Major hole in the Tablet PC feature set

Link: The PDF for Lawyers blog has reported on the incompatibility of Microsoft’s digital ink technology in Tablet PC’s with Adobe Acrobat and the .pdf file format (commenting on a post from Phil Windley in Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog).

I’ve been working with a Tablet PC for over two months now, and use the tablet features in a variety of situations (in fact, I’m writing this post in my own handwriting.) Overall, I love the form factor and am finding new uses for the tablet in the practice of law all the time. Considering the rapid growth of the .pdf file format in the legal community, extension of digital ink functionality to Acrobat should be at the top of Microsoft’s (and Adobe’s) must-include list for future versions.

If Microsoft and/or Adobe engineers need an example of strong pen functionality in a non-Microsoft software title, they should check MindManager X5 Pro from Mindjet.