One last time.
I'm sure we all can use different programs to open Leaf files. That is simply a matter of preference - and that's why those programs exist, in the first place.
I still have no answer why Sinar and Leaf claim it's too difficult to get PC versions of their software out? Other back manufacturers do it. Software only companies do it. What is the technical problem that seems to be unique to these two companies?
Cheers,
Kumar
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I did not claim that it was too difficult, because it isn't.
However, the imaging-creative-photographic industry, historically, is dominated by Apple computers.
Being part of Scitex/ Creo/ Kodak since 1992, we've "grown" in a Mac environment with most resources coming from MacOS programming etc.
In the mid-80's, when Leaf was still a small American company, the first products were actually run by a Windows software (LeafScan 35 and 45, Leaf Lumina...).
In the last 3-4 years, the demand for a Windows version has indeed started to grow. Still we are looking at a minority that is mostly coming from the corporate, education, military and architechture sectors, along with the social-wedding sector.
LeafCapture 10 is written as a cross-platform software, meanning it looks and functions similiarily on both Windows and MacOS platforms.
Other companies indeed have Windows versions, although from my experience they are not as fully featured as the relative Mac vesrions. You will also notice that these softwares are rarely demonstrated on Windows machines.
As I mentioned before, our Windows version is currently at a Beta stage.
I had a Sony Vaio T2300 laptop for a few weeks recently, which I was using for testing and demonstrating the Windows version with our Aptus backs in both tethered and portable modes with good results. For tethering I used a $20 PCMCIA FW card and a $25 FW booster from [a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/vhvnz]HERE[/url] with no problems at all.
I hope this helps
BR and Happy Holidays
Yair