How can I use a drawing tablet?

[phool]

How do I record myself drawing digitally in a program other than Open Canvas? I use a tablet pen for most of my drawings, and recently I've seen videos of people recording themselves drawing in digital programs like Sai paint tool and Photoshop on Youtube. I don't know if there's a program or something you might have to download or anything. Anyone know?
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[acknak]

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As far as I know, there is no support in OpenOffice for using a drawing tablet.

Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) is an excellent Free/Open Source drawing application that supports drawing tablets.

[keme]

See the software that comes with the tablet. (May be a control panel applet.)

The tablets I know of have an option to set absolute (sketchpad-) or relative (mouse pad) mode. I believe I've seen "window absolute" too, but that's not available in the software for the tablets I currently have access to (Wacom). With absolute mode, the tablet points correspond to onscreen points. Draw doesn't have a full screen mode, but if you maximize the window, hide the sidebar, and perhaps hide or undock toolbars too, you may have something usable for the absolute mode. It depends on tablet and screen having the same geometry, I guess, and in any case it's not as good as full tablet support.