Wacom Pen Tablet Driver supports all Bamboo tablets, the Graphire4, Graphire Bluetooth & Graphire3 pen tablets, and USB-connected Cintiq 17SX, DTF-720, DTU-710, DTF-521 & DTF-510 pen displays.
For concurrent use with a professional Wacom tablet, install this driver as well as driver version 6.05 or later. These two drivers can be added or removed independently of each other.
What's New
Version 5.2.5-3:
This driver includes improvements to calibration on certain displays.
This driver resolves several over-install issues, including pen settings not being preserved and cursor freezing at top left corner of screen.
Tap to right-click functionality has been improved with this driver.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Related Links Wacom Tablet Driver - For Intuos, Cintiq, and other "pro" tablets.
I'm experiencing the pen "not letting go of objects" and must click on a mouse I keep as well to release.. it happened a little before Lion but a lot more on Lion..
I did because you asked.. even if I thought that was a weird idea.. especially considering my lagging issue happens to both my computers (a MacBook and a MacPro) with both my Wacoms (got an older Bamboo and a brand new one with Touch). Well no it sure ain't the little plastic bit.. it feels software/sytem-related not quite "physical".
Apart from that the link is dead on here and those complicated Convoluted Wacom Goons make it really complicated getting thru the maze that is their site to the download areas..
Oh no actually the newest version on their site is 5.24-4.. these numbers drive me nuts almost as bad as the confusing Parallels Numbering. So in any case for some odd reason the driver that used to be on offer here on MU disappeared.. and the "latest" one on their site is older.. something's fishy..
WELL.. retrograding to the "latest version available on their site 5.24-4 seems to have fixed my problem.. and since they do not offer the 5.2.5-2 either on their site or here where the link died.. I guess they had issues with it.. but did not really communicate about it.. at least not on this very page.. ANYWAY.. ALL IS PEACHY ON MY END now.
This is still a release candidate, but it improves upon the previous candidate, the confusingly similarly named 5.2.3-4.
The most obvious improvements on my 2007 MacBook Pro are the two-finger swipe gesture (forward and back), pinch zoom and rotate. The biggest improvement is the two-finger swipe, which was very much a hit-and-miss affair before. Using the Chrome web browser, the new driver gets this gesture right 95% of the time now and with a much subtler movement of the fingers.
Pinch zoom and rotate are more responsive, but still kludgy. (Mind you, the trackpad on my MacBook doesn't recognize these gestures at all, so the implementation of this feature on my Bamboo is still good enough).
Overall, this driver is a modest but significant improvement over its predecessor.
Just installed it then, far better than the previous version. I have a Bamboo Touch & Pen and found that for some strange reason it would die and require a reboot or suddenly switch off touch support for no reason or worse the whole system hang. I've since upgraded to 5.2.3-4 and I haven't had a single problem yet.
For those who wonder, I use it not only as a drawing pad but also as a touch pad since it supports gestures etc.
KAWAII, Did you find that the touch responsiveness improved? I'm looking to buy one of these devices and in many reviews (pre-5.2.3-4 driver), the reviewers mention lag and jerky responsiveness as a problem. Thanks!
Dunno what to do.. I cannot upgrade to this version for my Bamboo..as somehow with this version it loses the connection sometimes right after logging in, sometimes after a few minutes of usage... and the version that works for me: 5.1.1 seems to be giving me the blue screen from hell.. I finally made a connection between that awful Snow Leopard Apple Window Server bug and this driver.. I think.. Snow Leopard should be renamed Freeze.
Based on my experience and the comments on this page, it looks like Wacom is officially in the crapware category. Buggy software and nobody at the company is doing anything about it.
What the hell are you talking about man?
Wacom is great, and I personally never even needed their support cause their products are top-notch.
Plus, they frequently update their drivers nowadays.
I've never had issues with a Wacom driver, but this one seems riddled with bugs. Dropped connections are the best part. Worse is that the pen tip no longer triggers rollovers in Safari (among other apps), or acts anything like you would expect it to.
On several occasions, I've had to switch to a mouse just to stop the cursor from constantly being in "drag mode."
Going to try to uninstall and reinstall the previous version now.
[Version 5.2.0-6]
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Wacom Pen Tablet Driver supports all Bamboo tablets, the Graphire4, Graphire Bluetooth & Graphire3 pen tablets, and USB-connected Cintiq 17SX, DTF-720, DTU-710, DTF-521 & DTF-510 pen displays.
For concurrent use with a professional Wacom tablet, install this driver as well as driver version 6.05 or later. These two drivers can be added or removed independently of each other.
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Also, does anyone use InDesign CS3 and find the pan/scroll functionality of the pen to be very, very slow?
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http://www.wacom.eu/index2.asp?pid=29&lang=en
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WELL.. retrograding to the "latest version available on their site 5.24-4 seems to have fixed my problem.. and since they do not offer the 5.2.5-2 either on their site or here where the link died.. I guess they had issues with it.. but did not really communicate about it.. at least not on this very page.. ANYWAY.. ALL IS PEACHY ON MY END now.
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The most obvious improvements on my 2007 MacBook Pro are the two-finger swipe gesture (forward and back), pinch zoom and rotate. The biggest improvement is the two-finger swipe, which was very much a hit-and-miss affair before. Using the Chrome web browser, the new driver gets this gesture right 95% of the time now and with a much subtler movement of the fingers.
Pinch zoom and rotate are more responsive, but still kludgy. (Mind you, the trackpad on my MacBook doesn't recognize these gestures at all, so the implementation of this feature on my Bamboo is still good enough).
Overall, this driver is a modest but significant improvement over its predecessor.
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Kawaii-Gardiner reviewed on 28 Jul 2010
For those who wonder, I use it not only as a drawing pad but also as a touch pad since it supports gestures etc.
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Wacom is great, and I personally never even needed their support cause their products are top-notch.
Plus, they frequently update their drivers nowadays.
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On several occasions, I've had to switch to a mouse just to stop the cursor from constantly being in "drag mode."
Going to try to uninstall and reinstall the previous version now.