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NLargeNLarge is the screen magnification and annotation utility that I use for technical presentations. It magnifies the screen through a smooth animation, and allows you to pan and zoom around the magnified screen. You can annotate the magnified image using the mouse or a Tablet PC pen.
Today I added a few features to NLarge to respond to feature requests, and released version 1.1.

Here are the updated features:

  • Removed glitching from start of zoom (hooray!)
  • Added ability to change drawing pen colour and width
  • Added a countdown timer
  • Changed hotkeys from using Alt to Control to avoid conflict with Office 2007 default hotkeys
  • Moved settings from the registry to a Settings file
  • Updated solution to Visual Studio 2008 (leaving target .NET framework at 3.0)

NLarge is available for download from CodePlex. The code is all available there as well.

I noticed that since I last updated NLarge, its inspiration, ZoomIt, has been updated to provide a smoother zoom-in animation. However, ZoomIt still lacks NLarge’s smooth zoom-out animations, which is a shame, because I find the snap-out jarring and potentially disruptive.  I believe NLarge adds to the professionalism of my presentations by not potentially losing the context of what I’m presenting before or after I draw the audience’s attention to something via a zoom.

If ZoomIt could just zoom smoothly in and out, I’d retire NLarge, but for now, I hope you enjoy v1.1.

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3 Responses to “NLarge screen magnifier v1.1”

  1. Barry Gervin 26th Mar 2008 @ 1:17 am

    Cheers Rob – thanks for this – especially the countdown timer. It comes just in time for my first teach of my new LINQ class tomorrow. Thanks!

  2. Rob Burke 26th Mar 2008 @ 8:29 am

    Barry – my pleasure, good luck and enjoy the course this week; should be a fun one to teach!

  3. Kanwal 12th May 2008 @ 1:41 pm

    Thanks for the utility Rob…loving it already.

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