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Stage Hand: Slide View
In earlier posts, I talked about the difficulties of offering both a resizeable highlighter and Slide View navigation, and the limitations Keynote places on fetching slide images, and how this impacts Slide View.
Well, Stage Hand 1.4 is currently undergoing testing, and it features both a resizable highlighter and Slide View navigation — and yes, even both at the same time!
Things To Do
The blog's been a bit Stage Hand-heavy recently, so here's something different.
In a few recent post, I've mentioned the to-do list. The list in question is kept in Things, by Cultured Code, which, as well as having a pleasingly vague name, has recently jumped in usefulness because they've brought out an iPhone version that syncs to the desktop. This Is A Good Thing1.
Stage Hand: Updates & Expectations
First of all, we expect to have a new update out soon, which will offer a few small bugfixes, and the "blank out screen" feature that a number of people have asked for.
But I'm going to spend most of this post talking about the number-one feature request: Changing slides in "slide view"/"highlighter" mode.
A lot of people ask for this. Seriously. It's the most-often asked-for thing in reviews, posted to our mailing list or asked about in tech support emails. So, obviously, it's at the top of the to-do list, and we want to add it as soon as possible.
Stage Hand: A Tip and an Update
There's a new update of Stage Manager availble, version 1.3.2. This is the "advance guard" for a forthcoming Stage Hand update. Between them, they feature a couple of bug fixes, plus our first stab at the ability to resize the highlighter using two-finger "pinch" gestures.
This is an experimental feature, and for reasons mentioned previously the user interface might change. Because of this, it's switched off by default — you'll need to explicitly enable it from the Stage Hand Settings.