Wacom Grapphire 4 sucks? ;-;

[pasithea]

Last night, I realized that swapping my current wacom tablet from machine to machine was going to be a hassle so I went and looked at a new one and saw the 8x6 BlueTooth Grapphire tablet and I was like, 'Ooooh! The new machine has bluetooth!' so I got it and installed it and... I'm really disappointed. :(

The Wacom configuration apparently no longer supports turning the tablet sideways OR defining different key actions for different applications. What happened?

I can live without the 90 degree rotation but DAMNIT! Photoshop and Illustrator use different keystrokes for multi-level undo and I'm REALLY used to that. Why did they take out this feature!?!? It was there on all 4 of the previous Wacom tablets I've owned. My Intuos 1 had it, so did my Intuos 2 and my Grapphires 2 and 3. I'm hoping this is just temporary and they put it back in. I'm wondering if this is a limitation of the BlueTooth model or with using it on the MacIntel machine?

Does anyone else have a MacIntel with a different wacom tablet or a BlueTooth tablet on a different machine? Or is this just something they've taken out for the grapphire 4 tablets?

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I heard something about the latest Wacom drivers being STOOPID. Did you get them off the net or on the CD? According to this they seem to have fucked up and put an old, old version up; there's a link to an actual recent driver there.

I'm still using my crappy little Graphire2, so I dunno how those soft-key things work.

Oh, also, I always go into Photoshop's keyboard shortcuts screen and reassign apple-Z/shift-apple-Z to 'step forwards/backwards' so that multiple undo works like I expect it to, instead of the default 1992-era behavior...

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

I downloaded from the site. The CD wouldn't even work. The machine just barfed it out. But anyhow, per the labeling on the disk and the info on their website, the drivers on the disk wouldn't work witht he IntelMac anyhow.

I downloaded the latest version which it says explicitly, is compatible with the IntelMac.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. Never mind the other stuff I blathered on about, then. Try emailing their tech support and asking; good luck!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

try some of the other driver versions they have - and were the Intel Macs available by Valentine's day? I dunno if they got advance dev machines or not. Are the driver binaries you have Universal?

[jakerabbit.livejournal.com]

I thought only the Intuos supported tilt? Or are you talking about a different function?

[centauress.livejournal.com]

Not pen tilt - portrait vs landscape of the 6x8 tablet space, so you can hold it at a different rotation on the desk.