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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 pen tablet 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 Graphire pen.
•Note taking. Use your Graphire pen to jot notes and capture quick sketches in Microsoft 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, plus an eraser that is easily activated by the eraser end of your Graphire pen. 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 Graphire 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 Graphire pen to make simple gestural movements on the tablet 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 Graphire pen to full advantage with the enhanced digital
Note: The following workarounds in the pen tablet driver improve drawing performance in Vista:
•The Vista Pen Flicks and
•There is no pressure sensitivity in Journal and other Vista Ink features when both the Flicks and Press-
* Pen features supported in all versions of Windows Vista except Vista Home Basic.
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