Draw On My Screen Ez For Mac

There’s something about being able to draw, annotate, and highlight a PDF file. It breeds a sense of power and productivity. What if you could do the same thing to whatever is on your Mac’s screen? That would save a few step, and make it easier to use the Mac’s screen as part of a dynamic, live presentation where the Mac acts like a digital white board.

All you need is. Live, Onscreen Highlights Highlight is one of those rare, inexpensive, and cleverly designed Mac tools that you know you need even before you try it out. Instead of using a graphic app to draw, or instead of using a special utility to annotate a web page, or instead of using a PDF file to highlight text, do it all right on the Mac’s screen.

That’s what Highlight does. It’s a highlighter, annotating, and drawing tool for the Mac’s screen. Whatever is on the Mac’s screen can be highlighted, or marked up using the Mac’s mouse or trackpad. If you need to save the screen image, simply save the whole screen as a graphic. And, yes, dear Mac folk, a picture is worth at least a few hundred words. Now, how is this better than simply editing a PDF file in Preview? Highlight saves a bunch of steps, and does something many of us who use our Macs in presentations really need.

The drawing, highlighting, and annotation is all done on the Mac’s screen live, in real time. On any app, on any web page, on any graphic or text. That makes it perfect for large screen presentations in classrooms and meetings. Highlight is priced at a ridiculously low 99-cents so it qualifies as an official Mac360 bargain app.

Mac OS X First install XCode from using the App Store. This is the development environment of Mac OS X, which includes in particular gcc and make. Then install Xquartz from, which provides the X11 drawing libraries, necessary for EZ-Draw to work. Download the file with your web browser, save the file; using the Finder, unpack it as EZ-Draw-1.2.tar, next as folder EZ-Draw-1.2, then move this folder into your home directory. Note: if your Finder is not able to unpack, open a terminal and type this: tar xvfz Downloads/EZ-Draw-1.2.tgz Next type in a terminal: cd EZ-Draw-1.2 make -j all Note: If you get an error at compile time, for instance. Other Unices Download the file with your web browser, save the file, then move it into your home directory using the file manager.

Next, type in the terminal: gunzip EZ-Draw-1.2.tgz tar xvf EZ-Draw-1.2.tar cd EZ-Draw-1.2 make all Note: in case of errors at compile time, make sure you have on your system:. bash. gcc and development files.h. make (GNU version).

X11 development version: check for Xlib.h (probably in /usr/include/X11), for libX11.so (probably in /usr/X11R6/lib or /usr/lib), and for libXext.so (same place). To check all of this you can use the script x11-paths.sh that comes with EZ-Draw; this script explores the system directories and give you some informations. Simply type this in the terminal and wait. Windows Download the file with your web browser and save the file. Next, uncompress the file, for example with the free software 7-Zip:.

get 7-Zip on then install it;. in the file manager, right-click on EZ-Draw-1.2.tgz, menu 7-Zip ‣ Extract here then again on EZ-Draw-1.2.tar. You can then leave this folder on the desktop, or drag it in “My Documents” for example. Install MinGW (“Minimal GNU for Windows”) to get gcc and GNU make:. go to:;.

click on “Download tdm-gcc-xxx.ex”, wait, then click on “Save file”. Double-click on the file, then click on “Run”: the installation window appears. Click on “Create”, then “MinGW/TDM (32-bit)”, “Next”. Leave “Installation Directory” as c: MinGW32, click on “Next”. Select a mirror, for example “Europe - France Free France”, then “Next”. Select the installation “TDM-GCC Recommended, C/C” then click on “Install”. When the installation is “Completed successfully”, click “Next” then “Finish”.

If a terminal was open, close it now. Open a new terminal:. On Windows 8, bring up the sidebar to the right of the screen, click on “Search”, then “Command Prompt”;. On Windows 7 or earlier versions, click on Start ‣ All programs ‣ Accessories ‣ Command Prompt. Still in your terminal, go into the directory EZ-Draw-1.2 by typing: cd c: realpath EZ-Draw-1.2 replacing c: realpath EZ-Draw-1.2 by the actual path.

To know, just drag the folder icon EZ-Draw-1.2 in the terminal. Compile by typing. Cygwin You can install EZ-Draw in two ways:. By using the native Windows libraries. You just have to follow the instructions in section. The key point is to not use the Cygwin terminal, but the Windows terminal (“Command Prompt” or cmd). By using the Unix libraries of Cygwin.

It is a little more complicated and longer; here are the steps to follow. If Cygwin is not already installed on your computer, this is time to do it. Go on then download the “setup” program setup-x86.exe (on Windows 32-bit) or setup-x8664.exe (64-bit).

Follow the instructions; you can keep all the default settings. The setup will download all the basic packages and install them (this may take hours depending on your connexion. But once for all). We must now install some additional packages for EZ-Draw. Restart the Cygwin setup then, after the usual setup steps, select the following packages for installation:. Devel ‣ gcc-core.

Devel ‣ make. Editors ‣ nedit. Libs ‣ libX11-devel. X11 ‣ libXext-devel. X11 ‣ xorg-server. X11 ‣ xinit. X11 ‣ xterm.

X11 ‣ font-sony-misc Open the Cygwin terminal (there is an icon on the desktop) then type. Startxwin & This starts the X11 server (that is to say, the graphic mode of Unix) and open a new terminal “XWin”. All the next commands will have to be typed in this terminal. Note: if startxwin displays Another X server instance is running on display:0, type ps, get the number at the beginning of the line where stands /usr/bin/XWin, then type kill by replacing by the number; you can finally type again startxwin & Download the file with your web browser, save the file, then move it into your Cygwin home directory using the file manager. This directory is like to be c: cygwin32 home or c: cygwin64 home.

Type ls in the XWin terminal to check if you actually have the file EZ-Draw-1.2.tgz in your Cygwin home directory. Type next: tar xvfz EZ-Draw-1.2.tgz cd EZ-Draw-1.2 We can now compile EZ-Draw: type. Tested Environments Tested on:.

Linux Debian and Ubuntu on i86 (intel 32 bits). Linux Ubuntu on x8664 (intel Xeon/AMD, 64 bits). Linux Raspbian on Raspberry Pi. Linux Xandros on Eee-PC. Linux Fedora 20 on x8664 with Virtualbox.

MacOS X 10.9, 6, 5, 4 on Mac (intel 32 bits). Solaris on Sun. Windows XP on PC and on VirtualBox. Windows Vista 64 bits with MinGW 32 bits.

Draw On The Screen Tool

Windows 7 32 bits on PC and on VirtualBox. Windows 8 32 bits on Virtualbox. Windows 8.1 64 bits with MinGW 32/64, on PC and on Virtualbox. Cygwin 64 bits 1.7.28 on Windows 8.1 64 bits with Virtualbox.