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Writing or drawing with SMART Ink

SMART Ink enables you to write or draw in digital ink over open applications, files, folders, websites and any other open window on your computer. You can write with your interactive product’s pens or with your finger or your mouse using with the drawing tools in the SMART Ink toolbar.

SMART applications, such as SMART Notebook software, SMART Meeting Pro software and the SMART Ink Document Viewer, don’t display the SMART Ink toolbar because they include their own ink tools that you can use to write directly in your document. All other open applications display the SMART Ink toolbar.

Note 

SMART ink is disabled when SMART Notebook software is in Transparent mode.

Tip 

If your interactive product supports multitouch, two people can work together to write, erase or interact with content anywhere on the interactive surface at the same time.

When you write in digital ink over an open application or in your SMART software, the ink becomes an object that you can move and manipulate.

To write with your interactive product’s tools

  1. Pick up a pen from your interactive product’s pen tray or press an ink color button on your interactive pen display and then pick up the pen.

  2. Write over an open file, folder or website on your interactive product.

To write with SMART Ink pen tools

  1. Using your interactive product’s pen tool, your finger or your mouse, select a pen color and a line thickness from the SMART Ink toolbar.

  2. Write over an open file, folder or website on your interactive product.

  3. Press Select on the toolbar when you’re done. Otherwise, your interactive product continues interpreting screen touches as pen strokes.

To write with calligraphic ink

  1. Using your interactive product’s pen tool, your finger or your mouse, select a pen color and a line thickness from the SMART Ink toolbar.

  2. Select the Calligraphic Ink check box.

  3. Write over an open file, folder or website on your interactive product.

  4. Press Select on the toolbar when you’re done. Otherwise, your interactive product continues interpreting screen touches as pen strokes.

In This Section 

Highlighting content

Manipulating ink

Erasing and clearing ink

Saving ink

Converting handwriting to text