the facilities of Vuescan it can do some clever stuff.
As for getting PDF you can use Preview to convert Jpegs to PDFs and vice versa
Derek Wright posted:Check out the facilities of Vuescan it can do some clever stuff.
As for getting PDF you can use Preview to convert Jpegs to PDFs and vice versa
Yup, but very cumbersome and slow compared to using Canon's MP Navigator EX. I have restored my iMac to Sierra, BTW. Problem solved. Won't be moving to High Sierra unless the driver and software problems are fixed. Before contemplating it again, I would have to spend time on various companies websites checking for compatibility.
Did you read the Vuescan web site? - one of the features of the product is Scan to PDF
It's moot, as I've gone back to Sierra, and my Canon software works correctly. I've bookmarked the Vuescan site for use should I ever decide to install High Sierra. How does the Vuescan software perform as regards speed? I only ask because the Epson software is painfully slow, as against the respectable speed of the Canon stuff.
I'm staying with Sierra for now, because I've checked, and Sibelius 8 (music notation software) isn't compatible yet. Must go and check if dBpoweramp is compatible.
I've learned my lesson, and will not upgrade OS again without checking that all my current stuff will still work.
Dungassin posted:It's moot, as I've gone back to Sierra, and my Canon software works correctly. I've bookmarked the Vuescan site for use should I ever decide to install High Sierra. How does the Vuescan software perform as regards speed? I only ask because the Epson software is painfully slow, as against the respectable speed of the Canon stuff.
I'm staying with Sierra for now, because I've checked, and Sibelius 8 (music notation software) isn't compatible yet. Must go and check if dBpoweramp is compatible.
I've learned my lesson, and will not upgrade OS again without checking that all my current stuff will still work.
What attracted you to High Sierra? Your posting prompted me to have a quick shuftie at the specs. Apart from the fact that my iMac is getting a bit long in the tooth (runs Sierra ok, but not particularly quickly), didn't see much that looked like a 'must have'. Am I missing something?
Tim : nothing in particular. I just got fed up of the reminder which kept appearing on my desktop, and I was feeling a bit tired when I did it. Of course, now that I have reverted to Sierra, it's appearing again.
I'm a bit of a cynic and sometimes think that OS upgrades, whether Mac or PC, are really partially designed to make people change their hardware because the update runds more slowly.
I'm becoming very loth to upgrade my iDevices for the same reason.
Too true! It used to be primarily Microsoft who produced 'bloat ware' designed to entice us to upgrade to the next level of Pentium processor (I'm convinced they had a deal with Intel) but unfortunately Apple seem to be up to the same tricks. I'm almost tempted to roll my Mac back to Snow Leopard!!
I think that OS upgrades, like most upgrades, occur because programmers need the work. The programmer who says, "This is good enough" is a programmer who will soon be out of a job.
I foolishly upgraded to 10.11.6 and everything crawls along in Firefox now. Irritatingly so. In Safari it is fine. If I was not such a lemon when it comes to IT I would go back to my previous OS. I will have to get someone in to do it as it has also disabled Timemachine as well.
A new Firefox was released today - claimed to be faster than before. No probs so far on my machine