PEN and Digital INK Capabilities in Windows Vista

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PEN AND DIGITAL INK CAPABILITIES IN WINDOWS VISTA

Microsoft Windows Vista provides extensive support for pen* and touch input. When using the DTU-1931 with a computer running Windows Vista, your experience is enhanced by powerful note taking, handwriting recognition, fast navigation, and other digital inking options designed to give you quick, intuitive results with the Wacom pen.

•Note taking. Use your Wacom pen to jot notes and capture quick sketches in Windows Journal. Journal simulates a physical notebook, but with the advantages of digital note taking – you can choose from a variety of pen, marker, and highlighter tools. Journal also includes a powerful search engine that can even locate your handwritten content.

•Handwriting recognition. Because Windows Vista includes powerful handwriting recognition capabilities, you can use your Wacom pen to quickly enter handwritten information anywhere the computer accepts typed input. You can convert your handwritten content to typed text at any time.

•Gestures. Use your Wacom pen to make simple gestural movements on the pen display to trigger customizable actions for navigation, editing, and other functions. To customize your gestures, select the FLICKS tab in the PEN AND INPUT DEVICES control panel.

•Digital Ink in Microsoft Office 2007. Use your Wacom pen to full advantage with the enhanced digital mark-up and inking tools available in Microsoft Office 2007 applications running on Windows Vista. Found on the REVIEW tab within applicable applications, these tools provide a consistent set of inking options. For quick access, you can add specific inking tools to the Quick Access Toolbar located at the top of each application.

Note that the following workarounds in the pen tablet driver improve drawing performance in Vista:

•The Vista Pen Flicks and ‘press-and-hold-to-right-click’ features are disabled in graphics applications using the Wintab API.

•There is no pressure sensitivity in Journal and other Vista Ink features when both the Flicks and ‘press-and-hold-to-right-click’ features are disabled in the Vista PEN AND INPUT DEVICES control panel.

* Pen features supported in all versions of Windows Vista except Vista Home Basic.

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