Wacom pen offseted pointer location

[Edmis]

After last update (1.8.4)  wacom pen after press, starts tool offseted to left, this only happens in affinity applications.

[JakobW]

Yes! Exactly the same happened to me yesterday after updating. It took a while and several attempts at calibrating, before realizing it only happened in updated Affinity Photo v. 1.84 and not Designer 1.83.

Reverting to Photo v. 1.83  solved it, but of course not really a sustainable solution.

On Windows 10 64 bit btw, using a Wacom Cintiq 22.

 

Edited August 12, 2020 by JakobW

[walt.farrell]

There's a command-line argument that may resolve these issues for you in 1.8.4.

See, for example, this post confirming that by another user, which also points to a post describing the solution:

 

[JakobW]

Hi Walt,

Many thanks for your reply and tip. I've applied the solution now under v. 1.84 and it did the trick 👍

However, and pardon me if I don't understand the concept correctly, but isn't this actually devolving the intended functionality of the program? I mean, if I understand right, the developers did away with windows ink to provide a more accurate input solution, and with this current fix I'm basically circumventing that  wintab solution to re-introduce windows ink? 

Is there not a setting somewhere, in Affinity or Windows, where I could disable ink and instead use the full wintab solution?

[walt.farrell]

41 minutes ago, JakobW said:

Is there not a setting somewhere, in Affinity or Windows, where I could disable ink and instead use the full wintab solution?

Glad to have helped.

I'm not sure about other settings. You might look at other topics about this subject, and especially for posts by Mark Ingram. I think he's said they're considering some additional changes. They've made several changes/iterations during 1.8.

[Edmis]

for me it seems to fix the offset, but now have to live with windows ink rings on touches. Also maybe not related, but appears  to not react anything else except drawing area (layer, panel, tool panel, even close).
I guess must go back to 1.8.3 for some time

[Callum]

Hi Edmis,

Please could you try the latest beta builds found below? They should solve this problem.

Photo Windows Beta

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/122124-affinity-photo-windows-customer-beta-185703/

Designer Windows Beta

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/122125-affinity-designer-windows-customer-beta-185703/

Thanks

C

[JakobW]

Hi @Callum

(on Win 10 Home 64 bit +  Wacom Cintiq 22)

I just tried the Beta version of Photo, and can confirm it worked for me - the offset pointer issue was fixed out of the box. I haven't done much testing, but it seemed like all tools and menus that I did try were responsive to pen input as well.

However, switching to Beta also meant losing all my imported brushes and shortcuts, and don't want to fiddle around with reinstalling those right now, so have reverted to the standard 1.84 release using the  '--disable-wintab' shortcut fix for now, as that also worked for me. 

Let's see if @Edmis is successful with the beta too.

Best,

J

 

[Edmis]

Photo beta build seems to fix the problem

Amazing.