Allow casting my drawing to chromecast
this would make this software the ULTIMATE graphic facilitation tool. a total game changer! Imagine seeing a cast icon at the top of the screen. once pressed your television mirrors your drawing surface. meeting becomes interactive. upon completion, export a pdf to all who were present. awesome. Please make this happen.
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Dennis Toll commented
Trying to bump up the issue. Pixelated PDF's are still a problem when casting from my Samsung Pro Chromebook, AND from my Acer Chromebox. I have not found a chromebook that does not have this issue. There are plenty of other PDF markup apps that do not suffer from this issue. I just like the latency and feel of Squid so much, I hate to abandon it for another. But the more I use chromecasting to teach, I feel I must.
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Dennis Toll commented
Any update on the issue of pixelated images in chromecast? It is improved, a little I think, but still pixelated when I cast a document from Squid.
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Dennis Toll commented
@Andrew - would it help to use the 4K version of the Chromecast? I am using the standard, third generation Chromecast at 1080p HD, and was not sure if it was worth spending $70 to try the 4K version. Thanks for the help. Other than this issue, I love the app.
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Dennis Toll commented
@Andrew - yes, I am having the problem on a Samsung Pro Chromebook
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@Dennis What you're experiencing is actually something different. There is a known issue with casting from Android apps on certain Chromebooks. So far the only devices we've identified with the issue are the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate. We've reported the issue to Google and they're looking into it. Please let us know if you're experiencing this issue on a different Chromebook.
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Dennis Toll commented
I can cast a tab from my Chromebook, open Google Keep in the tab, open a drawing, and use it like a whiteboard. Looks great on the screen, so something about Google's casting framework works in that case. Wish it would work as well in squid.
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Dennis Toll commented
Yes, it is an awesome feature. But here it is, 2019, and my Squid documents are still pixilated and very low resolution when chromecast to TV. Why?
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@Ethan We've tested with a Chromecast Ultra on a 4k TV and have seen the same result. We've tried to determine if there's a way to cast at a higher resolution, but at this time it appears we're stuck with the resolution that's provided by Google's casting framework (which is not 4k).
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Ethan commented
I have a 4k google chromecast ultra on a 4k tv and when I cast squid to it it looks 480 resolution. drawings look grainy, low definition and oversized. If I change the zoom, details start disappearing. How can improve the appearance, i.e. get higher resolution when casting squid?
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There isn't exactly a "presentation mode" anymore. We didn't want to use Google's terminology of "casting" originally, since we didn't have official Chromecast support. But now that we do, the feature is termed "casting and presenting". Essentially, you cast to a device, then present a note. However, the feature doesn't *only* support Chromecast, it still works with any kind of secondary display (wired or wireless).
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Roland commented
Great thanks. Is there still a good reason to use presentation mode or has this effectively become deprecated because of Chromecast support?
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Roland: Yes, we now have native support for Chromecast in Squid. This was added some time ago, but apparently I forgot to update this idea!
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Roland commented
Is Squid (Android) now fully supported on Chromecast and/or have the aforementioned limitations of presentation mode been overcome? It would be my only use case for Chromecast but a big one so I'd really like to know.
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Adam commented
This is great for me, but I am anxious to get full support as the Mirror Screen feature seems to drop periodically and I have to go through two apps to reconnect.
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Christian Sass commented
since Samsung has refused to update the 10.1 tablet it would be great to have native Gaston support in your application rather than require and the OS upgrade in order to see this
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Khoi Minh Vo and Ibrahim Awwal: I believe the issue you are describing is fixed in the latest update (1.2.1.0). Please email support@papyrusapp.com if this is not the case so we can figure out what's going on. Thanks!
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Ibrahim Awwal commented
I'm having the same issue as Khoi Minh Vo, I can't erase anything at all while in Presentation mode, and drawings stick around across pages. This is a bit frustrating because it renders the app largely non-functional, and I can't disable the presentation mode when I'm casting my screen. I'd be happy to just cast the screen as it's shown but I can't since Papyrus automatically goes into this mode.
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Drew Perkins commented
I'm not seeing the "cast" button on my Galaxy Note 10.1. Where should I be looking?
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Khoi Minh Vo commented
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but I've been having trouble finding much information about presentation mode for Papyrus online. When I use it, I can draw/annotate PDFs but the eraser and undo feature don't work. Anything I draw or write just stays on the presentation, even if I switch pages. So the annotation isn't made on the page, but "above" the actual page. Is this an intended feature or a glitch? Is there anything I can do to fix it?
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Michael Collins commented
Amaze balls! !!! I just bought this for my class room!!