The Bamboo will only perform two finger and 1 finger operations, but
it has four buttons which can be scripted. Most of the finger
operations mimic those on the Mac touchpad - 1 finger moves the
cursor, 2 fingers scroll up or down, taps for click to select, or
open folders or launch files.
It's taking me a while to get the hang of it this evening, but right
now it seems like a winner.
The pens have buttons which can be scripted to do operations like
select, and click. The pen on my old Intuos functions like a mouse
only without the carpal tunnel.
One thing I can't figure out how to do with the Bamboo is
circumscribe the size of the active part of the tablet. I never have
figured out why one would want a large tablet, since one would have
to hold ones hand off it and be moving the arm all the time to
navigate around it. So even on my 4x6 intuos I had the space
circumscribed to even smaller. Selecting large areas of an image
involved drawing the pen nib very short distances that way, and
reaching for the File menu when the cursor had been down in the lower
left corner did not involve lifting the hand off the desk.
Thus far the only thing I haven't figured out with the Bamboo is how
to turn off the contextual menus it keeps splatting in my face.
I think I can confidently say that if someone wants my old Intuous to
play around with, I'm done with it, and for a reasonable fee and
shipping it's available.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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New England landscapes, wooden boats and races
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