6 ms·

Pdfpc – PDF Presenter Console

33 points by X4 12y ago

imurray 12y ago
This PDF presenting package seems neat. I sometimes print a contact sheet of slides to help me see where I'm going, but having the next slide on screen would be nice. At the moment I use "impressive" [1], which has proved rock solid over the last ~6 years. I can hit tab and see thumbnails of all my slides, and jump to them with one click. I also have a wrapper that lets me go to slide by number: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/impressive/ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/impressive/ — These features are good for long seminars and tutorial lectures, where what I deliver is flexible and I have numbered bonus slides anticipating questions. It seems that PDF-PC has added an overview mode and custom keybindings since the last time I looked at it. Ah, as a fork of the original https://github.com/jakobwesthoff/Pdf-Presenter-Console https://github.com/jakobwesthoff/Pdf-Presenter-Console — Now I should try it out again. [1] http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ cross-platform python script. Debian/Ubuntu package available. Apparently works on Windows and Mac.
- eli 12y ago
  As an aside, the "presenter" view of Powerpoint shows you the next slide, your notes, a timer. It can show you how long you've been on a slide vs how long you were on it in a previous run-through. I'm not exactly a die hard PowerPoint fan, but they've got the "presenting a deck of slides" thing pretty nailed down.
- lucashn 12y ago
  I've just tested qpdfpresenter [1], and it seems to work fine too (Qt implementation). [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/qpdfpresenter http://sourceforge.net/projects/qpdfpresenter
robinhoodexe 12y ago
Any plans for OS X support? I'd love to use this with Beamer.
- chriseidhof 12y ago
  Shameless plug: I make Deckset: http://www.decksetapp.com http://www.decksetapp.com We've seen a lot of people convert from Beamer to Deckset. With our app, you write Markdown and we generate a presentation for you. Including presentation mode and speaker notes.
  - robinhoodexe 12y ago
    I've looked at Deckset and Markdown, but I really like LaTeX, especially when typesetting equations and using TikZ to make figures.
wosc 12y ago
See also https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~kldenker/gl_presenter/ https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~kldenker/gl_presenter/

33 points by X4 12y ago

This PDF presenting package seems neat. I sometimes print a contact sheet of slides to help me see where I'm going, but having the next slide on screen would be nice. At the moment I use "impressive" [1], which has proved rock solid over the last ~6 years. I can hit tab and see thumbnails of all my slides, and jump to them with one click. I also have a wrapper that lets me go to slide by number: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/impressive/ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/impressive/ — These features are good for long seminars and tutorial lectures, where what I deliver is flexible and I have numbered bonus slides anticipating questions. It seems that PDF-PC has added an overview mode and custom keybindings since the last time I looked at it. Ah, as a fork of the original https://github.com/jakobwesthoff/Pdf-Presenter-Console https://github.com/jakobwesthoff/Pdf-Presenter-Console — Now I should try it out again. [1] http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ cross-platform python script. Debian/Ubuntu package available. Apparently works on Windows and Mac.

eli 12y ago
As an aside, the "presenter" view of Powerpoint shows you the next slide, your notes, a timer. It can show you how long you've been on a slide vs how long you were on it in a previous run-through. I'm not exactly a die hard PowerPoint fan, but they've got the "presenting a deck of slides" thing pretty nailed down.
lucashn 12y ago
I've just tested qpdfpresenter [1], and it seems to work fine too (Qt implementation). [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/qpdfpresenter http://sourceforge.net/projects/qpdfpresenter

robinhoodexe 12y ago

Any plans for OS X support? I'd love to use this with Beamer.

chriseidhof 12y ago
Shameless plug: I make Deckset: http://www.decksetapp.com http://www.decksetapp.com We've seen a lot of people convert from Beamer to Deckset. With our app, you write Markdown and we generate a presentation for you. Including presentation mode and speaker notes.
- robinhoodexe 12y ago
  I've looked at Deckset and Markdown, but I really like LaTeX, especially when typesetting equations and using TikZ to make figures.

wosc 12y ago

See also https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~kldenker/gl_presenter/ https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~kldenker/gl_presenter/