In the Input Panel version 1.0, you could transfer your handwritting as "ink"
to the document, i.e. capture your signature and put it in a document as an
image. I cannot find a way to do this with the newest version of the Input
Panel. Does anyone know how to do that?

What program are you attempting to enter Ink into? It has been a while, but
I don't recall direct ink from the Input Panel. Maybe you're thinking about
the old Write Anywhere screen? Have you looked at the Experience Pack for
Tablet PC now available for free download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
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"Vandygirl" <Vandygirl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> In the Input Panel version 1.0, you could transfer your handwritting as
> "ink"
> to the document, i.e. capture your signature and put it in a document as
> an
> image. I cannot find a way to do this with the newest version of the Input
> Panel. Does anyone know how to do that?

Vandygirl wrote:
> In the Input Panel version 1.0, you could transfer your handwritting as "ink"
> to the document, i.e. capture your signature and put it in a document as an
> image. I cannot find a way to do this with the newest version of the Input
> Panel. Does anyone know how to do that?

If you are using Office XP or 2003, you don't need the TIP to insert
ink. Actually the new TIP can't do that anyway, AFAIK.

In Office 2003 it's "View => Toolbars => Free hand drawings and text"
(or roughly similar, since I translated that from a german version of
Office 2003...) This will show a toolbar with inking tools, just select
the pen there and you can draw/ink into the document.

In other applications, you may be able to use something similar to
Insert => Object => Ink Drawing and Writing. This will insert a field
into which you can ink. I'm not sure how well such documents will view
on non-tablet PCs, though.

regards,
- Jan

I think a write everywhere feature would have been better, but with a pad
line overlay over the top of where you are writing so you wright on a
straight line would have been a better solution than the new tablet input
panel. There are wuite a few faults in handwriting recognition, mostly with
formatting and the absence of recognition training (which will be included in
Longhorn)...