Typophile - Wacom pen sensitivity - Comments

You just hover of the things

James Puckett — Tue, 6 May 2008 15:02:54 -0700

You just hover of the things to select and press your mapped key.

That’s brilliant. I might actually start using my Wacom for vector work now. Thank you for posting!

I have had the same issue

rsentgerath — Tue, 6 May 2008 13:46:17 -0700

I have had the same issue you describe with the sliding click. One way I solved it was to map one of the quick keys to a mouse click. This avoids pressing down with the pen and sliding a little while you depress. You just hover of the things to select and press your mapped key.

What works for me is setting one of the switch keys on the pen to mouse click, the other to double. That helped me with the sliding click.

Alternatively, I have not tried it, you might want to change the pen tip to the felt one for a little more friction. Not sure if that helps.

So if I understand you

Sebastian Nagel — Tue, 6 May 2008 00:49:29 -0700

So if I understand you right, you want to adjust the “drag”-sensitivity, so it takes a bit of dragging before a glyph really is moved.

I can’t find an option to this in the wacom driver panel, and I guess it is a system/application setting, as it is about interpreting the input, not measuring it.
In Windows, you can adjust how far the mouse have to drag an icon before it is interpretted as dragging, but this setting has no influence on applications like fontlab, it’s merely for file management.

If it helps you: This sometimes happens to me as well, even though I prefer the mouse in fontlab (not making script fonts).

Wacom pen sensitivity

Stephen Rapp — Sat, 3 May 2008 08:36:26 -0700

I use an Wacom Intuos 3 tablet with pen and mouse. Sometimes I find that the pen is too sensitive for certain tasks. A good example is in the Metrics Window. Sometimes if I click on a glyph instead of just selecting it, it will shift the glyph about. I don’t think this kind of sensitivity can be adjusted in preferences for the tablet. Is there a way to lock the glyph itself (not the sidebearing lines) so this doesn’t happen?
There are times when its a problem in the glyph window as well, but the metrics window one seems most annoying.Sometimes I don’t realize I’v accidently nudged a glyph till I see that it doesn’t connect properly in my script font. I’m hoping some tablet users will share their remedies.

Stephen Rapp