2023-10-16 16:54:11
It is nothing new that a iPad common Apple Pencil it is a powerful tool in the hands of designers (or anyone who likes to take notes or play with digital arts); but when we jump to the Mac, things change. On Apple desktops, anyone who wants something minimally acceptable in this sector has to resort to external hardware — like a graphics tablet, for example.
But what if the Apple Take your device integration a step further and integrate iPad drawing and markup tools with your personal computers? Well, the company itself hasn’t done it yet, but the Astropad (known for solutions such as Luna Display and the recently launched Rock Paper Pencil) tried to launch the Astropad Slatesoftware that makes it possible to use the tablet as a type of “graphics tablet” for the Mac.
With the software, which had its free public beta made available by the company, in addition to being able to use the Apple Pencil as a trackpad or mouse (to control the cursor on macOS), you can use it as an input method to draw in any application on our devices. Apple computers. It’s instantaneous: you drew with the pencil on the iPad screen, it appeared on the Mac screen at the same time.
Among the other cool features of the Astropad Slate, which requires at least iPadOS 15 and macOS 11 Big Sur to work, are the possibilities to use Apple Pencil to handwrite text on the iPad (which is automatically turned into digital text in any text field on your Mac) or use your hand to perform gestures like scrolling and zooming.
The solution, which supports the feature Apple Pencil on screen (Apple Pencil Hover), is different from the already consolidated Astropad Studio application. While the new software only presents an empty interface for drawing and writing, transforming the iPad into an input method for the Mac, the second simply simulates the computer screen on the tablet — which is not as accurate as working on the Astropad Slate .
You can sign up to download the public beta of Astropad Slate on this page.
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