digital ink

digital ink

English

Etymology

digital + ink

Noun

digital ink (uncountable)

1. Digital drawings and/or text.
   • 2004, Doug Bowman, Ernst Kruijff, Joseph J. LaViola Jr., Ivan Poupyrev, 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice, CourseSmart eTextbook, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 377:

     Another method of symbolic input using penbased input is to simply draw the actual strokes of the pen, as if the pen were writing with “digital ink.” This technique is available on many PDAs as well and allows users to easily and naturally input text, symbols, numbers, drawings, and so on.

   • 2011, Greg Harvey, Excel 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 661:

     If you're fortunate enough to be running Excel 2007 on a Tablet PC computer, you can mark up your worksheets with digital ink. […] By default, Excel chooses the felt tip pen as the pen type for annotating the worksheet with digital ink.