[HN Gopher] Remarkable Pro Colors
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Remarkable Pro Colors
Author : ffaser5gxlsll
Score : 19 points
Date : 2026-02-01 12:12 UTC (3 days ago)
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| Terretta wrote:
| This is fantastically useful if you use these "pro"-fessionally.
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| Would let you soft proof how any spot color you've used in a PDF
| will come through for folks using the color device, and fix
| ability to distinguish before shipping (much as spot colored PDF
| creators _should_ be checking for color-blindness variants).
| Groxx wrote:
| > _I also have a fairly light touch normally, and the pressure
| curve on either the Remarkable 2 or Pro requires me to press too
| much for comfort to get any "width" in any of the tools._
|
| Yeah, this bothers me a lot with mine too (an RM2). I can't
| _believe_ how heavily I have to press to get full line width on
| many tools, it 's harder than I press when I use an eraser on a
| stubborn mark in real life.
|
| Responsiveness wise... the latency on common actions has
| increased incredibly in the past couple of years. Not pen
| drawing, that's still excellent, but general UI navigation and
| recognizing taps and long presses and whatnot have really gotten
| bad. At this point I've got it rolled back to 2.x almost all the
| time, which is also a whole lot more moddable than 3.x. I like
| many of the UI changes and additions in 3 (except infinitely
| vertically scrollable stuff, that keeps screwing up and
| interpreting taps and swipes as vertical scrolls when there's
| absolutely no additional content to show, so it just stops
| responding for a second while it scrolls three pixels down, and I
| would be thrilled if I could disable it completely), but not at
| the cost of responsiveness.
| svat wrote:
| How do you roll back to an older version?
| galleywest200 wrote:
| I would forgive quite a lot of the software decisions if they
| just let me export the snap-to-text highlights without the use
| of a third party tool. Many e-ink devices have had this feature
| for years now.
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| I currently use RCU (Remarkable Connection Utility) to extract
| my highlights: https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
| GZGavinZhao wrote:
| reMarkable just open-source your display drivers and E-ink render
| stack please. I'm pretty sure the pressure curve issue can be
| solved just by tuning a few parameters in the code. I appreciate
| reMarkable for adhering to GPL and giving us trivial root access
| to the machines, but while you're there I really don't see why
| you don't just do it fully.
|
| Even with the limited amount of usability, the community has
| already made some amazing additions, for example KOReader.
| Imagine how far we'd get if we can just write any app we want for
| reMarkable. I would completely get a typefolio and ditch my
| laptop if I have the ability to *easily* write my own app on the
| reMarkable without going through the loops of binary patching and
| other quirks.
| cyberax wrote:
| Sigh. ReMarkable.
|
| It's just remarkable how they keep shooting themselves in the
| foot. Their hardware is great, but their software just sucks. And
| for no real reason, as far as I can understand. They technically
| do have a cloud subscription that needs to lock out users, I
| guess?
|
| For example, they don't have handwriting recognition for non-
| Latin languages. They don't even have on-screen _keyboards_ for
| non-Latin languages. Their note-taker sucks. Their "remote
| whiteboard" feature doesn't work reliably. Etc.
|
| Just open source it all, and allow people to fix it. It's clear
| that your in-house developers can't do that.
| rationalist wrote:
| But then they can't try to force people into their sweet, sweet
| subscription services.
| tombert wrote:
| I don't have a Remarkable, but I do have a Pocketbook InkPad
| Color 3. I really like it, but color on that thing is pretty
| disappointing.
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| I was hoping that it would be a way to read through the comics I
| bought on Humble Bundle, but the colors are so washed out that I
| still just read them on a computer screen.
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| I have no idea what the engineering challenges are with making
| color e-ink, but they must be enormous because I (and many
| others) would pay considerable money for _good_ color on e-ink.
| ge96 wrote:
| I have an RM2 like how I don't have to charge it for months.
|
| The little tiny pocket (Go) was pretty neat but yeah.
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