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Mar 16, 2017 LU88, and other frustrated Mac/Wacom users. I have an Imac and an old Wacom Intuos 3. When I updated to Sierra (due to instability in my Mac) the old wacom pretty much stopped working. I loved it, so did a quick search of blogs and then replaced it with a brand new Wacom Intuos Art (Medium) Pen and Touch CTH-690. I un-installed the old Wacom. I am using a used, Intuos 3, 9x12 tablet that is compatible with OS X 10.6.8. Purchased from eBay because it was very inexpensive and pretty much in like new condition. If you purchase a Wacom tablet from eBay, make sure to get one with the proper pens for each Intuos model version as Wacom pens are NOT intechangeable with other year tablet models. Oct 29, 2006 Maybe it the short time I've been using my Mac, I've been able to mess it up. Is there a program which checks if everything is still in the right place with OS X? Does anybody have the same problem with the Wacom drivers? I'm using a Graphire 3 and a Intuos 2 Pen Tablet. Thanks a lot! IMac4,1 Mac OS X (10.4.8). The Wacom Inkspace app is for your Intuos Pro Paper edition, Folio and Slate. Use the app to turn what you write or sketch on paper into digital ink directly on your Windows 10 device. Inkspace keeps your work made on paper alive for further editing, enhancing and sharing.
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Does Inkwell work with non-English languages? For example German (umlauts)? Can anyone try? I won't have Jaguar for another couple of days so I'm quite curious about other people's experiences ..
It doesn't seem to like umlauts. Tried a 'u' with umlaut and it read it as two 'i's. :(
What about non-English words? I mean, is recognition character-based (would work with German except maybe umlauts) or word-based (won't work unless you can somehow teach it German)?
I just tested it. It works with german 'umlaut' like ä, ü etc.
I haven't tested it yet but in the Settings tab of the Ink PrefPanes there's an options button. One of the options reads 'Recognize Western European characters' and it's not checked by default so there's hope that once it's checked it'll recognize accented chars.
no it doesn't at all. I have tried all kinds of letters, like é, è, ö. ü, ä, ß, etc. Of these I onle got the é working right away, the others did not work at all. I've tried to add the Umlauts to the word list, no results still. It's no good for writing any way, much too slow when compared to keyboard typing. To enter little commands like command-h and so forth, its nifty
sorry -- after I've checked 'recognize western european characters' it worked VERY well!
i downloaded this new driver (removed the older one) and i still get this error apon rebooting: The tablet driver did not load because of an internal driver error. maybe it's something else here.. guess i'll mess with it a little more and if not then i'll just wait and see if they post an update. oh for the record i am using 10.2 on a PMG4 400mghz AGP, the tablet is the older graphire (as opposed to graphire2 or whatever it is called).
I had the same error. I tried unplugging the Wacom's USB plug from my USB Hub and then plugging it back in which fixed the problem.
I too have this problem exactly. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, double clicking on the startup item in the Library folder, unplugging and plugging back in the tablet, yet nothing happens. I keep getting the error on restart about an Internal Driver Error. Best open source mac software. Has anyone any suggestions?
yeah, this is like a month later.. but my tablet is now recognized. i think there is a newer driver. oh, i have the 'rev a' grphire btw.. not sure if that mattered. i forgot to play with it more, but i never actually figured out how to get inkwell active. the drivers worked, and that's the big part. i can use it again for graphics.
But ink is completely useless for me! It is like one of those old Newton cartoons where the handwriting recognition is a joke! It doesn't recognize anything for me, and seems to randomize either uppercase or lowercase! So bizarre! I might have to play around with it again, but so far it doesn't do much for me! I do love the new 10.2 finder though. So much more responsive!
Couldn't agree more. And I have had both a MP130 and a 2100 to compare with and their HWR works _much_ better than Ink. Maybe not technically, but interfacewise is the Newton HWR far superior to Ink. Besides, for the Newton there where dictionaries available in many more languages. I'd like to have an Etch-a-Sketch-like tablet to write on. Has anyone seen anything like that? I know of the very expensive Wacom tablets with built in monitor but they are far too complicated for my purposes. --- http://www.google.com/search?as_q=%22Authored+by%3A+david-bo%22&num=10&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&btnG=
Interestingly, this driver worked perfectly for several hours after the install, but then suddenly stopped for no apparent reason. I have also tried the older driver that isn't alpha status without luck. When I try to open the Wacom Tablet app, I get a warning that reads: The WACOM driver was not loaded. Pleases make sure that the Tablet Driver has been installed and that the Tablet is attached to the computer. The installation goes smoothly and the connection seems good with the device. Anyone experience anything similar?
Same exact thing. worked fine, then 'poof' it was back to the crappy single button?? Help! I'm getting bloody over this banging my head against it.. I want my tablet back!!
Damn, i thought i was the only one! I'm having the exact same problems. I manually uninstalled the drivers, then did a reinstall using pacisfist. Still no go. It worked for a while after the jaguar install, and then stopped and hasn't started again. I hope a driver solution to this can be found.
Hey folks.. found a temporary work-around Go into your /Library/StartupItems/Tablet/ and double click the TabletDriver and things should work. The driver really isn't getting loaded at boot time. This is just a painful quick fix until Wacom and Apple figure it out.
On second thought don't do this. it spawns off about a million Tablet Driver processes that max ot the CPU. rats!!! I really still want my tablet back!!!
.. I think there is a problem with the Wacom driver keeping systems from sleeping... Had 2 of 'em installed by mistake, and the system would 'bounce back' when trying to manually go to sleep. With just one installed, it would manually sleep, but not automatically. With none installed auto and manual sleep work okay. (10.2, Dual 1ghz)
I have just spent a few hours trying to get Ink Pad to work on my 800Mhz titanium with no success. Among the weird things that have happened: 1. I tried downloading the newest (beta) Wacom driver at the link mentioned above and all unpacked correctly but when I double-clicked on the install tablet icon it opened 'Steve's Diary'. A simple diary utility. Where'd that come from? I got around it by going into the terminal and navigating to the Contents directory of the package and running 'open' on the package itself. The installer ran fine after that. 2. Even with the new Wacom driver, the console indicates the my InkServer is erroring out and won't run. Still, with Ink set to activate 'anywhere' I do get the little translation yellow sheet but nothing every gets inserted into TextEdit (my test program). I'll probably try a re-install of that component if I can next. Any suggestions are appreciated.
I was having the same problems as people below, and the only eventual solution was to reinstall Jaguar as an 'upgrade' to the current installation. Then, i reinstalled the drivers, and got it running happily. It works great with ink. I'm amazed this was such as hassle. Anyway, good luck to the rest of you. peace, phidauex
Go to: /Users/[youraccountname]/Library/Preferences Remove these: com.apple.ink.framework.plist com.apple.ink.inkpad.plist com.apple.ink.inkpad.sketch Now go to system prefs and fire up inkwell. everything should work.