Bill, Thanks for sharing your experiences. I've seen Modbook -- looks very compelling. I have tried a TabletPC (Lenovo X41) in the past but it was still too heavy to hold after a while. When I've picked up the MacBook Air it is so incredibly ideally light weight, I wish there was a way to turn the Air into tablet (imagine a MacBook Slate Air -- with Skim and a Slate Air the world would not stand still!).
One of Skim's great features is the magnify glass bubble. I can easily imagine using a pen with the magnify bubble directly on the screen via ModBook. It sounds as if the freehand option with Inkwell / pen input will have limited use. Nonetheless, your ModBook enthusiasm is tempting! Do you put the Modbook on a stand on your desk? Due to the research I do and keeping my eyes from needing to squint too much, I mainly use a MacPro tower with dual monitor displays but for annotating PDFs (to take the replacement of doing so on printed paper -- "stop printing start skimming"), so I'd like to maximize the Mac Pro tower if possible. You have definitely given some food for thought here, regarding Modbook, thank you! Hydro On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Bill Mohler <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a Modbook, which has a tablet screen. Works great for skim > with Ink pasting captured text directly into note panes. > > In freehand, each stroke is a different object, so it's not too > fluid. Writing in cursive works Ok for having whole words as objects. > But otherwise, you need to shift/click to group all the letters (or > parts of letters) > > Still, I LOVE note-taking and highlighting with the tablet screen. > Highly recommend it! > > Bill > > >Greetings all -- > > > >Has anyone tried using Skim (with its new freehand note tool) with a > >graphics tablet connected to their Mac, which makes use of Apple's > >Inkwell system? Inkwell has the option of converting handwriting to > >text characters -- which some people might want to try -- but even > >if one preserves original hand written notes, it might be nice (such > >as for writing small equations requiring greek symbols, or notes > >with small diagrams, in the margins of the PDF document). > > > >I kind of winged it with an Apple Mighty Mouse but a mouse is > >definitely not a pen :-) > > > >Another reason why a graphics tablet bight be nice is for reducing > >hand strain from overuse of a mouse -- I can imagine using the pen > >to very swiftly use Skim's awesome magnify glass bubble to sweep > >over sections of the PDF document. > > > >Then again, maybe Apple will surprise us with something new along > >the lines of multi-touch in January (rumors swirling of a new Mighty > >Mouse with multi touch or something like that). > > > >Anyway, if anyone has any experience with graphics tablets and > >Inkwell and Skim, it would be nice to share them. If not, then I > >might have to pioneer some experimentation. > > > >Cheers, > > > >-hydro > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Skim-app-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >
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