Perfect Freehand Drawing

This issue has been moved over from the Obsidian Excalidraw Plugin

Handwriting using Freedraw has now become feasible due to the palm rejection feature, however I still found handwriting to feel awkward and unreliable on iPad. The smoothing feels way too strong, and I get too many errors (for example the top two points of a U will often connect). I tried this perfect-freehand demo (GitHub), and immediately found it way more comfortable to use. It would be great if Excalidraw would be able to offer support for a similar style of freedraw, or an option to manually adjust the smoothing of the pen to make it more comfortable!

Weirdly the demo linked on the GitHub does not feel as great as the demo I’ve linked above 🤔

[baptiste]

Is there a chance to expose (optionally) some of those control settings in Excalidraw? I’m having trouble writing equations in Excalidraw, especially with the Apple Pencil, because the settings are a bit too strong (for me) – things like the dot on

just don’t get drawn at all on my tablet, and the overall feel is much less natural than with the freehand playground.

[kwetter]

Whats the status on this regarding the performance of pen drawing in excalidraw? To add on this I experience a lot of lag when drawing with pen in the Excalidraw Obsidian Plugin. Its better if I reduce the window size and its even more fluid when I use the in-browser excalidraw app, but there’s still slight lag, especially when there are many strokes. The perfect freehand browser app shows no or neglectable lag. Is this still something that’s being looked into?