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Hi,

I'm looking at buying a film scanner that can handle 35 mm negative strips
and APS cartridges. My top-of-the-list choice at the moment is Canon's
FS-2710 scanner, but in typical Mac- and Wintel-centric fashion there is no
mention made of whether there is any support provided by Canon (in the form
of device drivers, etc.) for people using machines which run *nix in
preference to Windoze or Mac/OS.

Given that the FS-2710 has a fast-SCSI interface, the physical interfacing
side of the coin is already taken care of, but the software side is not
covered at all.

I'm aware of a package called PINT (PINT Is Not Twain), which could possibly
be used, but there is no mention on the specifications page (found at
"http://www.canon.com.au/cscpo/specfs2710.htm" for anyone who's interested)
about TWAIN support other than a comment about the CanoCraft FS driver being
TWAIN-complient (but of course it's a Wintel driver, so it's useless to
anyone using *nix).

Do you have one of these scanners, and if yes, have you used it successfully
with a machine running Solaris (or any other box which can use X11R6 as the
graphical sub-system)?

I need to know more about the software side before I can commit to a
purchase...

Regards,

Craig.
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