Well, I hope the educational value of the last 45 min. is high.
Canon does offer a WIA driver for the 9950F for both 32 & 64 bit, up through
Vista, so far. They also offer TWAIN
drivers, 32 & 64 bit, through Win 7, oddly enough higher than for WIA drivers.
So I tried installing the Vista32 WIA driver. Had to restart, then PS
recognized it under the File=>Import=>WIA
Support. BUT!
- PS took forever to load. I don't know if this is a first time thing, but it
was painful. I was opening other apps and
doing things while I waited for it. I didn't try loading it again for the
following reasons.
- The WIA driver interface and functions are woefully less complete than the
TWAIN driver.
- Installation of the WIA driver replaces the TWAIN driver. You can't have both
at once.
- The CanoScan Toolbox, which I use for things like scan and OCR, doesn't
recognize WIA, and can't do anything.
I had to use Device manager to uninstall the WIA driver. Didn't allow TWAIN to
install the first time. Uninstall the
second time with the "Delete software" box checked. Then TWAIN installed
properly, PS loads quickly, CanoScan works
again and I have the full range of scanning controls back.
One benefit of all this is that I know a TWAIN driver exists for Win7, and
that's what I will install, along with the
PSCS6 TWAIN plug-in. If CS7 discontinues it, I can still use CanoScan to scan
and forward the file to PS. Hmmm ...
Perhaps that's a solution to 64 bit PS, passing a scan from a 32 bit app to 64
bit PS.
Whether this info is of any use to anyone else here, at least it will be an
info resource for me when I get my Win7
machine. ;-)
Never The Twain Moose
On 11/13/2012 2:22 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> As I followed your link I eventually realized that I was confusing TWAIN
> and WIA which I have always thought were different terms for the same
> function with WIA being the later development. Not completely so
> although Microsoft says WIA contains a TWAIN subset. The first bit of
> info is here which makes it clear that they are distinct facilities and
> that the PSCS6 TWAIN plug-in is 32 bit only.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> In Windows, the Photoshop TWAIN plug-in can be used if you run Photoshop
> CS6 in 32-bit mode. TWAIN is not supported in Photoshop when it’s run in
> 64-bit mode. If you need a scanning solution when you run Photoshop CS6
> in 64-bit mode, use the WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) interface for
> your device, if it’s available. WIA is also available for use when
> running Photoshop in 32-bit mode. Contact your scanner manufacturer for
> more information.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Then, since TWAIN is 32 bit only we have this answer from Epson about
> how to import 64 bit images into PhotoShop which is to use WIA instead
> of TWAIN. But that also comes with a very serious caveat. Although WIA
> supports 64 bit it's not full function. In particular no film scanning
> since the transparency unit is not supported in WIA. But WIA does make
> it easy to import scans from paper documents into PhotoShop directly
> from Epson Scan
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Use the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) from the File > Import menu to
> import images from the scanner.
>
> Note: The WIA driver does not offer all the features and control
> provided by the Epson Scan driver. It also does not support scanner
> options such as a Transparency Unit (TPU) for film scanning or an Auto
> Document Feeder.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> These things explain a lot of mysteries I encountered with CS5 (after
> CS3) and would have encountered in CS6 had you not brought it to my
> attention. Thanks.
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