NetPen
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NetPen is whiteboard that multiple people can draw and manipulate simultaneously over the network. With NetPen you and your friends can create various drawings in the same time on the same board.
NetPen Features:
1. Any drawn element can be set to fade This is great to draw attention to something.
2. Use the Pointer to select and move items
3. It uses a simple client/server model, only one port is used
4. Any number of clients can connect to a host
5. Allows many pen colors and shape color fills
6. Has simple intuitive controls for lines, rectangles, circles, just click the button and use the shift, shift+ctrl, alt, and ctrl keys. The cursor indicates what will be drawn.
7. Push the shift key down to toggle elipses and rectangles into circles and squares.
8. Draw from a wide variety of textures using the
9. Draw text anywhere just by typing!
10. Edit & Spell check text by double-clicking text
11. Use ctrl+space at the beginning of text line to get a check box
12. Text can be in any font , just point the mouse and type
13. Users can add images either by pasting (CTRL+V or CTRL+INS) or Edit->Load
14. Images can be loaded either locally or from remote servers
15. The background color can be changed from Edit->Set Background Color
16. Objects can be brought to the front or sent to the back using Edit from the menubar or CTRL+F/CTRL+B
17. Images can be copied and pasted to the same page or a diffent page using CTRL+C and CTRL+V
18. Erase by using the Eraser or hit the delete key on selected objects
19. A grid can be toggled on or off using the Grid Control
20. Use the concentric circles button to pinpoint something
21. Escape clears all selections, CTRL+A selects everything
22. Intelligent use of Bandwidth! NetPen compresses any large transmissions.
23. "One click" resynchronization with
24. "Smart Mouse" drawing, also works with digital pens
25. Multiple pages provide an unlimited drawing area
26. Texture widths can be set via the mouse's scroll wheel or
27. Page zero is not saved or transmitted, it is an icon repository (use copy and paste elsewhere)
28. Negative pages are used as a staging area and are not transmitted, but they are saved.
29. Objects can be locked in place (indicated by the red border) using CTRL+L as a toggle.
30. A refresh button has been added on the toolbar just in case a client becomes out of sync with the server.
31. Double Clicking a .pen file will now open up a NetPen whiteboard on that file
32. Voting and Testing are now supported
33. The arrow buttons and mouse wheel can now alter selected objects
NetPen comes with two english dictionaries, a U.S. and a U.K. version. The dictionary used must be located in the lib subdirectory of the installation directory. The .ini file can be modified to change the filename by changing the dict keyword.
Requirements:
* Java Runtime Environment
The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this network utility software.