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CONTENTS
About the manual
Navigating the manual
CUSTOMIZING
Opening the control panel
Control panel overview
Control panel settings
Calibrating the pen display
Customizing the pen
Optional pens
Adjusting tip feel and double-click
Adjusting eraser feel
Advanced tip and eraser pressure settings
Customizing tool buttons
Button functions
Customizing tilt sensitivity
Using Cintiq with other monitors
Customizing the tablet functions
Customizing ExpressKeys
Customizing tablet Touch Strips
Advanced Touch Strip settings
Customizing the Pop-up Menu
Working with Display Toggle
Working with multiple tools
Working with application-specific settings
Creating an application-specific setting
Changing settings for
a specific tool and application
Removing application-specific settings
Changing the tablet mode
Installing multiple tablets
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  • Page 1 Adjusting eraser feel Advanced tip and eraser pressure settings Customizing tool buttons Button functions Customizing tilt sensitivity Using Cintiq with other monitors Customizing the tablet functions Customizing ExpressKeys Customizing tablet Touch Strips Advanced Touch Strip settings Customizing the Pop-up Menu...

  • Page 2: About The Manual

    Index ABOUT THE MANUAL This document provides quick access to information about the Cintiq pen display. Click on a navigation button or highlighted word to move through the document. The information is common to Windows and Macintosh computers and Windows screen captures are shown, unless otherwise noted.

  • Page 3: Navigating The Manual

    Contents Index NAVIGATING THE MANUAL Use the navigation controls to move through the manual: Go to front page. CONTENTS Go to table of contents. INDEX Go to index. Go back to previous view. Page back, or page forward. HEADING TEXT Go to beginning of section.

  • Page 4: Customizing

    Index CUSTOMIZING After you master the basics of using your Cintiq pen display, you may want to customize the way Cintiq works. This chapter describes how to use the Wacom Tablet control panel to adjust your pen display and input tool settings.

  • Page 5: Control Panel Overview

    Contents Index CONTROL PANEL OVERVIEW Use the Wacom Tablet control panel to customize Cintiq. The upper portion of the control panel displays icons representing your s, and the A s with customized tool settings. ABLET PPLICATION Choose F UNCTIONS to customize your...

  • Page 6: Customizing The Tablet Functions

    Cintiq input tool(s). CONTROL PANEL SETTINGS Use these sections as a reference when working with the Wacom Tablet control panel; they provide detailed information about each tab and some of the more complex topics. Many of the sections also contain useful customizing tips.

  • Page 7: Calibrating The Pen Display

    This is required to adjust for parallax caused by the display screen cover glass and coating. Set Cintiq in its working position, then follow the procedure below. Important: When using a VGA connection with Cintiq, make sure the LCD monitor is properly adjusted before calibrating the tablet.

  • Page 8: Customizing The Pen

    Airbrush fingerwheel within the application. Please refer to the documentation that came with your application for details. If you will be using these optional tools on your pen display tablet, be sure to visit Wacom’s web site for a list of applications that currently support the advanced features of these tools.

  • Page 9: Adjusting Tip Feel And Double-Click

    Index ADJUSTING TIP FEEL AND DOUBLE-CLICK To adjust the tip sensitivity of your Cintiq pen, select the P tab. To create broad brush strokes or to click with a light touch, use a soft tip setting. For maximum control while drawing thin lines, use a firm tip setting.

  • Page 10: Adjusting Eraser Feel

    Contents Index ADJUSTING ERASER FEEL To adjust the eraser sensitivity of your Cintiq pen, select the E tab. To erase with a broad stroke or to RASER click with a light touch, use a soft eraser setting. For maximum control while erasing, use a firm eraser setting.

  • Page 11: Advanced Tip And Eraser Pressure Settings

    Contents Index ADVANCED TIP AND ERASER PRESSURE SETTINGS To further customize tip or eraser pressure settings, from the P or E tab click on the D RASER ETAILS button to display the F dialog box. The options within this dialog box enable you to change the ETAILS tip or eraser pressure sensitivity and click threshold settings independently.

  • Page 12: Customizing Tool Buttons

    CUSTOMIZING TOOL BUTTONS Select the P tab to change the functions assigned to the side switches and tip of your Cintiq pen. Each tool button can be set to simulate a variety of mouse functions; the pull-down menus enable you to choose the function that will be performed.

  • Page 13: Button Functions

    ORWARD ORWARD . Enables you to move a document or image in any direction within the CROLL active window using your Cintiq pen. . Reports only the button number to the application. This is for PPLICATION EFINED applications, such as CAD programs, that have built-in tablet support.
  • Page 14 Cintiq pen display and your other displays. When selected, Cintiq can be used either as a pen display (the screen cursor is positioned at the pen tip location) or as a standard Wacom tablet (the screen cursor can be moved across the entire desktop or additional displays).
  • Page 15 Clears the Deletes only the last entry OK. You must use your Cintiq input tool keystroke in the keystroke entry box. to click on the OK button.
  • Page 16 Contents Index • . Lets you move a document or image in any direction within the active application window CROLL by pressing a button set for P and then dragging with the pen tip across the tablet’s active CROLL area. When you select P , the P CROLL...
  • Page 17 Contents Index • ..Toggles between P mode and M mode. When first setting a tool button to OGGLE OUSE ..., the M dialog box is displayed where you can adjust the mouse acceleration OGGLE OUSE and speed. Sets the screen cursor tracking speed when in M mode OUSE...

