Im considering using digital pad instead of writing in notebooks.
does pages compatible with digital pads? I want to buy wacom bamboo.
Thanks for all the helpers 🙂
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
Apple includes the Ink Handwriting Recognition capability in OS X El Capitan, as it has done for prior OS X releases for years. This capability is only available when a graphic tablet is connected, and the tablet has supporting software compatible with the current release of OS X. When this is the case, the Ink preference pane will be available in System Preferences.
Ink will allow you to write or print freehand into either Pages itself (have not tested this with Pages v5.6, or v5.5.3), or its own software tablet. The linked article is from summer 2014, and likely deals with Pages v5.2.2 and Mavericks.
Let me make my question more clear.
I want to use pages as i one would use his iPad for writing.
The difference will be that i will use pad with macbook and the other will use pen with iPad.
Is it possible? even without hand writing recognition only with tools that will allow that.
thanks again
I do not have a Wacom tablet here to test the current OS X ink interface, and assess its handwriting recognition performance and error rate. Do not assume that any handwriting recognition solution on an iPad, is illustrative of OS X ink usage, where many other resource hungry processes are competing for CPU time. Even a time machine backup, or Spotlight index rebuild could impact ink performance.
Know anyone that has a Wacom Bamboo that you can borrow and test with Ink?
no.sadly i don't know anyone with wacom pad. although would free writing (without handwriting recognition) will work?
I cannot answer detailed questions about OS X Ink because I have no graphics tablet to connect — and without that connected tablet — no aspect of Ink is available to view configuration panels, or test it.
Unrelated to handwriting recognition, but beneficial for transforming an iPad into a graphic tablet for artwork on your Mac, take a look at Astropad.
can i use digital pad with pages?
