domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) (11/15/90)
I see an ad for Cirrus, a ``professional scanning and processing program offering a wide range of editing tools, superior resolution and fast screen display. Images and image selections can be stored in EPSF, TIFF, RIFF, PICT, PostScript and MacPaint file formats, and different compressions are available.'' The Apple scanner is among the dozen types of scanner supported. As I'm heartily sick of the software that came with the Apple scanner. (AppleScan 1.0.2), an alternative is welcome. (AppleScan was, I believe, developed using MacApp, has a nasty modeful interface, uses command-P for something other than print, and is slow and clunky. Apart from that, it's fine.) (Cirrus does not support the popular and well-reviewed HP scanner. How surprising.) Does anybody have experience of Cirrus? (U.K. agent and/or publisher Heyden & Son.) Is it any good? Is it overkill for a 4-bit mono scanner such as the Apple Scanner? How much does it cost? (The ad is suspiciously reticent.) Is it worth it, given that I'm not a heavy scanner user? Usual scam: mail me and I'll summarize if volume of replies and/or requests justifies it. Or post of you want the world to know straight away. -- Dominic Dunlop