The tablet active area

The tablet active area

The tablet active area is the area of your Intuos or Intuos Pro tablet that senses pen input or touch, and is indicated by the four corner markers on the tablet surface. The Intuos Pro pen tablet accepts both pen and touch input. The Intuos accepts pen and touch input on the CTH-460 and CTH-480 models.

The active area is a mapped representation of your computer screen(s). By default it uses the entire screen, or all screens if you have multiple displays. You can customize the mapping relationship from the Mapping tab. Also see Tablet area mapping and Screen area mapping.

Touch is ignored whenever the pen tip or eraser is within the tablet proximity range. Lift the pen and your hand away from the tablet active area to enable touch. See Using multi-touch.

Wherever you place the pen on the tablet, the screen pointer will jump to the corresponding point on the screen. The screen pointer indicates pen position, and follows the movement of the pen across the tablet surface.

To learn more about touch input, download the Wacom Gesture Guide for Windows and Mac from Wacom Customer Care.