wacom + dual displays
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- horton
anyone with experience, comments, tips... before i go investing time and money into connecting a 2nd display.
how's this work? i've got a 9x12 intuos3, so am i basically going to be limited to using a wide strip (ex. maybe 5x12) of the tablet surface to represent 2 screen side by side? seems like a waste.
haven't found much info via google.
- colab0
I use 2 screens with a 9x12 and it's fine. If you want you can limit it to one screen for illustration work and use the mouse for the 2nd screen. But really I like it with the 2 screens.
- djurizen0
Same here... no problems at all. 9x12 w/ 2screens... in wacom prefs, you just map the surface to spread across the two screens... it utilizes the entire width and height of the tablet and maps it across the width of 2 screens as well as the height, which doesn't change.
- horton0
so how is it mapped across 2 screens? like i said above?
- horton0
so if i map 9x12 to match 2 screen without forced proportions, aren't my drawings going to be really distorted?
like if i draw a circle i'll get an oval?
- hektor9110
Hello guys what size would you recommend for a 20" inch screen.
the IMAC screen? Let me know I've been thinking in getting one!
- djurizen0
I am not exactly sure about the oval thing... you have a point, but all I can say is that once you map it out in prefs, it takes about 10 seconds to get used to, and you never think about it again. In prefs, you get a view of 2 boxes representing the screens, and you have an outline marquee that represents the spread of the wacom... you just expand it to your desire, across both squares or one... and it maps the tablet accordingly.
- ah ok makes sense.. so once the 2nd display is connected the prefs will change accordingly. thx.horton
- ifeltdave0
I use my wacom in mouse mode, am I the only one?
- mrbee28280
I have mine mapped like the above and have had it like that for the past 4 years. Basically your tablet is a bit distorted but after a few days you get totally used to it. I'm upgrading to the newer widescreen format but even with that, a second monitor distorts the surface area. They don't make a double wide so the difference has to come in somewhere.
