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Surface Pro 3 Pen Button Customization
I am a previous owner of a Surface Pro 2, and loved the capability it provided of customizing the button commands per program through the Wacom drivers. As a new owner of the surface Pro 3, I a very disappointed to discover that the same functionality is not available in the N-trig driver options. As an artist, the primary use of my surface is for drawing inside of programs like Adobe Photoshop. Not being able to customize the button functions on the new pen is detrimental to my efficiency as a digital artist. Without the ease of having quick access to specific commands through the pen buttons, I am forced to either dig through the menus and submenus of the program to execute a simple command, or connect a keyboard to use hotkeys. One of the greatest features of the surface is the ability to draw inside of photoshop as if it were a paper notebook, freeing me from my desktop work space and removing the requirement of the mouse and keyboard. Without the customization of these pen buttons, I lose that freedom.
I spoke to a Microsoft support tech this morning who informed me that "hopefully" in the next month or two, this feature will be added to the pen drivers. While this is a new product, and I understand that some features are still in development, this feature is crucial in the workflow of any artist using this device. I already own a desktop computer and a laptop; so again, the primary function of the Surface Pro 3 for me is drawing inside of programs like Photoshop without the need for a mouse and keyboard.
I don't know if any Microsoft representatives read these discussions, but if there is a way I could be included in any sort of pre-release developmental versions of drivers that introduce this capability, I would love to be a part of it and am happy to provide feedback from an artist's perspective.
Thanks for reading.
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2015-04-12T18:51:01+00:00 I too am looking for the ability to set my pen up as i NEED to use it. For one thing I don't really like the layout of the tablet version of one note and would like to still use the one I paid good money for. Obviously when I uninstalled the silly tablet version, the top pen button is now worthless. because I cannot configure it to bring up my One Note.
Please let us control our environment after we spent over 2000.00 for a complete setup. Please.
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Anonymous
2015-04-12T21:56:15+00:00 I too am looking for the ability to set my pen up as i NEED to use it. For one thing I don't really like the layout of the tablet version of one note and would like to still use the one I paid good money for. Obviously when I uninstalled the silly tablet version, the top pen button is now worthless. because I cannot configure it to bring up my One Note.
Please let us control our environment after we spent over 2000.00 for a complete setup. Please.
Are you saying when you uninstalled OneNote Modern app you were unable to use the top button to launch OneNote Desktop? Isn't that configurable in the Surface app? Does it break it?
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Anonymous
2015-04-13T02:18:55+00:00 Yes, with the Windows 8.1 free One Note uninstalled from my Surface Pro 3 AND One Note 2010 installed, when I push the button on the top of the pen, it does nothing. It will not open the desktop version, which makes perfect sense since it is trying to open the path to the Windows One Note little App and is not pointing to the Windows 2010 Full Office App.
Hmmm, I wonder if I can make a registry change. Has anyone tried?
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Anonymous
2015-04-13T02:25:18+00:00 Are using the "surface" app to configure the pen? It's in the windows store.