Besides Photoshop, does anyone know of an app that can be used for drawing on a Wacom USB tablet?
Any application that can poduce graphics will work with a drawing tablet:
Keynote, Pages, Pixelmator, Illustrator, Autodesk Graphic, Open office, the list is endless.
I doubt it.
How do you draw on Keynote? It will just advanced slides.
How do you draw on Pages? It will just highlight text.
Pages has a pen tool (for drawing lines). And yes, you can use the pen of the Bamboo tablet for that. Or for any application that produces graphics – just like Gary says.
Nope, again, on all accounts.
Pages pen tool is not meant for free hand drawing. It is bezier.
Bezier yes, but you still can use the pen of your tablet to set the anchor points. There's a lot of ways you can use a tablet: I use mine as a mouse replacement. 🙂
But in stead of bickering about details: why don't you just get the demo version of Pixelmator, and give it a try?
How is that any different from using Photoshop?
You asked for an app that can be used for drawing on a Wacom tablet. Pixelmator can do that. The principle is the same as in Photoshop.
The problem is that both apps are limited to drawing anything within only those apps. When doing a presentation, you want to highlight or circle text. Or draw on the actual presentation. Neither app has any type of overlay ability (For Macs, I don't know one that does).
I guess this is a limitation of Macs that PCs don't suffer from. With PCs, you can use a tablet/pen and draw on other stuff without any problems. Powerpoint does this very well. Keynote doesn't do it at all (there's no tablet/pen integration for this type of drawing in Keynote. No one doing presentations is going to use bezier curves).
Please start a new topic in which you make this clear in the first post. Your question was way to general to expect a useful answer. Include the words on-screen annotation.
Will do. I tried to market you last response as the answer since it does answer which apps you can draw in using a Mac. But the forums aren't marketing it. Any who, thanks.
I doubt it.
look at the website for Keynotes webpage: Keynote for Mac
Also look at the websites of third party applications for a list of features.
How do you draw on Keynote? It will just advanced slides
Keynote is not a player. It is a presentation authoring application with a full set of drawing tools to create shapes, lines, text and graphs.
Pages uses the same drawing tools as Keynote.
Neither app has any type of overlay ability (For Macs, I don't know one that does).
Your now asking a different set of questions, however the application for this job is Skitch. It is specifically used in live demonstrations, it has the following tools; shapes, arrows, freehand marker, highlight, text . Look at the website here: Skitch
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App for drawing on Bamboo tablet?
