Last edited: 02.10.2008 19:16:46 

What you are looking for is currently not supported. It'd be really 
trivial to implement, but I don't currently see the use in it as 
instead of highlighting, it'd mean to cover the region that a 
presenter wants to highlight.

I'm still open to the idea, though. How would you put such a feature 
to use?

Best regards, 
Felix Schwarz 

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 

This functionality is on the todo list.

Best regards, 
Felix Schwarz