[Jürgen Hubert]

Originally Posted by Mackx

First thing: Don't expect it to behave like a PC. The device was developed for reading books/journals/papers and annotating them, but not for sketching or making drawings.
However sketching/drawing IS possible, don't expect that you can make the same 'art-work' then on your PC, but for making some first sketches to be further detailed (or redrawn) on a PC is possible.

That's actually the plan. So far, I've mostly drawn by using online references, but various other people have told me that I need to draw from real life to get a better grip on perspective. My idea was to use the 1000S to draw from real life examples away from a regular computer without abandoning digital art for that step.

Once I have created a sketch on the 1000S, I can always improve on it on the computer with a regular tablet. The main thing is that I get the perspective right, for which the 1000S should hopefully be sufficient.

Currently there are two possibilities:
- Using the build in functionality to annotate pdf files (just use an empty 'template')
- Using Xournal.
Both have their advantages and dis-advantages, you will have to experiment yourself.

Thanks, I will test them.

Both will produce pdf-files, which might not be the best basis to do further processing.

As long as the lines drawn still look correct when exported to a computer, it should be enough - if in doubt, I can always convert them via a GIMP screen shot.

I've read somewhere that the lines drawn with the stylus are saved as vectors instead of bitmaps, which might be useful as well. Does anyone know how to convert PDF files to Inkscape SVG files?

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All software for the DR has been released as public domain and it is 'easy' to add extra programs. So if you have programming skills you can also create you own sketching program or improve an existing one.

While I have done some programming in the past, I'm sadly not much of a programmer...

(Don't expect miracles on this part, porting programs is a hard-job and the capabilities of the DR processor are limited, but small things can certainly be improved. If you make a good case in this forum someone even might be willing to do the changes for you.)

I've heard that while the hardware supports pen pressure (i.e. it can measure how hard you press the stylus against the surface), the software so far doesn't - so some kind of software that does make use of such a function would be very interesting. Maybe some folks who work on developing GIMP could be convinced to make a custom version of it for the 1000S...

My own goal is to make using the 1000S more popular among the art crowd if this device works out for me. After all, the more people use it for artistic purposes, the more people will try to create art-related applications for it and future generations of such devices...

I hope this gives you a better understanding of the tablet-function (or scribble-function as it is mostly called in this forum).

It helps a lot, thanks.