Pen And Digital Ink Capabilities In Windows Vista - Wacom Bamboo Fun User Manual

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 Bamboo Fun pen.
• Note taking. Use your Bamboo Fun 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 Bamboo Fun 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 Bamboo Fun 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 Bamboo Fun 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
F tab in the P
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• Digital Ink in Microsoft Office 2007. Use your Bamboo Fun 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 R
inking options. For quick access, you can add specific inking tools to the Quick Access Toolbar located
at the top of each application.
Note: The following workarounds have been implemented in the pen tablet driver to improve drawing
performance and to minimize spurious double-clicks issued by Vista under the following settings:
• The Vista Flicks and Press-and-hold-to-right-click features were disabled in most 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 P
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