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Calligraphy Brush - pressure not available

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
February 26, 2024
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Hi,

my calligraphy brushes in Illustrator don´t have the option "pressure" available anymore.

I have a Wacom Intuos and this problem is only since two weeks or so. Before, I was able to create new calligraphy brushes with pressure sensitivity available.

Can anyone please help me? I need this function desperately.

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CrnflkegrlAuthor

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After months of having no pressure sensitivity in Adobe Illustrator, and my company has forbidden to use an older version of Illustrator, I finally found the solution and it´s very simple:

Go to Edit > Settings
Down at the end of the list you find "devices" > go there
Activate the radio button for "Enable Wacom" (the terms may vary, I only have a German version of Illustrator, but you will find your way!)

Fixed!!! I had to adjust the pressure sensitivity in the Wacom settings for Illustrator a little, but finally, the "pressure" option when creating a brush is active again!!!

My God Adobe, please - it´s impossible that no one in user support knows about this problem!!!

Monika Gause

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@Crnflkegrl schrieb:

Activate the radio button for "Enable Wacom" (

That only helps some people.

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Bobby Henderson

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Yeah, checking that box often doesn't do anything to help. The Blob Brush might act like it is responding to pressure sensitive actions from the Wacom Pen, but then in other sessions it may not. You'll get monotone strokes when drawing. Enabling Windows Ink in the Wacom Tablet driver is the only way to get reliable pressure sensitive functions from the pen. But enabling Windows Ink also enables a LOT of extremely aggravating behaviors to take over the computer. Windows Ink is probably the thing I despise most about the Windows OS.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Which version, system and tablet is it?

Did you update the tablet driver?

Has there been a system update?

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CrnflkegrlAuthor

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Thank you for getting back to me, Monika!

My Illustrator is version 28.3

I´m on a Windows 11 Enterprise, Version 10.0.22631 Build 22631

The tablet driver is version 6.4.5-2 (it was recently updated, yes)

And the tablet is an Intuos Pro L, PTH 851, Version 1.0.0.209

I suspect it could be the tablet driver (yet everything here seems to be running fine, but before I updated it, Illustrator and Photoshop were complaining about the tablet driver being outdated).

In Photoshop I still have pressure sensitivity though.

Another suspect could be a third-party-app, the driver of my mouse (Evoluent) has newly been installed too (3 or 4 weeks ago).

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Bobby Henderson

Community Expert

Do you have Windows Ink enabled in the Wacom Tablet driver? Usually that option has to be checked for the tablet to have any pressure sensitive operations. Turning on Windows Ink unfortunately opens a big can of worms in other respects. I really wish Wacom could develop a tablet driver that completely bypasses Windows Ink.

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