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ON  Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:27 AM       Amy B wrote:

Hi all - Thanks to those who made suggestions on how to give a
Powerpoint presentation to a sighted audience using Zoomtext
magnification. Several of you suggested what we ultimately found to
work, i.e., Virtual Network Computing (VNC). The software I'm using is
free from www.RealVNC.com.   I'm using the Personal free version. The
setup is as follows: You need two computers (they can be laptops)
connected to the network. One laptop is called "the server", and the
other is called "the viewer". The server has the Powerpoint presentation
running on it and it is connected to the projector. The viewer will be
used to control the server and has Zoomtext running on it. When the
connection between the two is established over the network, the desktop
of the server appears in a re-sizeable window on the viewer. From the
viewer laptop, the user can control everything on the server, i.e.,
start the presentation, click to advance slides, even draw on the
slides, and the audience sees the presentation. With zoomtext running on
the viewer, the user can see the same exact slides magnified. When
slides are advanced, there is a very slight (< 3 second) delay in the
appearance of the new slide on the viewer machine, but it's not a
problem. Hope this is relatively clear. Any comments or questions, let
me know.
Amy B



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