Remarkable Pro Colors
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Remarkable Pro Colors
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Re: Remarkable Pro Colors
#2This is fantastically useful if you use these “pro”-fessionally.
Would let you soft proof how any spot color you've used in a PDF will come through for folks using the color device, and fix ability to distinguish before shipping (much as spot colored PDF creators should be checking for color-blindness variants).
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#3>I also have a fairly light touch normally, and the pressure curve on either the Remarkable 2 or Pro requires me to press too much for comfort to get any “width” in any of the tools.
Yeah, this bothers me a lot with mine too (an RM2). I can't believe how heavily I have to press to get full line width on many tools, it's harder than I press when I use an eraser on a stubborn mark in real life.
Responsiveness wise... the latency on common actions has increased incredibly in the past couple of years. Not pen drawing, that's still excellent, but general UI navigation and recognizing taps and long presses and whatnot have really gotten bad. At this point I've got it rolled back to 2.x almost all the time, which is also a whole lot more moddable than 3.x. I like many of the UI changes and additions in 3 (except infinitely vertically scrollable stuff, that keeps screwing up and interpreting taps and swipes as vertical scrolls when there's absolutely no additional content to show, so it just stops responding for a second while it scrolls three pixels down, and I would be thrilled if I could disable it completely), but not at the cost of responsiveness.
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#4reMarkable just open-source your display drivers and E-ink render stack please. I'm pretty sure the pressure curve issue can be solved just by tuning a few parameters in the code. I appreciate reMarkable for adhering to GPL and giving us trivial root access to the machines, but while you're there I really don't see why you don't just do it fully.
Even with the limited amount of usability, the community has already made some amazing additions, for example KOReader. Imagine how far we'd get if we can just write any app we want for reMarkable. I would completely get a typefolio and ditch my laptop if I have the ability to *easily* write my own app on the reMarkable without going through the loops of binary patching and other quirks.
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#5> I also have a fairly light touch normally, and the pressure curve on either the Remarkable 2 or Pro requires me to press too much for comfort to get any “width” in any of the tools. Yeah, this bothers me a lot with mine too (an RM2). I can't believe how heavily I have to press to get full line width on many tools, it's harder than I press when I use an eraser on a stubborn mark in real life. Responsiveness wise...…
How do you roll back to an older version?
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#6> I also have a fairly light touch normally, and the pressure curve on either the Remarkable 2 or Pro requires me to press too much for comfort to get any “width” in any of the tools. Yeah, this bothers me a lot with mine too (an RM2). I can't believe how heavily I have to press to get full line width on many tools, it's harder than I press when I use an eraser on a stubborn mark in real life. Responsiveness wise...…
I would forgive quite a lot of the software decisions if they just let me export the snap-to-text highlights without the use of a third party tool. Many e-ink devices have had this feature for years now.
I currently use RCU (Remarkable Connection Utility) to extract my highlights: https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
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#7Sigh. ReMarkable.
It's just remarkable how they keep shooting themselves in the foot. Their hardware is great, but their software just sucks. And for no real reason, as far as I can understand. They technically do have a cloud subscription that needs to lock out users, I guess?
For example, they don't have handwriting recognition for non-Latin languages. They don't even have on-screen _keyboards_ for non-Latin languages. Their note-taker sucks. Their "remote whiteboard" feature doesn't work reliably. Etc.
Just open source it all, and allow people to fix it. It's clear that your in-house developers can't do that.
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#8I don't have a Remarkable, but I do have a Pocketbook InkPad Color 3. I really like it, but color on that thing is pretty disappointing.
I was hoping that it would be a way to read through the comics I bought on Humble Bundle, but the colors are so washed out that I still just read them on a computer screen.
I have no idea what the engineering challenges are with making color e-ink, but they must be enormous because I (and many others) would pay considerable money for good color on e-ink.
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#9I have an RM2 like how I don't have to charge it for months.
The little tiny pocket (Go) was pretty neat but yeah.
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#10Sigh. ReMarkable. It's just remarkable how they keep shooting themselves in the foot. Their hardware is great, but their software just sucks. And for no real reason, as far as I can understand. They technically do have a cloud subscription that needs to lock out users, I guess? For example, they don't have handwriting recognition for non-Latin languages. They don't even have on-screen _keyboards_ for non-Latin langua…
But then they can't try to force people into their sweet, sweet subscription services.