December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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23.2 Spotlighting Content in Your Presentations with ZoomIt
If you do any public speaking or demonstrations of software or source code, you really need some form of zoom tool. Zoom tools are critical to help you get your points across, regardless of whether you’re making a presentation to a large audience or doing a code review for a few colleagues.
ZoomIt from Sysinternals is a very lightweight zoom tool with several terrific features. It lets you pan and zoom on the entire screen, offers a markup/annotation feature, and lets you display a break timer to remind your audience that they’re supposed to return in 10 minutes, not 45.
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Tool | ZoomIt |
Version covered | 1.0 |
Home page | |
Power Tools page | |
Summary | Simple zoom tool with a drawing feature for marking up portions of your screen during presentations |
License type | Custom, see http://www.sysinternals.com/Licensing.html |
Online resources | Forum |
Related tools in this book | Magnifixer |
Getting Started
ZoomIt, like most tools from Sysinternals, is a simple standalone executable. Unpack it from the .zip distribution and drop it in a useful folder (perhaps one in your PATH variable).
Tip
Define a MagicWord in SlickRun (discussed in the previous article) so you can quickly launch ZoomIt with a minimum of hassle.
Using ZoomIt
The first time you launch ZoomIt, you’ll ...
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