Recommendations for affordable alternative to WACOM

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Re: Recommendations for affordable alternative to WACOM

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strider2000 wrote:Buttons are better in 11.1!!!
I just updated to ASP 11.1 and the button sizes are much better for the Windows Surface Pro!!! Yea. I imagine the same will be true for Cintiq Companion.
It does! Here are some issues you may need to consider and a possible fix:

Issues:

The buttons and text look much, MUCH better now. But if you're using Windows UI scaling, the UI may actually be too big now. The way to check is:

1. Select an FBF layer.
2. Look at the Timline.

Can you see your keyframes data? If you're on a Cintiq Companion 2 and your UI Scaling is set to 150% or higher then probably not. In my case, the Timeline becomes completely unusable in this situation.

Here's my 'Fix':

I dispensed with Windows UI Scaling altogether: I reduced the screen res from 2560 x 1440 to 1600 x 900 and I set UI Scaling to 100% (which effectively disables it.) Now ASP 11.1 fits on the tablet's 13" display perfectly--the buttons are the correct size, there's plenty of workspace, and I can now see several rows of keyframes on the Timeline.

Doing this also fixes scaling problems with Adobe Photoshop (any version), FastStone Capture, FontExpert...basically, any program that has problems with UI Scaling on high pixel density screens.

The only 'downside' is that, with the reduced screen res, HD movies and games will not be seen at the highest available quality but, IMO, that's a meager price to pay for a mobile tablet computer I can comfortably produce my work on.

I'll post more tips with pics to illustrate later.

G.
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