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basically, I just want to draw eyes to a particular part of the slide. currently, when the slide dims, I don't like how the entire slide has to be dimmed since it makes other important information hard to read.
if I had the time, I'd probably try designing a plug-in for keynote which would track the current slide and offer a virtual mouse that supported arbitrary (HTML image map arbitrary) regions that would display normally when the virtual mouse was within them and dimmed otherwise.
that way, you could get the TV effect where they highlight a sentence, or two, in a court document; so the highlighting would be based on the position of the virtual mouse instead of a frame within an animation within a slide show.
of course, the ultimate product would allow chrome to be shown too so when the virtual mouse was within a certain bounding box, arrows (custom chrome) would point to special content.
anyway, that's what was going through my head.
I bought a laser pointer since my presentation is next week so I'll be holding the apple remote and the laser pointer.
Last edited: 06.10.2008 19:55:32