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Well, I'm considered to be the faculty dinosaur in Biology in my department. Most of the faculty under 30 years of age put an enormous amount of material on the web, and I'm under increasing peer pressure to comply. While I could post PowerPoint presentations on the web, I hate PowerPoint presentations. I have looked at some Khan Academy tutorials, and they seem much more personal and one-to-one than a slide show.

 

So, I got a Wacom tablet, Camtasia, and am going to give screencasts a shot. I would love to use a drawing application that supports an italic "nib" (i.e., a digital translation that looks like italic).

 

Have any of you used a Wacom tablet with a Mac? Any suggestions for drawing programs for making "whiteboard" presentations in screencasts?

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Oooh, I love my wacom tablet with a mac. The best thing I know of that will do that for you is gimp (basically photoshop but a free version of it). Just make a brush or download one that behaves exactly like an italic. (Basically a line set to 45º slant) and then just write! That should cover everything you need.

 

I don't know any other way to get an 'italic' nib on a mac.

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I had never heard of Paper Show, but it looks a lot less awkward than a Wacom tablet in that you are actually writing on something and seeing the results of that writing RIGHT ON THAT PAGE. Wacom's pad that does this is very $$ and more like an artist's canvas, not a whiteboard.

 

From the little demo, it looks like you have to use Paper Show paper. Can this be run through an inkjet printer first, to allow marking up an existing graph or photo? I'm not sure how this works.

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Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/) has a built-in calligraphy tool. You can adjust both the nib angle and stroke width. The limitation is that you cannot simulate pen-angle changes but you wouldn't need that for Italic anyway.

 

One can use a scanned image for the background - or draw one as the base layer.

 

Inkscape requires Apple's X-11 to be installed on Macs.

 

As mentioned above, GIMP can do the job as well. There is now a native GIMP distribution for OS X: gimp.lisanet.de/.

 

I'm sure Photoshop and Illustrator will have options for their pen or brush tools to be manipulated like an edged nib. While not as functional, Inkscape is more than adequate - plus it is free.

 

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I had never heard of Paper Show, but it looks a lot less awkward than a Wacom tablet in that you are actually writing on something and seeing the results of that writing RIGHT ON THAT PAGE. Wacom's pad that does this is very $ and more like an artist's canvas, not a whiteboard.

 

From the little demo, it looks like you have to use Paper Show paper. Can this be run through an inkjet printer first, to allow marking up an existing graph or photo? I'm not sure how this works.

 

You can print anything you want on Paper Show paper (inkjet works fine). Then when you show the digital image you draw on its print and your markup is added to the digital presentation. If you re-use images / sheets, you can also use a transparent sheet of paper on top of it for the markup. The pen sees through it. The only problem (as with all digital pens - Anoto-based or otherwise) is that they are ballpoints. I'm still waiting for someone to realize that I need a fountain pen version ;).

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I'm sure Photoshop and Illustrator will have options for their pen or brush tools to be manipulated like an edged nib. While not as functional, Inkscape is more than adequate - plus it is free.

 

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Yes, photoshop and illustrator have some of the most powerful brush tools in the market. I think only corel painter pro has better brush tools. However Inkscape or GIMP will do it just fine.

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you can also have a try with art programs such as Sketchbook, Mypaint, Krita , Medibang Paint,Gimp......

 krita was the most intuitive and convenient graphic editor from what I tried out on pc.  I drew with a XP-Pen drawing tablet a lot and just couldn't get myself to use the mouse for it, I would highly recommend a tablet. You can draw with a mouse, but a tablet is much easier and more natural feeling. Also, you can use pen pressure, which means you can draw with varying line size and opacity. 

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On 3/2/2021 at 1:28 AM, truhue said:

you can also have a try with art programs such as Sketchbook, Mypaint, Krita , Medibang Paint,Gimp......

 krita was the most intuitive and convenient graphic editor from what I tried out on pc.  I drew with a XP-Pen drawing tablet a lot and just couldn't get myself to use the mouse for it, I would highly recommend a tablet. You can draw with a mouse, but a tablet is much easier and more natural feeling. Also, you can use pen pressure, which means you can draw with varying line size and opacity. 

 

Krita is really good. (There are also laptops with "tablet screens" like some of the ThinkPads which are nice to use with Krita.)

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