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Highlight is a tool designed with teachers and demos in mind: it helps you attracting the attention of your audience on what happens on the screen. It is designed to be as unobtrusive and simple as possible, while letting you express your communicating skills efficiently.
What's New
Version 1.5:
- A lot of user requests added.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Downloads:19,282 |
| Version Downloads:10,005 |
| Type:Business : Presentation Tools |
| License:Free |
| Date:30 Dec 2009 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Highlight is a tool designed with teachers and demos in mind: it helps you attracting the attention of your audience on what happens on the screen. It is designed to be as unobtrusive and simple as possible, while letting you express your communicating skills efficiently.
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srfriggen reviewed on 27 Nov 2011
thank you!
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M31 reviewed on 10 Oct 2011
Thanks
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Switters reviewed on 01 Jul 2010
One of the comments says it's possible to configure the keyboard command that activates and deactivates Highlight in the Styles panel. But I don't see any option to do that when I look there. The only parameters I can adjust are the line width and whether the tool tips are displayed. Am I missing something?
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Gcoghill reviewed on 07 Mar 2010
Works great.
Free!
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Adding lines with arrows would be helpful.
Thank you for making Highlight available.
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- Shift toggles the rectangle drawing tool
- Alt toggles the oval drawing tool
- Ctrl toggles the line drawing tool
- Ctrl+shift toggles the grid lines (vertical or horizontal only)
- Backspace removes the last shape
- Command K will clear all shapes
- A custom shortcut (set in the styles panel) will toggle the application on/off (system wide)
The arrow can be accessed via Control + Option
i can't seem to inactivate the highlight using the the command button shows in pen styles "Command-F1" ....nothing happened
Please show me how to use it
thanks
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Pablito reviewed on 25 May 2009
One small bug is when you open About.. then you are not able to close, because if so, you draw on the screen. I had to set some shortcut to disable the "pen" and close windows, etc.
But the author is really neat, responsive, polite, and I really appreciate. It's the best one in this category. I recommend. And want to see more updates, maybe some features to be easy to draw, like figures, shortcuts to "pens", etc. I am not good on ideas and creativity.
Please, keep going. You did a really good job. I could not do it! Thanks!
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Tice reviewed on 17 May 2007
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Flying_Meat reviewed on 08 Sep 2006
It would be a irritating to always turn off the hints, change size and color, before using the tool, every time.
Also, the pen type selection keys really should be listed as a note in prefs, or the "About Highlight" window, in case one forgets which keys to press :D
Nice concept though.
Works well with command-shift-4 !
Also, I noticed that there seems to be another application called HighLight 1.0 (!??!?)
Different type of tool, but the same name.
When the program started it used a freeform pen. . .then all os a sudden it changed to an oval. The 'pen styles' window only changes color and size, not the style of the pen.
With some improvements this will be a nice addition to my 'presentation' toolbox.
Good program, now that I know how to use it.
Thanks.
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Even Apple's own "transparent and above all apps" clock doesn't work on top of recent keynote presentations.
It used to work on top of Keynote 1.0 IIRC, but recent versions "capture" the display for their private use, preventing any other application from doing anything on screen during the presentation (probably because of potential ugly popups showing up)
Besides, I must stress that Highlight is free, and therefore not something I spend a lot of time working on. It's useful for me, and I hope it's useful for other people as well, but that's about it.
If you have special needs, send me an email, we can talk about it, but posting something like "it doesn't work as expected", when there are no fees, no promises and where I'm not necessarily aware of the user's feedback is just not useful.