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pdf_presenter_console

NAME

Pdf-Presenter-Console - Presentation program for PDF files with off-screen notes

SYNOPSIS

pdf_presenter_console [OPTION...] <pdf-file>

DESCRIPTION

The Pdf Presenter Console (PPC) is a GTK based presentation viewer application which uses Keynote like multi-monitor output to provide meta information to the speaker during the presentation. It is able to show a normal presentation window on one screen, while showing a more sophisticated overview on the other one providing information like a picture of the next slide, as well as the left over time till the end of the presentation. The input files processed by PPC are PDF documents, which can be created using nearly any of today's presentation software.

OPTIONS

Help Options:

-h, --help

Show help options

Application Options:

-d, --duration=N

Duration in minutes of the presentation used for timer display. (Default 45 minutes)

-l, --last-minutes=N

Time in minutes, from which on the timer changes its color. (Default 5 minutes)

-u, --current-size=N

Percentage of the presenter screen to be used for the current slide. (Default 60)

-s, --switch-screens

Switch the presentation and the presenter screen.

-c, --disable-cache

Disable caching and pre-rendering of slides to save memory at the cost of speed.

CACHING

To allow fast changes between the different slides of the presentation the pdf pages are prerendered to memory. The small white line on the bottom of the presenter screen indicates how many percent of the slides have been pre-rendered already. During the initial rendering phase this will slow-down slide changes, as a lot of cpu power is used for the rendering process in the background. After the cache is fully primed however the changing of slides should be much faster as with normal pdf viewers.

As the prerendering takes a lot of memory it can be disabled using the --disable-cache switch on cost of speed.

Keybindings

During the presentation the following key strokes are detected and interpreted:

Left cursor key / Page up

Go back one slide

Right cursor key / Page down / Return / Space

Go forward one slide

Home

Go back to the first slide and reset the timer

Escape / q /Alt+F4

Quit the presentation viewer

AUTHOR

Copyright 2009 Jakob Westhoff
http://westhoffswelt.de/projects/pdf_presenter_console.html