Novidades Wacom

Adobe® to Launch Acrobat® 9

On June 2, 2008 Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that the new, Adobe® Acrobat® 9 software product line will launch in July of 2008. According to Adobe, Acrobat® 9 offers a "...significant upgrade that will transform the process of creating and sharing electronic documents. Acrobat 9 delivers native support for Adobe Flash® technology, the ability to unify a wide range of content in rich PDF Portfolios, and access to real-time capabilities for co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues". The pencil and eraser mark-up tools in Acrobat 9 work well with the Wacom Pen.

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Autodesk® Launches SketchBook® 2009®

Autodesk has just launched SketchBook® 2009®. Ideal for use with Tablet PCs or Wacom pen tablets and pen displays, Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro software is your digital sketchpad with incredibly smooth pressure sensitive support and a fast and easy pen-based user experience. Use it in any creative process where pen and paper would traditionally be used.

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Wacom Wins Awards

On June 12, 2008 in London's O2 Arena, the Cintiq 12WX won a Macworld Award. The Macworld Awards recognize products and vendors that have made a significant contribution throughout the past year. Read More > On June 23rd Wacom's Cintiq 12WX received the coveted 2008 red dot award for product design from the Design Zentrum in Essen, Germany. Read More > TIPA (Technical Image Press Association) awarded the Cintiq 12WX "Best Digital Accessory" for 2008. Read More >

Enter To Win A Camera

Buy a white or blue Bamboo Fun pen tablet at WacomDirect.com during the month of July 2008 and be automatically entered to win a new SLR digital camera from Canon. You can pick any size white or blue Bamboo Fun and enter to win. The winner will be announced and notified the first week of August 2008.

SIGGRAPH 2008

Don't miss attending one of the largest conferences for computer graphics and interactive techniques. This year's event occurs August 12-14, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA. You can see lots of Wacom Cintiqs in action during the conference at the following places: Wacom (booth #925), FJORG! The Studio, and The Art Institute (booth #1109).

2008 Dwell Wacom Live Eco-Design Rendering Challenge

On June 6th, 2008, as part of the third annual Dwell on Design Conference + Exhibition + Home Tours, Dwell Magazine and Wacom put on a Live Architectural Design competition held in the Courtyard of LA museum of Contemporary Art. The "2008 Dwell-Wacom Live Eco-Design Rendering Challenge", featured seven of Los Angeles' top design-rendering gurus competing in a video-game-tournament-meets Iron-Chef-style competition. The contestants worked directly on the screens of Wacom Cintiq Interactive Pen Displays producing complete, detailed renderings in less than one hour.

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Getting A Grip On RSI

Pick up a Wacom pen and it looks and feels like the real thing. Start using it and a natural media experience comes to life. Suddenly you're drawing, painting and writing with a true pen-on-paper feel. While creative control is an obvious benefit of pen use, it is the use of the pen itself that can offer not so obvious comfort benefits to those dealing with repetitive stress injuries. When used alternately with another input device, such as a mouse, the hand, wrist and arm position while gripping a pen provides freedom of movement that is much more in line with our natural structure.

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