John Carter wrote:
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, dwain wrote:
John Carter wrote:
I'm planning on doing a rather Inkscape / Gimp intensive open source project in the next month or three and I'm contemplating buying a Graphics Tablet.
Any recommendations on what to buy / not buy for use with Inkscape?
For example there are cheapie Genius tablets and there are really expensive Wacom Intuous tablets. Do you really care about features like pen slant? Can Inkscape use it?
the wacom graphire 3 that i got for $45usd does not support the pressure sensitivity that i need for drawing.
Curious. Places like... http://reviews.cnet.com/Wacom_Graphire3/4507-3147_7-30566997.html say the Graphire3 has 512 levels of pressure sensitivity.
Are you saying...
- The Graphire3 you have doesn't have pressure sensitivity?
- 512 levels isn't enough?
- That feature of Graphire3 isn't supported by the OS / Inkscape you are using?
then i'm not seeing the pressure sensitivity in either inkscape or gimp, unless i'm missing something, which i could be. the settings in the driver are extremely limited. i have a serial intuos gd (1) and i saw pressure sensitivity in corel painter and draw and adobe illustrator, but not in inkscape or gimp.
but like i said, i could be missing a setting somewhere. i have noticed though that in inkscape i cannot set anything in the input device setting in preferences. i'm using windows xp pro and inkscape will allow the tablet to operate, but i can't set anything. when i change to the stylus, the settings box goes blank and settings for the puck cannot be changed. i had the same problem with opensuse 10.2. i could not get the tablet driver, the os and the program to shake hands for some reason.
how exactly will you be using the tablet and what os are you using?
I'm planning on using Inkscape & Gimp on Ubuntu Linux "Feisty Fawn".
The project I'm planning is a comic book / graphics novel on General System Architecture & Design in the heritage of "The Fortran Coloring Book" and "Why The Lucky Stiff's Poignant Guide to Ruby"
you might want to look into a different brand of tablet or buy a wacom intuos3.