Wacom PenTablet & Handwriting

[Dirk F. Janssen]

Is it true that a Wacom Penpad (as Voilo) cannot be used for Handwriting in
OneNote? What products can actually be used for this?

Thank you!

 

[Thomas Wenzl [MVP]]

Is it true that a Wacom Penpad (as Voilo) cannot be used for
Handwriting in OneNote? What products can actually be used for this?

on a standard Windows XP Home Edition/Professional?
None product. WinXP HE/Pro lacks of TabletPC
support.

Regards

 

[Dirk F. Janssen]

on a standard Windows XP Home Edition/Professional?

None product. WinXP HE/Pro lacks of TabletPC
support.

Why is that so? Maybe a marketing decision to push TabletPCs? I think it would
not be that difficult to support these products as handwriting-input-devices on
winxp he/pro, would it?

So there is absolutely no way to import handwriting in Onenote / Winxp Pro?

Thank you! Dirk

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

Why is that so? Maybe a marketing decision to push TabletPCs? I think
it would not be that difficult to support these products as
handwriting-input-devices on winxp he/pro, would it?

There are some technical issues with the capture rates on Wacom tablets
- they're not as high as Tablet PCs so the results are not as good.

 

[Chris_Pratley \(MS\)]

Ink recognition is supplied by the TabletPC OS, and is not available on
other versions of Windows for the kind of ink that OneNote collects. See
other posts in this newsgroup for the longer version of this explanation.

Chris Pratley (MS)
OneNote design team

 

[Dirk F. Janssen]

Ink recognition is supplied by the TabletPC OS, and is not available on

other versions of Windows for the kind of ink that OneNote collects. See
other posts in this newsgroup for the longer version of this explanation.

Alright, thanks Chris!

 

[Thomas Wenzl [MVP]]

Hello Dirk,

Why is that so? Maybe a marketing decision to push TabletPCs? I think
it would not be that difficult to support these products as
handwriting-input-devices on winxp he/pro, would it?

there are technical issues in the current version of WinXP.
The Ink support comes with the TabletPC OS and that's
why it isn't supported on any other edition of Windows XP.

There are rumors that this design may change with the
Longhorn version of the TabletPC OS, but as you
probably guess, Longhorn is still a long way to go.

So there is absolutely no way to import handwriting
in Onenote / Winxp Pro?

To avoid confusion, you can open and read OneNote
files with ink on a Windows XP desktop OS, but
you can write in ink.

Regards

 

[Thomas Wenzl [MVP]]

Thomas Wenzl [MVP] wrote:
[...]

you can write in ink.

oops, should mean "can't", of course.

Regards