Twain Support

**MVMusic** · 28 March 2015, 03:10 PM

Something I have wanted for a long time is:

1.- The ability to scan from within the application
2.- To be able to create and offset vector shadows on text, like CD has (or used to)

**Acorn** · 28 March 2015, 04:09 PM

On 2., it exists:

Enter a line of text.
Clone it.
Put the clone, offset onto a different layer (do not use MouseOver & MouseOff, you need Mouseoff and some other layer).
Colour, feather and tweak either or both.
Soft-group the two text lines.

Can you describe or demonstrate the effect that CorelDraw uses?

Acorn

**MVMusic** · 28 March 2015, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by Acorn

On 2., it exists:

Enter a line of text.
Clone it.
Put the clone, offset onto a different layer (do not use MouseOver & MouseOff, you need Mouseoff and some other layer).
Colour, feather and tweak either or both.
Soft-group the two text lines.

Can you describe or demonstrate the effect that CorelDraw uses?

Acorn

I do vinyl cutting and in order to use it, the shadow needs to be placed and trim manually, it there's a lot of text or I need to do it several times or match something else, it becomes time consuming. It's been many years since I use CD, but I remember it was very interactive and it had many options such as different perspectives. I have probably never done in Xara manually...

**mwenz** · 28 March 2015, 04:41 PM

No, a feathered object is a bitmap once exported.

As for scanning? Use Irfanview for scanning. Or a dedicated scanning application. There is far more control in the scanning process using something other than Twain in-app.

**MVMusic** · 28 March 2015, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by mwenz

No, a feathered object is a bitmap once exported.

As for scanning? Use Irfanview for scanning. Or a dedicated scanning application. There is far more control in the scanning process using something other than Twain in-app.

Yes, because it's a bitmap It cannot be die cut, that's why I want to have interactive (and solid) vector shadows.
I was using the scanning utility that is available someplace here because it was small and straight forward, but now my very old scanner doesn't work with Win7 64 bit. If Xara added the twain support, I would probably get a new scanner, even though, now a lot of photos and similar are worked through email...

**mwenz** · 28 March 2015, 06:52 PM

See if VueScan has you scanner listed. It's what I use.

http://www.hamrick.com

Mike

**MVMusic** · 28 March 2015, 07:31 PM

Thank you for the link Mike, unfortunately my scanner didn't work with the software...

**Acorn** · 28 March 2015, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by MVMusic

Yes, because it's a bitmap It cannot be die cut, that's why I want to have interactive (and solid) vector shadows.

OK, throw away the feathering and you have vectored detail to work with.
Acorn

**steve.ledger** · 28 March 2015, 09:08 PM

For a decal cut using a vinyl plotter/cutter use the contour tool.
See my 2009 post here
► http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...579#post324579

**MVMusic** · 28 March 2015, 09:11 PM

What I'm getting at is to have the shadow behind the text and be able to move it freely and in perspective while at the same time having also the sides of the text (or the walls) being part of the shadow. Just like the 3D option, but with vectors. Doing manually is very time consuming since I'll have to blend shapes, join them and then delete points.