10.4: Use serial Wacom tablets in Mac OS X

May 22, '06 07:30:06AM

Contributed by: thinkyhead

Tiger only hintWacom doesn't provide a driver for "obsolete" serial tablets in Mac OS X. Nature abhors a vacuum. So an open source project emerged to fill the void. TabletMagic is a free, open source driver and preference pane for Wacom serial tablets.

Supported model numbers start with PL, SD, UD, KT, and CT, and end in -R. It has been tested with tablet models UD-1212-R, UD-1218-R, CT-0045-R, PL-300, and PL-400. Intuos (GD) is not yet supported. ADB tablets are not supported. The updated preference pane provides an improved interface to control the driver, configure low-level tablet parameters, set mapping options and presets, and test the tablet.

TabletMagic 2 includes full source code under the General Public License.

[robg adds: I have a newer tablet, so I can't test this one -- but I know there are a fair number of serial tablets out there, so perhaps this will help someone...]

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