Help

The magicPresenter is a free, lightweight app for the iPad that allows to give presentations using pdf slide sets and offers helpful features for a most convincing presentation you might miss when using Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple’s Keynote.

Here you will find important information on using the app. We always keep our web pages up to date and update our help according to the questions we receive from users and make adjustments to the current version of our software.

Slide decks view

magicPresenter allows to import pdf slides in landscape format using a file picker, by using the share functionality of other apps or by copying a pdf-file to the on my iPad/magicPresenter folder. A preview (first slide) of all available slide decks is shown in the initial view of magicPresenter. There you can

• open a file picker to import a pdf slide deck ;
• refresh the overview ;
• change the overview’s sorting criteria ;
• open a context menu to manage the files;
• or start a presentation by tapping on a slide’s preview.

The context menu allows to delete a slide deck or export its annotations (handwriting, text). The exported files can be found in the folder on my iPad/magicPresenter/Exports.

Presentation view

The presentation view holds the following information and tools:

• Presentation duration (start , pause , refresh ) and clock;
• to hide/show presenter view on connected projector and to start screen sharing on a newly connected device;
• select tool (pointer , hand writing , magic ink , clear current writing );
• scroll vertically by two fingers pan gesture — below every slide our app offers a huge area where you can write and paint both, with normal as well as magic ink;
• navigate slides (previous or next) and overview over entire set (jump to slide by tap);
• open full screen mode  with large writing surface (tap < Presentation to return to normal);
• type or dictate textual notes using hardware or virtual keyboard.

Hyperlinks: For an embedded hyperlink, select the pointer tool and use a long press gesture (at least 1 second) on the link to open it. Since it should be possible to write on the link’s text, e.g., highlight it using a marker, it cannot be opened while using pen or magic ink.

Hint: If you are using a hardware keyboard to insert textual notes, press <control> together with the dot ( . ) button to release the focus from the text field.

Missing any function in our app? Below you find suggestions made by other users of how to extend magicPresenter’s feature set. If your idea is not listed yet, please don’t hesitate to leave a request. Maybe your suggestion finds its way into a forthcoming release.