Appendix
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PEN AND DIGITAL INK CAPABILITIES IN WINDOWS VISTA
Microsoft Windows Vista provides extensive support for pen and touch input. When using DTF-521 with
a computer running Windows Vista, your experience is enhanced by powerful note taking, handwriting
recognition, fast navigation, and other digital inking options designed to give you quick, intuitive results
with the Wacom pen.
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Note taking.
Use your Wacom pen to jot notes and capture quick sketches in Windows Journal.
Journal simulates a physical notebook, but with the advantages of digital note taking – you can
choose from a variety of pen, marker, and highlighter tools. Journal also includes a powerful search
engine that can even locate your handwritten content.
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Handwriting recognition.
Because Windows Vista includes powerful handwriting recognition
capabilities, you can use your Wacom pen to quickly enter handwritten information anywhere the
computer accepts typed input. You can convert your handwritten content to typed text at any time.
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Gestures.
Use your Wacom pen to make simple gestural movements on the pen display to trigger
customizable actions for navigation, editing, and other functions. To customize your gestures, select
the F
LICKS
tab in the P
EN
AND
I
NPUT
D
EVICES
control panel.
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Digital Ink in Microsoft Office 2007.
Use your Wacom pen to full advantage with the enhanced
digital mark-up and inking tools available in Microsoft Office 2007 applications running on
Windows Vista. Found on the R
EVIEW
tab within applicable applications, these tools provide a
consistent set of inking options. For quick access, you can add specific inking tools to the
Quick Access Toolbar located at the top of each application.
Note that the following workarounds in the pen tablet driver improve drawing performance in Vista:
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The Vista Pen Flicks and ‘press-and-hold-to-right-click’ features are disabled in graphics
applications using the Wintab API.
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There is no pressure sensitivity in Journal and other Vista Ink features when both the Flicks and
‘press-and-hold-to-right-click’ features are disabled in the Vista P
EN
AND
I
NPUT
D
EVICES
control
panel.
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