Hi Gerry,
I just downloaded the PIM plug-in for the Epson 1280 to give the installation files a peek. It appears that this is more than just a "simple" plug-in where you can put one file into your plug-ins directory and be done with it.
After unzipping the PIM installer and looking at the files, I found a "setup.inx" file appears to query the Windows registry for information, perhaps that being the location of a PS6, PS7, PE1, or PE2 installation and possibly adding other entries. That same file suggests that the plug-in is to be installed, for Photoshop, in the Plug-ins/Adobe Photoshop Only/Import-Export directory. So, I suggest that if you still have PS6 or PS7 installed, you search that directory to see if the following files reside there (or perhaps under an Epson subdirectory):
EpExifpi.dll
EPPIM2pi.DLL
EpTiffpi.dll
PRINT Image Matching II.8ba
If you locate those files all in the same directory, you might try simply copying them to the same corresponding directory in the Photoshop CS path. At the very least, I’d expect you to find the last file since that is the plug-in itself. The other files may wind up in higher directory levels within the PS path, or else as system files in WINDOWS, WINDOWS\SYSTEM, or WINDOWS\SYSTEM32.
The installer includes other CAB files which likely are extracted to install other files. I’m going to guess they too are placed elsewhere on your system. If so, then hopefully they are common or system files that would support multiple installations of the plug-in for someone who has any mix of the supported applications on their system. That should bode well for copying files to the PS CS path as a way of manually installing the plug-in.
In other words, hopefully you’ll not have to do anything more than copy select files from an earlier PS version to the PS CS path.
If this doesn’t work, another alternative may be to attempt to "fool" the installer…temporarily rename your existing, older Photoshop installation to some other name. Then, rename your Photoshop CS directory to the same name as the older Photoshop directory, such as "Photoshop 7.0". See if the PIM installer will run under those conditions. If so, give that a try and then revert the directory names back to their correct original names.
Note that if the installer does place any entries into the Windows registry that specify the installation path, then the prior approach may not work since restoring the directory names would have effectively redirected the entries back to the original location. I hope that makes sense.
If you are comfortable with editing the Windows registry, then you may be able to go farther with this, but I’ll omit getting into that since registry edits are a riskier process to perform if you don’t understand what you’re doing. All I’ll say is that if you do know how to edit the registry and can locate the keys created for the PIM installation in the older PS version, then you may be able to add keys for the new location in the same area of the registry.
Oh, one more thing…There is also a possibility that the PIM installer looks not just for the installation path of Photoshop but also the executable itself. If so, be aware that the PS6 executable was named "photoshp.exe" while for PS7 it was "photoshop.exe". So, you’d want to temporarily rename your PS CS executable if PS6 is what you’ve got as your prior version.
I hope that helps,
Daryl
Gerry,
In case you return to this thread, I just tried installing the PIM II plug-in to my Photoshop CS installation. I did this by renaming Photoshop 7.0 to "temp" and then running the PIM installer to see if it would see the PS CS installation at all…it didn’t. Instead, the installer created its own "Photshop 7.0" folder and installed everything there.
As it turns out, the four files I mentioned previously are the only ones installed in the Photoshop path. So, it was easy to simply copy the files into the Photoshop CS path, delete the new Photoshop 7.0 directory created by the installer, and rename "temp" back to Photoshop 7.0. While I don’t have any P.I.M.-enabled images, I nonetheless was successful in using the Import > Print Image Matching II dialog in Photoshop CS to import one of my digital camera images. So, it looks as though copying the files from your older Photoshop installation to the new one will probably work.
Regards,
Daryl
