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Customizable Writing Area in ritePen 3.0

Customizable Writing Area in ritePen 3.0


ritePen 3.0 comes with the new customizable architecture. Now you can adapt writing and recognition to a variety of workflow requirements, applications, and desktop configurations.

One example is optional enabling (or disabling) of ritePen's writing on top of certain application windows. By default, the current version ritePen 3.0.17 does not allow writing in the "document area" of three drawing applications: Microsoft Paint, OneNote and InkeSeine (in Paint, you can write anywhere when the Text box is active, so you can enter text on images using ritePen).

Users may enable writing on the OneNote window. Please read carefully instructions below and download the file below to configure ritePen appropriately:

  • Download the configuration .flt file below.
  • Save the .flt file in ritePen's application folder (normally, ...\Program Files\EverNote\ritePen)
  • Close ritePen if it is running.
  • Rename the touch.flt file in the application folder to backup the default configuration.
  • Rename the saved file to touch.flt.
  • Restart ritePen. New configuration will take force immediately
    (if it doesn't work, close ritePen, reboot your PC and start ritePen).

Note: With any ritePen configuration, you can still write on the whole screen. Disabling ritePen on top of "drawing" applications means that you cannot start writing new fragment of text on those windows. However, if your handwritten text was started outside the excluded windows, you can freely cross them during writing.