User manual UMAX ASTRA 4000U

[. . . ] Astra 4000U Owner's Manual Trademarks UMAX is a trademark of UMAX Technologies, Inc. IBM PC/AT is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporations. MS-Windows, Windows, and MS-DOS are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other names and trademarks appearing herein are trademarks of their respective holders. 1 Table of Contents CHAPTER 1. [. . . ] Application ­ sends the scanned item to the applications specified in the VistaScan Preferences. E-mail ­ sends the scanned item as a graphic file to your Microsoft Exchange or Lotus cc:Mail email application. Using the Multiple Scan Mode You can select multiple portions of the image you scanned in Preview mode using the Multiple Frame tool. The Multiple Frame tool allows you to create two or more selection frames in the Preview Window. After you have scanned an image in Preview scan mode, click on the Multiple Frame tool. Select the area you want contained in the first frame by clicking on the point at which you want to begin the frame, and then dragging the tool diagonally until the area of interest is contained in the marquis box. To create other frames, repeat steps 1 and 2 until you have created all the desired frames. After you create a frame, the Single Frame tool is automatically selected so you can resize or move the frame you just created. 3. 4. To select one of the frames you created, double-click on the desired frame. The frame border of the active frame changes to a marquis style frame (dotted lines). Once a frame is selected, double-click on a frame to display the Job Information window for that image, which contains the image information. 23 To remove a selected frame: 1. Thumbnails of the selected frames appear in the job list window. 2. Click on the thumbnail of the frame you want to remove. The frame in the Preview window associated with the thumbnail changes to a dashed outline. Click on the X button, located in the bottom-left corner of the thumbnail, to remove the frame. 3. Using the Color Adjustment Features The Color Adjustment features allow you to make adjustments to the colors and/or tones in an image. The following lists the color adjustment settings you can modify: · · · · Brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, and gamma Image tones Color balance Rotation/Invert Adjusting Image Brightness, Contrast, Highlights, and Shadows When you click on the Brightness/Contrast tab from the Color Adjustment panel a series of slide bars appear. Adjust the associated tones by dragging the slider in one of the bars to the left or the right. Using the Brightness Bar This setting determines the overall intensity level (gray level) of an image. Moving the slider on the scroll bar to the right increases the brightness. The Maximum brightness setting is 100, the minimum setting is ­100. 24 Using the Contrast Bar This setting controls the difference between light and dark areas in an image. Moving the slider on the scroll bar to the right increases the gray shades between light and dark areas. Moving it to the left decreases gray shades between light and dark areas. Highlight Bar This setting defines the lightest (whitest) tones in the scanned image. If you broaden the range that includes the highlight points, the pixels within the newly specified range to be remapped allowing you to see more details in a color/gray image. Moving the slider on the scroll bar to the left increases the brightness. The maximum highlight setting is 255; the minimum setting is 1 (white). [. . . ] Solution: Disable virtual memory, reboot your computer with the extensions disabled (hold down the SHIFT key during re-boot) and try again. Booting with the shift key still loads the UMAX scanner extension required for scanning. Problem: Your system goes to the Finder when you try to acquire the scanner. Problem: The following error message appeared: "Error: Not enough Power to Function" Solution: The Macintosh OS generates this message if: · · · A device draws too much power from the USB bus One or more devices plugged into a hub require more power than is available You attached a self-powered device (such as a printer or floppy drive) to your computer without plugging it into an electrical outlet. Remove all other devices from the USB chain, so the scanner is the only device on the USB chain. [. . . ]