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Digital Ink Layer

In prior Notebook versions, the Ink Layer or the “Digital Ink Layer” was called the “Transparency Mode.”  When you are using software other than Notebook or Ink Aware applications, and you pick up a stylus from the pen tray, a copy of the screen is captured and layered over your actual display, like a transparency laid on top of your working image.  You can then write with electronic ink over this layer, and use Screen Capture to capture images.

Notebook 10 software has some new Ink Layer features.  If you want Notebook 10’s ink layer to perform the same as Notebook 9’s

If you want a Notebook 9-type transparency layer, uncheck choice 3 and 5 above.  These new features let you more easily capture individual screens and save them into Notebook software, but these features might be confusing to Notebook 9 users.

This screen allows for additional customization.  If, for example, you are on the faculty in a teaching hospital, using Notebook software with CT scanning software, and wanted to annotate over brain scan images as seamlessly as possible, you might turn off options 1-3.

The Digital Ink border lets you know you are in software other than SMART Notebook or Ink Aware software.  You can annotate over ANY software, using the SMART Board™ pen tray stylus, or the Floating Tools.

When you have finished writing and use the Select Tool (by putting the stylus in the pen tray and pressing on the interactive whiteboard with your finger, or by getting the Floating Toolbar Select “pointer’ tool), you will see a pop-up menu giving you options for saving your annotations.

The upper right corner of the Digital Ink border has three icons: Clear, Screen Capture and Close.  As you read on page 191, these buttons can be turned off, if you want a Notebook 9 “Transparency Layer” look.

The middle picture is a close up of the Digital Ink layer pop-up, allowing you to save your annotations into Notebook 10 software.  Notebook 10 software will even open up for saving, if needed.

 Finally, if you don’t save your ink, and bump the board surface, the ink will disappear.  However, you will see a Click here to restore writing undo button in the lower right corner of your screen, for about three seconds.  Touch it and your annotations reappear.  If you do not get there in time, click on the Undo icon at the bottom of the Floating Toolbar to retrieve your annotations.