OK Amy,

Another idea:  can you use Terminal Services on both laptops?
Terminal Services allows you to remotely control one PC from another,
but the good part is that the remote PC, i.e. the one you would use
for the presentation, would have ZoomText on it and the other laptop
would not.  Thus you can control the presentation from your laptop,
the audience sees the "standard" powerpoint slides, but you see the
magnified slides.  Since you're at a college,
get your IT people to set up Terminal Services on both laptops for you
so you can try this idea out, it might actually work just fine.

Kind regards,
-Chris O

On Apr 7, 2005 10:56 AM, Janet Russeau <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>  Hi Amy,
>
>  Would it be feasible to print out the slides (1 per page) and read from
> that?
>
>  If not, I know that there are wireless, hand-held mice whose function is
> mainly for use with PowerPoint presentations. Perhaps something like this
> might work if you had 1 for each laptop? Or maybe you might be able to
> control both laptops with the 1 device?
>
>  I would agree with Chris in suggesting you check with your local computer
> hardware/software store. They should have more information on these wireless
> devices.
>
>  Sincerely,
>  Janet Russeau
>
>
>  At 04:11 PM 4/6/2005, you wrote:
>
> Hi all - I'm desperate to find a solution to this problem. Next week I'm
> giving a long (hour) power point presentation to a sighted audience. I have
> some vision, but I usually can't see the details on the projection screen as
> well as I need to. So I need to be able to view a magnified version of the
> slide show (using zoom text) while I project an unmagnified view. This is
> not possible with a single laptop running zoom text, since the video output
> is magnified just like what's on the screen. My current solution is to run
> the slide show on two laptops, one connected to the projector that is
> showing a normal slide show, and one on a separate laptop that is running
> zoomtext. I sit in front of the latter so I can see the details that I need
> to describe to the audience. The problem is that this is rather clumsy since
> I have to click two different mice to advance the slides and animate any
> objects like arrows etc (which I like to add since I can't point well to
> objects on the projection screen). A computer (not typically a laptop) with
> a dual head video card might work, although AI Squared reports that
> inconsistent results are usually obtained, sometimes both outputs are
> magnified, sometimes only one. Any ideas?
>  Thanks in advance.
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