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Pdfpc – PDF Presenter Console

by X4 on 6/25/14, 12:19 PM with 7 comments

  • by imurray on 6/25/14, 12:27 PM

    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/ — 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 — Now I should try it out again.

    [1] http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ cross-platform python script. Debian/Ubuntu package available. Apparently works on Windows and Mac.

  • by wosc on 6/25/14, 2:02 PM

  • by robinhoodexe on 6/25/14, 1:10 PM

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