SlideDraw Setup Guide

SlideDraw Setup Guide

We have put together a few tested configuration that we have seen in production.On touch screens, in short, they are tricky in macOS. So, SlideDraw uses the basic macOS "mouse events" for drawing. This means standard single mouse down, click and movements. Different touch screen devices may present other forms of input and may require drivers provided by other manufacturers for additional costs.

We highly recommend using an display specifically for the Control Panel. You can easily add a "dummy" display to your Mac with a headless dongle for less than $10. This will create an additional virtual display for your Mac and allow the GPU (graphics) to work more efficiently. Then using a screen sharing or remote desktop client, you can remotely control and utilize this additional display.
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‍Amazon: HDMI Headless Adaptor

For any questions or help, please feel free to shoot us a note.

Cursor size change via and CONTROL PANEL for the next drawing stroke.
Several preset standard colors to draw with.
UNDO button to remove past drawing strokes.
CLEAR button to remove all the drawing strokes form your current image.
Simply add in a white or black canvas with the CANVAS+ buttons.
Want to just highlight? Use the highlight mode button. There is even a separate stroke size just for nightlight mode as well.
Strokes are saved with each image so when you advance or return to that slide, they are right where you left them!
With USE TOUCH NAVIGATION, you an easily slide left or right with your finder to change slides.
Option to make the DRAWING WINDOW be in true full screen mode. Hiding the macOS dock and other things that could popup.
Display sleep is disabled while the app is open. So no more screens going to sleep in the middle of your presentation.
Move your mouse to the middle of the DRAWING WINDOW with a touch of a button in the CONTROL PANEL.
Option to HIDE MOUSE CURSOR on the DRAWING WINDOW ***.
Reorder support for a single slide.
Ability to delete a single slide or quickly go to it on the CONTROL PANEL.
Quicklook the selected slide in the CONTROL PANEL.
Many different hot keys as described in the menu bar and below in our hotkeys section.
Separate HIGHLIGHT MODE stroke size and opacity controls in the CONTROL PANEL.
When drawing tools are disable, you can use “touch-based” navigation. Simply dragging your finger left or right to changes slides.

Touch Screen Setup

**2019/20 M1 MacMini does not support more than two outputs.

Tested Touch Screens:

Samsung QB75N-W Commercial 4K UHD Touch Display. (Required Helper Driver)

Elo 5501L 55″ Interactive Digital Signage. (Required Helper Driver)

Helper Touch Driver

In some cases, you may require additional drivers to have macOS work with touch screen displays.

Touch Base makes a UPDD macOS driver to help with touch screen support for more fine controls and hiding cursors above what SlideDraw is able to do.

iPad Setup

macOS Catalina 10.15+ & iPadOS 13.1+ with Apple Pencil
Required for Apple Sidecar