Free autocue/teleprompter software

For reading news at a local television station, I developed some teleprompter software in Java.
The autocue software compatible with Apple iMac, Linux en Windows.

Voor het lezen van nieuws bij het lokale televisiestation heb ik autocuesoftware geschreven in Java, die u hier gratis kunt downloaden.
De software werkt onder Mac, Linux en Windows

Features

  • Very easy to use
  • Free software
  • Easier to control than an iPad application
  • Beautiful designed software (except on Windows, sorry guys)
  • Software in English
  • Designed from a users point of view
  • Support for text styles: bold, underline, italic and color
  • Tested and approved in a professional environment
  • Can be used on many Operating Systems: Mac, Windows, Linux, Unix
  • Low system requirements
  • Simple text editor, which uses .txt files. you can open, change and save text files
  • Adjustable cuespeed, with shortcut buttons and manual finetuning in pixels per second
  • Use the scrollwheel to scroll in your teleprompter text
  • Automatic end-of-autocue text
  • Arrow displays current line

What`s new ?

version 0.9 - beta - April 24th 2011

-bugfix: teleprompter window: the text scrolled the wrong direction when using the mousewheel
-feature: linewrap in texteditor
-feature: visual styles for text in the teleprompter: bold, italic, underlined and color
-change: standard scroll speed is 60 pixels per second
-change: standard font for teleprompter is now Verdana 60px (before Lucida 50px)
-feature: teleprompter states (speed, size, mirror) set program wide, a new teleprompter-screen is opened with the same settings as the previous
-bugfix: CMD-Q on Mac closed the application without asking to save

System requirements

These are the minimum system requirements:
  • Java installed (download Java)
  • screen resolution 1024x768
  • 750 MHZ processor or better
  • 256 MB memory or more

Installation instructions

How to install the software:
  • Make sure that Java is installed on your computer. If it`s not download it here for free
  • Download the software on the bottom of this page
  • Double click on the file `autocue.jar` (if it hasn`t opened yet), the program will run*

* note for Linux users:
you may have to set the executable bit (right mouse click, properties, permissions, check: allow executing file as program).
If program doesn`t open by double clicking the icon: right mouse click, execute as Java-file

Terms and conditions

This software is free for non-commercial use.
No warranty or support of any kind!

Download

If you agree with the terms and conditions:
Download JTeleprompter