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- From: wave@waits.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson)
- Subject: pressure sensitivity (or lack thereof) (was Kodak Photo CD)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.013147.22541@news.media.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov5.221933.25827@wri.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:31:47 GMT
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- Jeff Adams writes
- > In article <1992Nov5.173220.26980@news.media.mit.edu>
- wave@waits.media.mit.edu
- > (Michael B. Johnson) writes:
- >
- > >... between no real Wacom support and no easy way to import images
- > > from PhotoCD, a NeXT running Appsoft Image is not looking as nice an
- > > alternative to a souped up Quadra running Fractal Paint and PhotoShop. I'm
- > > bummin', because the combination of a color NeXT with a Wacom tablet...had
- me
- > > salivating, but real reality (no pressure support in Image and
- > > no Photo CD support) is beginning to dawn...
- > >
- >
- > Could you explain what you mean by no real Wacom tablet support?? Wacom
- > tablets worked with my NeXTstation color in NeXTSTEP 2.1 and now in NeXTSTEP
- > 3.0 pressure sensitivity is supported AND there is a demo app to show you how
- > to make use of this great feature. Now it is simply up to third party apps
- to
- > support this.
-
- Sure, I'd be happy to explain. Note exactly what I said: "no pressure support
- in Image". Yes, pressure sensitivity is well supported in NeXTStep 3.0 (thanks
- Peter!). It's now up to applications to support it. Stone Design is
- supporting it in Create 3.0 (when it ships) and Altsys is already supporting it
- in Virtuoso 1.0 (which has shipped). Appsoft Image, arguably the program most
- obviously screaming for pressure sensitive support, will not have pressure
- sensitive support in 1.0 (scheduled to ship next Friday) and the word from
- Appsoft seems to be that pressure sensitive support will not be added to the
- app until 2.0. Boo!!
-
-
- Hope that clears things up.
-
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