Make Agfa's FotoLook software work in 10.3

Mar 01, '04 09:53:00AM

Contributed by: oem

Hi, as some of you may know, Fotolook doesn't work in Panther, but did in Jaguar. I just found a way to re-use Fotolook with a DUOSCan HID under Panther and this is very good news. I'm just giving the info, as I'm not the author of the original, which I found posted in comp.periphs.scanners:

I have a duoscan Agfa and I have find a solution. In Panther I have abilited ROOT user, then I have pasted in system>library>extensions the two Kext from system 10.2.8:

IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily - IOSCSIParallelFamily

The scanner work fine! The system is stable! Sorry for my "macaroni" english!
I tested it and it works like a charm -- I have Fotolook 3.6, a DUOSCAN HID, Adaptec 2930 and Panther 10.3.1.

[robg adds: As a general rule, I don't encourage taking bits of prior system releases and installing them on the current release; while they may be stable and seem to work fine, you don't really know why the code was modified between releases, and you're also potentially causing problems at your next system upgrade. However, if you need use Fotolook software in Panther, this may be your only solution -- just make sure you back up the original files first! You might also want to try VueScan, a third-party scanning package that works with many scanners.]

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