Comments on: Inking in Windows 7 Rocks!

By: Joanne

Joanne — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:10:34 +0000

No, I've got the words run together problem too on Windows 7, but not on Vista. Seems to get worse the more you write and clear up temporarily after a restart.

By: Jim Burnett

Jim Burnett — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:38:15 +0000

Windows 7, heck Windows in general, is and will continue to be a great operating system. What other company besides Microsoft lets you easily create applications for free. Sure, you can’t sell your Visual Studio 2008 Express apps but you sure can give them away for free.

Neither MAC or Linux can provide really easy application development like Microsoft can for Windows.

Windows will continue to dominate because it simply provides more.

By: girl

girl — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:21:02 +0000

Hello all!

I have a problem with “start inking” in office 2007. The inking menu does not display when clicking on it… it simply does nothing.
Instead, when approaching the pen to the tablet, the Input Panel pops-up.

I have search the web, and it seems that the problem comes when combining Windows 7 with Office 2007. I wonder if any of you has experienced this problem. Is there a solution?

I miss inking….

Thank you!

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:00:40 +0000

In the TIP, that is. James’ post is obviously not about that here.

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:59:53 +0000

Hmmm. It didn’t occur to me that having the handwriting disappear as you write would be a problem, but I could see how that could be. There must be ways to deal with the interpretation if you’re writing more than a few words. I see I’ll have to try this out before upgrading.

I’m not bothered by having it change the interpretation because more often it corrects itself when it sees the next word, at least in my experience, than misinterprets it. I get much more accuracy in Vista than XP Tablet. I’d read W7 is more accurate still.

By: AllanCJ

AllanCJ — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:01:27 +0000

John
In both XP and Vista I’ve had the problem of the TIP apparently correctly identifying my handwriting, and then modifying it to something incorrect as I continue to write. I was hoping that Windows 7 would put an end to that.

By: John in Norway

John in Norway — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:19:29 +0000

Am I the only person who prefers inking in XP as opposed to Win 7? I’m finding the TIP to be absolutely awful. Here’s an example: I write a word and it comes out fine. I then write another word and at first it also looks fine but then Windows decides to join the words together and makes a completely different word! It happens so often that I can’t write naturally but have to keep looking back all the time and correcting, something else which seems to be a lot more unintuative than it was previously. I started to write this with the TIP but had to give up and resort to the keyboard.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:04:25 +0000

Downloaded the onenote trial and this program is fricking awesome! Seriousely ive never known how much ive needed exactly this thing for school and content for the various sites i write for. I have a rather elaborate system set up now:
I have onenote on my netbook which is with me everywhere. When I save something to the notebook on there, microsoft synctoy will mirror it to both the SD card in the computer and my dropbox folder. The dropbox folder on my home computer will then get the notebook, and that folder is set to be monitored and auto-backed up to Carbonite (online backup service). It’s also part of what the install of synctoy on that computer will mirror to a 16GB flash drive that is always plugged in.

Over the top when it comes to backups? Yeah but im paranoid and theres no way in hell imm ever becoming one of those people who just lost a very important file.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:23:42 +0000

The screen looks fine, although not as vivid as non-Tablets. The digitizer layers always impace the brightness. Lenovo has an outdoor screen available, but without touch.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:22:46 +0000

Hardware, the x200 has a WACOM digitizer that only handles 2 fingers, according to Lenovo.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:22:19 +0000

I intend to do a video soon.

By: GadgetMerc

GadgetMerc — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:45:18 +0000

Its good to see you happily inking again James.

By: HG

HG — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:19:27 +0000

James if you get a chance can you do a video of the X200 with Win 7 inking?

By: Jack wilson

Jack wilson — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:05:29 +0000

I wonder if the two finger limit is a driver or a hardware issue (and I wonder what other kind of issues Wacom is having with this).

As I recall mulitouch on the Macbooks was initially two finger and then they worked the drivers to bring it to four. (or something like that)

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:48:02 +0000

How bright is the screen? How sharp? (I think I’m going to email this question to Warren Crocker, too.)

Every Tablet I’ve owned with an active digitizer has been brighter and clearer than the last, but never as bright as the Samsung Q1 with a resistive, nor as bright as laptops without the mesh of digitizing whatever that’s between the backlighting and my weary old eyeballs.

Is the screen touch responsive with the stylus in the same hand? If so, how does it avoid vectoring?

This looks like the most exciting Tablet PC I’ve seen in a while, and likely to plunk down yet-to-be-earned dough on one.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:37:07 +0000

That is OneNote which I installed for inking.