App: E-Pointer
Developer: 龙 金
Genres: Utilities, Productivity

E-Pointer is a virtual pointer tool that can draw and mark arbitrarily on the screen. It can be used for teaching annotation, photo marking, graphic annotation, stock market analysis and so on. It supports unlimited undo, and can save the drawn content as a picture. Support shortcut key manipulation and custom shortcut keys.

## Currently supported drawing tools

The shortcut keys are in brackets. Note that the shortcut keys are only activated after entering the drawing mode. You can also modify the shortcut keys for almost all operations (even common colors) in the Preferences window.

- Brush (B): Used to draw free-form lines.
- Line (N): Used to draw straight lines. Holding down the shift key to draw a horizontal or vertical line (Note, many tools support this operation).
- Arrow Line (A): Used to draw a straight line with a single arrow. 
- Duo-Arrow Line (A): Used to draw a straight line with double arrows. 
- Rectangle (M): Used to draw right-angled rectangles. Holding down the shift key to draw a right-angled square.
- Rounded Rectangle (M): Used to draw a rounded rectangle.
- Ellipse (L): Used to draw an ellipse. Holding down the shift key to draw a circle.
- Solid Rectangle (Command+M): Used to draw a solid right-angled rectangle.
- Solid Rounded Rectangle (Command+M): Used to draw a solid rounded rectangle.
- Solid Ellipse (Command+L): Used to draw a solid ellipse.
- Text (T): Enter and draw text to the screen.
- Indicator arrow (W): used to draw an indicator arrow.
- Rectangular spotlight (P): Used to draw a square spotlight. A rectangular spotlight can highlight a wide range of content, especially large paragraph of text.
- Ellipse spotlight (P): Used to draw a circular spotlight effect. Circular spotlight can highlight small areas, especially graphic patterns.
- Icon tool (G): Currently, it includes Checkmark and Xmark, which are preset, fixed pattern graphics that are suitable for specific purposes based on the meaning of the icon.
- Selection Tool (V): Select and move drawn graphics, can also be used to edit existing text.
- Screenshot (Shift+Command+S): Take a screenshot of the selected area.
- Eraser (E, delete): Used to delete graphics.

The shortcut keys of some tools are the same, such as Arrow line and Duo-Arrow line. They belong to the same tool group, and the shortcut keys represent the tool group. When the tool group is selected, the tools in the same tool group can be accessed in turn through the tab key.

For detailed help, please start the app and click the brush icon on the menu bar before entering the drawing mode, open the help document to view from the pop-up menu.

## Currently supported effects

Effects refer to one or more effects that can be added to a graphic.

- Shadow: set the drawing shadow or add / remove the shadow to / from the selected graphic.
- Dashed line: make lines become dashed lines. It is effective for line drawing tools, such as pencil, line, arrow line, rectangle, ellipse etc.
- Stroke: set the drawing stroke or add / remove the stroke to / from the selected graphic.
- Translucent effect: set the transparency of the drawing color or add / remove the transparency to / from the selected graphic.

Effects can be enabled exclusively: when you hold down the option key and click an effect, you can cancel all other effects and only enable the currently selected effect.

## In app purchase

Free trial for 5 days from the first download (no subscription required). After the trial expires, some drawing tools will be disabled and will be released after purchasing or subscribing to the full version.

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Release notes:
+ Optimization: When the program is restarted, the drawing tool, color, size, effects, etc. will automatically revert to the state they were in when the program was last exited.
+ Optimization: The toolbar mouse following feature is disabled by default. If there are multiple screens, it is necessary to have the toolbar automatically switch between them with the mouse. You can check the option "Toolbar follows mouse to switch to the screen" in the settings window.
+ Optimize other minor issues.