Frequently Asked Questions

The short answer is "No, Ultimate Pen does not currently work on top of Keynote presentations."

During a presentation, Keynote takes over the entire screen using low level OpenGL calls. This locks out an entire class of applications that want to draw anything on screen as helpers or utilities including accessibility applications, alternate input managers, and apps like Ultimate Pen. Apple Computer Inc. is aware of this issue and should be making a change to the operating system and Keynote in the future to allow this class of applications to work with compliant full-screen apps. When the operating system supports it, we'll make any changes needed to Ultimate Pen to allow it to work properly in these situations.

There are other presentation applications available that do not lock out other apps, and Ultimate Pen does work with those.

Unfortunately, PowerPoint drops out of presentation mode when any other application is brought to the front. This makes it impossible for Ultimate Pen to allow drawing on screen during a PowerPoint presentation. You can activate Ultimate Pen's Click-Through mode to have your drawing visible on top of a PowerPoint presentation.

There are other presentation applications available that stay in presentation mode when Ultimate Pen comes to the front, and Ultimate Pen does work with those.

On 10.3 and later, Ultimate Pen works great on top of classic Mac OS applications. On 10.2.x, classic Mac OS applications sometimes fail to redraw their windows properly when Ultimate Pen is above them. If you want to use Ultimate Pen on top of classic Mac OS apps, we highly recommend updating to Mac OS 10.3 or later.

No. Ultimate Pen only works on Apple's Mac OS X v10.2 and later. We do not have a Palm, Linux, or Windows version, and have no plans to create them at this time.