Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone else has tried/had success at using the Wacom Bamboo in portrait mode (rotated 90 degrees from its standard landscape format). I travel lot with my Bamboo Pen & Touch, and often don't have desk space for both my laptop and the tablet in landscape mode. I've scoured Google and Wacom forums with no luck.

Thoughts?

http://community.wacom.com/tipstricks/131

I didn't watch the video, so I obviously haven't tried this tip out. I was just browsing the Wacom Tips and Tricks page when I stumbled across it - no guarantees, but good luck.

FatDragon, thanks for the link. It seems the tutorial is intended for people with the Intuos. Basically the drivers for the Intuos tablet support portrait mode, but the Bamboo doesn't seem to have that capability. I'll try to contact Wacom directly and ask about it.

Hey Ibid did you manage to do it? Figured out a way to use the Bamboo at 90 degrees? I'd love to hear a yeas. ;)

best regards

Mmm that'd save me a bit of real estate too. It'd have the USB lead point away rather than side ways. Doubtless you can do this on Ubuntu if you go to the ballache of getting the Wacom to work on it.

There's just a text file that defines everything about how it's mapped.

Funny story about changing the orientation on these guys. When I was first building the handwriting recognition three years ago, I was writing a desktop Python program to accept Wacom input and do recognition. But because it was using a third-party Python module to get input from the Wacom, it didn't notice that my screen was rotated, so it wrote sideways.

I was trying to write a simple mapper function to reorient things, but I'd been excitedly working on the project all night and it was 7 am. So I kept trying to figure out the coordinate transformation, which really shouldn't have been hard, but I kept messing it up, for like an hour. Then Scott woke up and I asked him to do it for me, and he did it in five minutes. (Later turned out that he'd done it wrong, too, and I redid it in another five minutes after I'd slept, and this time it worked).

Haha, here's that old code:
x = ((packet.y - wtab.inexty * (1 - zoom * wtab.inextx / wtab.inexty) / 2) / (wtab.inexty * zoom * wtab.inextx / wtab.inexty))
y = -packet.x / (wtab.inextx * zoom) + (1 + 1 / zoom) / 2

Then when it was used on a screen that wasn't rotated sideways, it would write sideways again, and I'd have to switch in another line of code to stop the unrotation. Now I see I should have just rotated my Wacom!