[clue] pen tablet

Philipp Giddings webmaster at continentalbook.com
Mon Feb 13 15:59:03 MST 2012


I have a 4x6 model it works flawlessly in ubuntu plug and play, Draw on 
the surface and it show up in your application I use it with gimp and 
inkscape.
I wish it was bigger.
Philipp

On 2/13/2012 3:43 PM, David L. Willson wrote:
> OK, some follow-up questions, restricting my inquiry to Wacom.
> Do you use a Wacom device under Linux? If so...
> Which model do you have? How long have you had it, in years? How much 
> have you used it, in hours?
> What do you love or hate about it?
> Does it sync the screen to the drawing surface?
> How much did it cost?
> Does it prefer fingers or stylus/stylii?
>
> David L. Willson
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>
>     Hi David,
>
>     David L. Willson wrote:
>
>         Anyone out there have a rave for their favorite pen-based
>         tablet input device?
>
>         I'm looking for something to do on-screen white-boarding when
>         I don't have a white-board, or for some other reason, I want
>         to screen-cast, and for tweaking graphics, and such.
>
>         I'm considering going ghetto, and using paper, ink, and a
>         video-camera cabled to the computer, but it seems so ... ghetto.
>
>         Also, considering Wacom bamboo and this thing here:
>         http://www.amazon.com/Cyberpad-8-5X11-Black-Digital-Notepad/dp/B000C42MLE
>
>         So, I'm basically looking for your input and opinions. I want
>         to keep it simple, but I own a video-camera already, so that
>         solution comes at a discount.
>
>     Depending on how much money you have to spend on this "solution"
>     you could get a Smart Board or something like that from Smart
>     Technologies, http://www.smarttech.com/ .  They have interactive
>     displays of varying sizes with pen inputs, and accompanying
>     collaborative software application suites.
>
>     I've used some of smarttech's stuff and it's very wizzy.  It's
>     also relatively simple because they already did all of the
>     technology & software R&D, but perhaps for your purposes it might
>     be too expensive.  Also I'm not sure if their applications will
>     run on Linux.
>
>     Jim
>
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