Noplacetohide Posted November 14, 2021 Posted November 14, 2021 Why is there on way to scan images into AFFINITY PHOTO it is a great bit of software, but let down by this important feature.!
walt.farrell Posted November 14, 2021 Posted November 14, 2021 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Assuming you're on Windows, Serif have stated it's because their code runs in 64-bit mode, and there are few (if any) scanner manufacturers who are making hardware drivers that operate in 64-bit mode. Therefore, until there are drivers available they have decided not to include that function in Affinity. Users can use the software that came with their scanners, or other scanning programs, and then process the scanned files in their Affinity applications. I use VueScan, which allows me to scan and then send the scanned file directly to Affinity Photo if I want to. Other scanning software may have similar functionality. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop 1: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 26.0, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
PaulEC Posted November 14, 2021 Posted November 14, 2021 If you want free alternatives, you can scan directly into Irfanview or XNview and (once you set up a shortcut) send the scan to AP. Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 – Windows 11 Home - Affinity Publisher, Photo & Designer, v2
Noplacetohide Posted November 15, 2021 Author Posted November 15, 2021 Thanks for your help. will have a look at the software you mentioned
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