Dear Santa

[John Oram]

I suspect the bigger issue is crappy drivers from Wacom and the 
tablet manufacturers, leading to limited uptake on Inkwell, leading 
to limited application support...

Apple clearly needs to make a tablet.  With a built in screen!  Hmmm, 
that sounds familiar... :(

-j

At 11:13 PM +0100 1/7/05, Mark Pratt wrote:
>Hmm,
>
>I loved my Newton too :-)
>
>This is an interesting discussion --  hadn't thought about 
>OmniGraffle missing tablet support but it does make sense.
>My previous solution has been to draw it / scan it and then import 
>into omnigraffle. But being able to draw directly
>in OmniGraffle Pro would be awesome.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Mark
>
>On Jan 7, 2005, at 10:19 PM, John Oram wrote:
>
>>>Wouldn't it be great to have at least one layer of Ink in OG where actually
>>>hand-drawn shapes (via tablet) could be kept and composited with vector
>>>shapes? Wouldn't it be better if OG could detect basic shape patterns and
>>>auto-map them to circles, squares, straight lines, etc?
>>
>>Now you are making me miss my Newton. :(  The auto-draw feature in 
>>the notepad was pretty sweet.  In fact, that's one big reason why I 
>>latched on to OmniGraffle -- it was the closest thing out there to 
>>the Newton in many ways.
>>
>>My experiments with tablets and OG have been disastrous -- wild pen 
>>motions ensure, and I just seem to end up selecting and deleting 
>>everything.
>>
>>Getting solid tablet support would certainly move us closer to that 
>>back-of-the-napkin interface we all secretly desire.
>>
>>-j
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