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Originally Posted by jackm8
Great tip. You may have just earned €87.13 for Amazon. Or more likely some offbrand pen with a button that works. I'm actually judging worth of it right now. I went with standard one, and never regretted it until now. I don't annotate much in fixed page books, but when I do, constantly opening and closing toolbar is a true annoyance, since I'm used to tapping the screen instead of swiping it to turn pages.
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Updates have been sorta 2 steps forward and one back. In the latest update they forgot they have many Scribe users with standard pens, making it less flexible to use the new features for them. Even if you have a so called premium pen, it forces you to work around things by reserving the button for those workarounds (as my 'tip' details).
So with 5.17.3, if Writing toolbar is hidden, and you open expanded margin, the pen tip is set to Select and you cannot write! It should bring up a writing toolbar and default to whatever pen tip was last active. And then when you hide writing toolbar, the toolbar goes away again. No button required.
And eve for the earlier active canvas feature, you should be able to create one without a button somehow and with WT hidden. For example select some text with it, the menu offers to create one as one of the options, opens a space for it, and brings up a writing toolbar so you have full access to all the pen tools, and you can start writing in there. When you're done and exit edit mode, this toolbar goes away.
And if WT is hidden, you should be able to tap in an existing active canvas, again a writing toolbar should show up and let you start editing the active canvas. Again no button required to work around it.