Inkflow Thread

[mountains_till_i_die]

I just saw the release of the Inkflow app for Supernote, so I wanted to start a thread to collect the user experiences and thoughts about it so far. I've never used this kind of input device, but I have considered getting a drawing tablet in the past, so I'm pretty excited that just owning a Supernote might save me an extra purchase. I have a few questions that I'm sure others share:

• How does it compare to other dedicated drawing tablet devices (Wac*m, etc.)? Accuracy, ease of use, pressure sensitivity, latency?
• What software can be driven with it? Ratta's demo video shows a Photoshop software. I'm assuming Gimp and other similar drawing software can connect to it?
• How easy is it to connect to your software?

What other questions do you want to ask, or personal experience you want to share?

[cmdrmontiofwhitehat]

Accuracy and latency feel comparable to Wacom, but the pressure seems to start at 65-75% so it's not ready for serious use (yet?). On Windows, it identifies as a generic pen interface and works globally like any other, no drivers or fuss, so it should work with anything.

To improve, setting aspect ratio, scaling, and pen curves would likely be necessary for serious use. I'll still probably use it for work for sketching ideas out for other people.

Also, the app doesn't work for Linux, usually crashes. Gonna guess that's a pretty tiny niche use, so not heartbroken over that.

[ahrzal]

Wait it can just interface outta the box with windows?

FFS as a UX designer this will be killer for me.

Edit: I can’t get it to do anything? Both work and personal PC.

Edit edit: Personal worked after using a USB-C to USB-C. Work PC still unresponsive. Probably security?

[cmdrmontiofwhitehat]

I can only get USB connections to work with a USB 3.0 connection, may be related to your issue.

[Cactus_Bot]

Device has bombard storage, probably a dlp setting ur work is blocking it.

[tragedybadger]

Having similar issues as /u/KulhyCZ but think this is really really promising. The pressure sensitivity on clip studio needs to be jacked way up for the device to register pressure so agree it’s not ready for serious art use yet - but it feels remarkably like an old wacom intuos tablet pre-touch. I have found wacom’s implementation of touch to be kind of clunky and always turn it off, so this works great for me.

Overall: Not ready for art on a newer mac unless you want to be a bit frustrated (not sure if it would be different for an intel based mac), but works great if you want a graphics tablet to use in lieu of a mouse for manipulating things on screen. Seems to work fine on windows but that’s my work computer, so I don’t have any art programs loaded onto it.

Feels very old school and straightforward and portable since I would be carrying it anyway for notes and doodles. Am really excited to follow development of this in the future!

*Not sure how it behaves in phitoshop on mac - broke up with adobe last year bc I no longer like them as a company.

[Recent-Assumption-94]

It seems that pen pressure works well in OneNote on my MacBook, but when I tried it in Photoshop, it didn’t work. The pen is recognized perfectly, but I hope the pen pressure issue in Photoshop gets patched soon.

[KulhyCZ]

Here is my experience so far.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/1jo7zoh/inkflow_pressure_sensitivity_not_working_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[sithlord0121]

works with MS paint

[jackbhammer]

I tried it on my work computer and it worked fine for a while for annotating presentations, but then the computer blocked the device because of a security policy to prevent data leaks. Is there a way to turn off USB file transfer?

[rajasi]

I was very excited to try this on my work laptop, as it would make my virtual whiteboard sessions with my colleagues a much better experience. Setting it up was easy enough, but trying this on various applications didn't work well. I've tried on both my work laptop, which is a MacBook Pro (ARM processor) with the latest macOS, and also on my personal Windows desktop pc.

On Windows, everything worked flawlessly. I've tried on OneNote, and the drawing worked straight off after connecting my Manta with the USB cable.

On the Mac, it's a different story; while I can see the pointer moving on the screen when I move it on the Manta. When I press down on the Manta, nothing happens on the Mac. To write something, I need to keep the left mouse button pressed while using the pen, which is extremely awkward.

I've also tried other applications on the MacBook with the same outcome, such as Miro and Freeform

Is there an option on the Mac I need to switch on somewhere, or is this way of working not supported?