PenPresenter Program

PenPresenter is designed particularly for presentation. It can be applied in PowerPoint and the other application programs. The functions of PenPresenter can help you to explain the key points in your speech and make your presentation easy to understand.

Startup

You can find the “ PenPresenter” program in Start Menu on the bottom-left of the screen and launch it. PenPresenter can be applied in any application program. However, if it will be used in “View-Show” mode of PowerPoint, you have to launch PenPresenter before you start to display films.

Once PenPresenter is launched, the simple toolbar is appeared immediately on the screen. When you tap on the “Expand Toolbar Icon” , the original toolbar is the 9-icon toolbar as shown below (Figure 1) and it can offer you more functions for annotating.

Figure 1

When you tap on the “Annotate” Icon , the operating interface is changed from to , and the “Annotate” Icon becomes the “Brush” Icon . In the meantime, the “Eraser” Icon and the “Clear All” Icon in operating mode are gray before you are ready to write. Once you begin to write, the interface will be changed to immediately. The “Eraser” Icon and the “Clear All” Icon allow you to remove any stoke or all lines drawn on the screen. You also can tap on the “Expand Toolbar Icon” and the toolbar will be expanded to that including 11 icons as shown below (Figure 2), which can help you to change the color or shape of the pen trace.

Figure 2

The operating interface in the “Write Pad” mode is the same as the “Annotate” mode. While you tap on the “Write Pad” Icon , the operating interface will become from the simple toolbar to the 13-icon toolbar (Figure 3), and the background will be changed to a full-screen White Pad (Figure 4). You can also change the background color and insert any image file as your favorite background picture (Figure 5) as well as the color and shape of the pen tip.

Figure 3

Figure 4

Figure 5

All strokes you annotate on the screen will be removed and not be left behind on the original file, as you tap on the “Close” Icon and finish the annotating. However, you can save the annotated screen you want as a JPEG image.

Functions of Buttons on PenPresenter Toolbar

Annotate

Annotate directly on the screen.

Write Pad

Open a full-screen Write Pad to annotate. You can write and draw on this empty screen. You can also change its color and the background picture by the other buttons on the toolbar.

Brush

Draw or write with a soft-tipped pen to freely draw on the screen. The Brush leaves a thicker trace as you apply more pressure to Pen Tip. The harder you draw, the thicker the trace is.

Eraser

Remove the strokes drawn on the screen one by one until all strokes are cleared up.

Clear All

Clear all strokes. After you clear all strokes, the screen will be recovered its original picture without any annotation and you can start to annotate again.

Save

Save the annotated screen as a JPEG or BMP file.

Pen Tip Color

Select one color of the pen trace. The choices of Pen Tip Color are shown below:

Pen Tip Shape

Select the shape of the pen trace. The choices of Pen Tip Shape are shown below:

Background Color

Select the background color of the “Write Pad”. The choices of Background Color are shown below:

However, this icon will become gray and can not work, when you tap on the “Background Picture” Icon and are going to insert a picture.

Background Picture

Select one of your favorite pictures as the default background of the “Write Pad”. After entering the dialogue box of background picture as shown below, you can tap on the browse button or type in a file name with the complete path to select the picture you like as the default background picture.

The size of the background picture must fit the screen, or the part over the screen will be cut automatically.

When you tap on the this icon and are going to insert a picture, the “Background Color” Icon will become gray and can not work.

About

Display the version number and copyright notice of the PenPresenter program as shown below:

Page Up

Go back to the last screen picture.

Page Down

Show the next screen picture

Close

Quit the Annotate and Write Pad mode or close the PenPresenter program. When you tap on the “Close” Icon in the Annotate or Write Pad mode, the interface will be returned to the primary toolbar. In this status, the PenPresenter program will be closed when you tap on the “Close” Icon.