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Posted by:
cathal connolly
11/17/2008 6:03 PM
During one of my demos at OpenForce, I used a zooming utility written by a friend of mine, Robert Burke, back when he worked for Microsoft Ireland. It's a great WPF-based tool that uses hotkeys to magnify the screen (via a smooth animation), and allows you to pan and zoom around the magnified image with either arrows keys or the mouse. You can also annotate the magnified screen using the mouse or a Tablet PC pen (it's also a great tool for users with poor vision). If you've watched any PDC/Channel9 videos recently you might have seen it in action and wondered what it was.
As I've was asked what it was by a few people after the talk and have already got one email enquiring about it, I thought I'd add a quick blog to let people know about this useful free tool. It's an opensource project called Nlarge, and can be downloaded from http://www.codeplex.com/NLarge . You'll need the .net framework 3.0 to run it as it uses WPF.
8 comment(s) so far...
Re: Magnifier tool for demo presentations
Thanks Cathal!
I was wondering how you managed that trick...
Great sessions by the way!
By John Ham on
11/17/2008 7:48 PM
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Re: Magnifier tool for demo presentations
Yes thank you, it's a very lovely tool.
By CityofSalemVA on
11/17/2008 9:41 PM
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Re: Magnifier tool for demo presentations
Another great tool that I use for magnification is ZoomIt!... you can find it here: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx
By Antonio Chagoury on
11/18/2008 1:23 PM
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Re: Magnifier tool for demo presentations
You could also try ZoomIt - by sysinternals (now available from MS as a free download). Its what all the MS presenters use.
By Charles Nurse on
11/18/2008 1:25 PM
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Re: Magnifier tool for demo presentations
thanks -- i often wondered how they did that
By CurlyFro on
11/18/2008 1:23 PM
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Re: Magnifier tool for demo presentations
@Charles/Antonio - i like zoomit as well, but find the smooth vector scaling of WPF means that text doesn't end up with jagged edges when I zoom in, so find it better for code demos.
By cathal connolly on
11/18/2008 1:26 PM
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Re: Magnifier tool for demo presentations
Okay. Antonio beat me to my comment... I use ZoomIt as well.
By Will Strohl on
11/19/2008 3:35 PM
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Re: Magnifier tool for demo presentations
Mmmm, excellent, thank you Cathal!
By Daniel Joseph on
12/27/2008 4:02 PM
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