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From: Mark Pearson on 16 Nov 2007 09:53
Hi,

Can anyone please recommend one that I'd be able to use with the likes of
The Gimp & Sodipodi?

I have an old Genius serial 6x6" tablet which I thought I'd be able to get
working in the interim but without success so far.

Thanks.

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Best rgds,
Mark


From: Bruce Stephens on 16 Nov 2007 13:38
Mark Pearson <mark(a)somefalseemailaddress.net> writes:

> Can anyone please recommend one that I'd be able to use with the likes of
> The Gimp & Sodipodi?

There's pretty good support for various Wacom tablets in the kernel,
X, and therefore any applications that use the functionality. (I
don't know about Sodipodi, but The Gimp has support.)

Indeed, I use a Graphire mouse and tablet as my mouse at home. I
don't know whether there's support for the latest low-cost Wacom
tablet (Bamboo).

Wow, what a ghastly web site: mostly Flash, complete with a Flash
splash screen. And pretty horrible to use. But it does suggest that
Graphire4's are still available, should you want a reasonably cheap
tablet with a mouse (they don't come with a mouse, by the looks of it,
but mice are available).

I've got a serial A4 Intuos somewhere that I could be persuaded to
part with for a modest fee, if that would be of interest? It only has
the basic pen, and it's old (so no box, software, or anything), but I
think it still works (I'd check, obviously). (IIRC, the Intuos has
tilt sensitivity as well as pressure, which I the Graphire series
don't have.)

[...]

From: Andy Burns on 17 Nov 2007 18:16
On 16/11/2007 14:53, Mark Pearson wrote:

> Sodipodi

Is that still alive? I switched to Inkscape years ago ...

From: Alex Butcher on 23 Nov 2007 14:05
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:38:56 +0000, Bruce Stephens wrote:

> Mark Pearson <mark(a)somefalseemailaddress.net> writes:
>
>> Can anyone please recommend one that I'd be able to use with the likes
>> of The Gimp & Sodipodi?
>
> There's pretty good support for various Wacom tablets in the kernel, X,
> and therefore any applications that use the functionality. (I don't know
> about Sodipodi, but The Gimp has support.)
>
> Indeed, I use a Graphire mouse and tablet as my mouse at home. I don't
> know whether there's support for the latest low-cost Wacom tablet
> (Bamboo).

Wacom's el-cheapo Volito model works for me. Not sure if they're still
available, or whether the Bamboo is a rebadged derivative.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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