PDF-PRESENTER-CONSOLE(1)
NAME
Pdf-Presenter-Console - Presentation program for PDF files with offscreen 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
Timer
The timer is started if you are navigating away from the first page for
the first time. This feature is quite useful as you may want to show
the titlepage of your presentation while people are still entering the
room and the presentation hasn't really begun yet. If you want to start
over you can use the Home key which will make the presenter go back to
the first page and reset the timer as well.
At the moment the timer reaches the defined last-minutes value it will
change color to indicate your talk is nearing its end.
As soon as the timer reaches the zero mark (00:00:00) it will turn red
and count further down showing a negative time, to provide information
on how many minutes you are overtime.
AUTHOR
- Copyright 2009 Jakob Westhoff
http://westhoffswelt.de/projects/pdf_presenter_console.html