Patrick Genovese wrote:
1. Normal operations with the pen (such as using winddows apps) will require big sweeping arm movements. This is because the tablet maps to the screen area. This means that the top left corner of the tablet maps to the top left corner of your screen.
Actually, at least on the Intuos2, you can choose the mapping mode for the surface of the tablet, and it can be different for the pen and the mouse. One mode is "absolute" where the corners of the pad area are the corners of the screen, as Patrick describes, but you can also put it in "relative" mode where it works more like a ball mouse. That is, you can pick the pen or mouse up off the tablet and move it without moving the cursor.
