![]() ![]() The green LED lights up when you touch the tablet with the pen or when you click the mouse. The yellow LED indicates power to the tablet through the USB bus so you can see that it is operational. If you’re working within the marked area you should have no tracing problems.Īnother welcome feature for some, I’m sure, is visual feedback in the form of a couple of LEDs at the top of the active area frame. This design is probably intentional because you cannot see the marked area when working with the mouse on the tablet. When I measured the exact active area of the tablet it was actually 4.5 by 6 inches or 11,43 by 15,24 centimeters, so the area marked on the tablet is more or less a conservative guide. The active area of the tablet is considerably smaller than the mouse pad, 4 by 5 inches or 10,16 by 12,7 centimeters, but not too small to be useful for the average consumer and prosumer (the “professional consumer,” akin to a power user). ![]() Wacom Graphire graphics tablet, mouse, and pen. Make sure you have your serial mouse handy, if you have to use one during the computer startup sequence, unless you have native USB support. All this is hooked up to the USB port of your Mac. You also get the three-button Graphire mouse, the cordless, ball-free mouse that never needs cleaning and you can use right on your tablet. Included in the set for Macintosh is the Graphire PowerSuite of software, with Photoshop LE and Painter Classic! The Graphire pen comes complete with a programmable DuoSwitch, built-in eraser, and 512 levels of pressure sensitivity. The Graphire Pen is pressure sensitive, so you can edit your digital photos, sketch out an idea, or add a note to your e-mail. The Graphire is actually a pen, mouse & tablet set that serves almost any input needs in a space no larger than a mousepad. For this review I used the graphite Graphire (I had no choice in the matter of color it is a refurbished unit I got cheaper than the MSRP of US$99, which, by the way, has not changed since it was first introduced). The Graphire tablet is available in six colors, and comes with a removable pen stand and a transparent overlay for easy tracing. ![]() Wacom has been a leader in computer graphics tablets for a long time now. Sensiva was reviewed in ATPM last November, and FinderPop in April 1999. For those interested, ATPM did a review of Graphire some five years ago, in May of 1996. My testing environment for this article is a Starmax3200/G3-300 with 160 MB RAM, with Mac OS 8.6 on a Quantum Viking 2.3 GB SCA SCSI, 800圆00 driven by an ATI Nexus 128 Rage Pro and 640x480 driven by the built-in video, both at millions of colors, and an OrangeMicro FireWire/USB PCI combo card.Īlthough there are numerous reviews of the Graphire, plenty of FinderPop, a good number of Sensiva, and none of Noflet, I chose to combine these four, for reasons that I hope will become obvious as you read on. My contribution this month is a commentary of Wacom’s Graphire graphics tablet, in conjunction with the GUI enhancement software Sensiva, from the company by the same name the important Mac OS system enhancement FinderPop, by Turlough O’Connor and one of the most overlooked system enhancements, Noflet by Orion Bawdon. Remember last month when I recommended checking out the templates that FileMaker distributes with their database program? Well, I walked the talk and used the Party & Wedding Planning template to keep track of who is coming to our little celebration in Germany. The toughest bicycle race in the world: The Tour de France. ![]()
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