700 downloads, and drawing on slides
Today slidePresenter saw its 700th download. I’ll count this as a milestone worth celebrating.
With the release of slidePresenter-0.30 on March 30th, slidePresenter is starting to show the features it should have as an intentionally lightweight live slideshow broadcasting tool. An improved delivery interface now includes controls for jumping to any slide, and the presentation editing interface now provides the option of importing slides from files located on the server (instead of requiring you to upload and import in one shot).
Next up will be features to allow the presenter to mark up the slides and have those markings appear on the viewers’ side. This will give you a way to highlight specific parts of a slide, as you might do with a pointer in a face-to-face presentation. A quick proof-of-concept mock-up is available for the curious, though at this point it only draws the shapes and doesn’t illustrate the broadcast of those markings to viewers. The actual feature will support several shapes and let you adjust line weight and color.
Expect this feature in slidePresenter-0.40.