4:50 p.m.
Hi!
I am testing a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet in my Mac (PPC) and
appearently I can't use its pressure sensitivity in GIMP. Has anyone
managed to use a graphics tablet in GIMP, under Mac OS X? Is X11 for
Mac compatible with this feature? I also tryied in Inkscape, but it
only behaves like a mouse, pointing and clicking, with no pressure
signs... Anyone can help, please?
Thanks,
Victor Domingos
http://lojamac.com/blog
6:19 p.m.
Hi, Victor
Mac X11 doesn't support sensitivity! :(
On 6/30/07, Victor Domingos <editor.arcosonline@...155...> wrote:
Hi!
I am testing a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet in my Mac (PPC) and
appearently I can't use its pressure sensitivity in GIMP. Has anyone
managed to use a graphics tablet in GIMP, under Mac OS X? Is X11 for
Mac compatible with this feature? I also tryied in Inkscape, but it
only behaves like a mouse, pointing and clicking, with no pressure
signs... Anyone can help, please?
Thanks,
Victor Domingos
http://lojamac.com/blog
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Alberto Simões
7:09 p.m.
On 2007-June-30 , at 18:27 , Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
Alberto Simões escribió:
> Mac X11 doesn't support sensitivity! :(
>
I didn't know that Mac's X11 did not support pressure in Xinput.
Indeed the X11 version shipped with OS X does _not_ support Xinput
and hence graphic tablet can't have pressure or tilt sensitivity.
There are only two ways out of this:
- get a recent Xorg to compile on OS X. There is an Xorg port in
MacPorts but it is marked a broken. I guess many projects will
benefit from having a newer and possibly faster X server
- get Inkscape to compile with GTK natively on OS X and improve the
GTK port to have support for tablets. The first part has already been
done by some people and would benefit from more interest. See http://
wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/
CompilingMacOsX#Compiling_Inkscape_as_a_native_application_.
28no_X11.29 . The second part is really GTK related and I don't know
how GTK could get tablet events information it normally gets from X11
when X11 isn't there. Has anyone experience on windows with this? Are
tablets supported on windows?
Both solutions would be great and would make many Inkscape (and
Gimp!) users happy. Any step in those directions would help a lot.
Eventually, there may be a third way: get apple to upgrade X11
themselves. Send feedback to Apple in whichever way you can. Your
email alone won't change much but if everyone does... who knows? Is
there someone here testing a beta version of Leopard? What about X11
there?
Cheers,
JiHO
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7:33 p.m.
Any hint where to send emails/complains to Apple?
Cheers
Alberto
On 6/30/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
On 2007-June-30 , at 18:27 , Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Alberto Simões escribió:
>> Mac X11 doesn't support sensitivity! :(
>>
> I didn't know that Mac's X11 did not support pressure in Xinput.
Indeed the X11 version shipped with OS X does _not_ support Xinput
and hence graphic tablet can't have pressure or tilt sensitivity.
There are only two ways out of this:
- get a recent Xorg to compile on OS X. There is an Xorg port in
MacPorts but it is marked a broken. I guess many projects will
benefit from having a newer and possibly faster X server
- get Inkscape to compile with GTK natively on OS X and improve the
GTK port to have support for tablets. The first part has already been
done by some people and would benefit from more interest. See http://
wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/
CompilingMacOsX#Compiling_Inkscape_as_a_native_application_.
28no_X11.29 . The second part is really GTK related and I don't know
how GTK could get tablet events information it normally gets from X11
when X11 isn't there. Has anyone experience on windows with this? Are
tablets supported on windows?
Both solutions would be great and would make many Inkscape (and
Gimp!) users happy. Any step in those directions would help a lot.
Eventually, there may be a third way: get apple to upgrade X11
themselves. Send feedback to Apple in whichever way you can. Your
email alone won't change much but if everyone does... who knows? Is
there someone here testing a beta version of Leopard? What about X11
there?
Cheers,
JiHO
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2:24 a.m.
On 2007-June-30 , at 19:33 , Alberto Simões wrote:
Any hint where to send emails/complains to Apple?
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
Select Mac OS X as a product I would guess (since X11 is no there).
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