  • Page 18: Customizing Tilt Sensitivity

    Cintiq pen display and your other displays. For example, Cintiq can be used as a pen display (the screen cursor is positioned at the pen tip location) or toggled for use as a standard Wacom tablet (the screen cursor can be moved across the entire desktop or additional displays).

  • Page 19: Table Of Contents

    Contents Index CUSTOMIZING THE TABLET FUNCTIONS It is as easy to customize your Cintiq pen display as it is to customize the Cintiq pen. Simply open the Wacom Tablet control panel and select the F icon in the T list. Select a tab to customize, and UNCTIONS change settings using the available options.

  • Page 20: Index

    Use the pull-down menus to choose a function that will be performed when the key is pressed. Note: Options may vary, depending on your Cintiq pen display model. Returns the tab settings to their factory default conditions. Contents Index...

  • Page 21: Customizing Tablet Touch Strips

    Choose D if you would like ISABLED to deactivate the Touch Strip. Note: Options may vary, depending on your Cintiq pen display model. Choose a Touch Strip scrolling speed. Returns the tab and any advanced Touch Strip settings to their factory default conditions.
  • Page 22 Note: Options may vary, depending scroll event. This can be used, for on your Cintiq pen display model. example, to create custom zooming or other actions within an application.
  • Page 23 The new keystroke(s) will be displayed on the button. Note: Options may vary, depending on your Cintiq pen display model. Tip: Photoshop users who frequently change brush sizes may want to assign the [ and ] keys to a Touch Strip.

  • Page 24: Advanced Touch Strip Settings

    Contents Index ADVANCED TOUCH STRIP SETTINGS The tablet Touch Strips can be further customized within the A dialog box. DVANCED OUCH TRIP ETTINGS When you click on the T OUCH TRIP tab’s A ... button, the DVANCED DVANCED OUCH TRIP ETTINGS dialog box is displayed.

  • Page 25: Customizing The Pop-Up Menu

    Contents Index CUSTOMIZING THE POP-UP MENU Use the P tab to define the available functions on the Pop-up Menu list. ENUS To display the Pop-up Menu, set one of your tool buttons or ExpressKeys to the P function. Whenever you press that button, the Pop-up Menu is displayed. Select from available items in the Pop-up Menu by clicking on them.

  • Page 26: Working With Display Toggle

    ISPLAY OGGLE the Cintiq pen display tablet to navigate the screen cursor to any display on your system. After setting one of the ExpressKeys or a pen side switch to the D function, you can then press that button to...

  • Page 27: Working With Multiple Tools

    WORKING WITH MULTIPLE TOOLS The Wacom Tablet control panel is designed to help you customize and keep track of your Cintiq tool settings. The tool you use to open the control panel is automatically selected, and the appropriate tabs for that tool are displayed.

  • Page 28: Working With Application-Specific Settings

    Contents Index WORKING WITH APPLICATION-SPECIFIC SETTINGS You may wish to customize a tool for use with a particular application. For example, you may want a firm pen tip pressure setting in one application and a soft pressure setting in another. The A list PPLICATION enables you to add an individual application to the list and then customize your tool settings for that...
  • Page 29 Contents Index CREATING AN APPLICATION-SPECIFIC SETTING To create an application-specific setting, first choose the pen display and input tool for which you want to create an application-specific setting. Then click on the A list’s [ + ] button to display the A PPLICATION dialog box.
  • Page 30 Contents Index CHANGING SETTINGS FOR A SPECIFIC TOOL AND APPLICATION To change tool settings for a specific application, select the tool and the application and then customize the tab settings. REMOVING APPLICATION-SPECIFIC SETTINGS To remove an application-specific setting: 1. In the T list, select the tool from which you want to remove the application-specific setting.

  • Page 31: Changing The Tablet Mode

    • If multiple tablets are installed, the tablet used to open the Wacom Tablet control panel is selected as the default tablet. To remove one of multiple tablets from the driver, in the Wacom Tablet control panel select the tablet to be deleted and click on the [ –...

  • Page 32: Glossary

    Journal includes a variety of pen, marker, and highlighter tools, plus an eraser that is easily activated by the eraser end of your Cintiq pen. Additionally, your handwritten content is searchable within Journal.
  • Page 33 Tilt sensitive. A quality of the Cintiq pen tip and eraser that senses the amount of tilt between the tool and tablet. This is used to create natural-looking pen, brush, and eraser strokes in applications that are tilt sensitive.
  • Page 34 Features, control panel creating Functions, button removing Installing multiple tablets working with Manual, about Button functions Monitors, using Cintiq with other Calibrating, pen display Multiple tablets, installing Control panel New tool, adding features Pen, customizing lists Pens, optional...
  • Page 35 Wacom reserves the right to revise this publication without obligation to provide notification of such changes. Wacom does its best to provide current and accurate information in this document. However, Wacom reserves the right to change any specifications and product configurations at its discretion, without prior notice and without obligation to include such changes in this document.

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