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Re: Tablet (Wacom or other)

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, wexfordpress wrote:

> 1. Do you have drawing tablet attached to your computer?
>
No, but I picked one up on the weekend.  Unfortunately, smorgasbord of 
garbage did not include the pen.  I never thought about that at the time, 
so I have no idea whether it was there or not.

> 2. Which one?
An older serial one, from Wacom.

>
> 3. Do you find it useful compared to alternative ways of creating
> images?
>
I was tempted at seeing them for about $80, but I don't draw that much. 
However, for free (or if the pen isn't too expensive, for the price of the 
pen), it obviously becomes more tempting.  I've scribbled things on paper, 
little diagrams that I've traced of something, and then scanned the paper 
in order to keep the information handy (it beats digging through piles of 
scraps of paper), and a tablet would eliminate the intermediate step of 
drawing on paper then scanning.  I imagine if someone was doing a lot of 
original drawing, the tablet would be really useful, since it isn't that 
easy to draw something with the mouse and Gimp.  The tablet has the 
advantage of being "natural".

I suspect if I get the tablet going (ie I get the pen), I would use it.

> 4. Where did you go for special software drivers?
>
There's a HOWTO on the wacom tablet and Linux, I'm not sure how up to date 
it is. It should explain things.

> 5. What programs do you use with your tablet (e.g., Gimp, Krita etc.)
>
Likely that depends on what you are already using.

   Michael

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Tablet (Wacom or other) wexfordpress <john@wexfordpress.com> - 2011-06-29 07:09 -0700
  Re: Tablet (Wacom or other) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-06-29 10:45 -0400
  Re: Tablet (Wacom or other) Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2011-06-29 20:37 +0200

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