GL-Presenter

A multi-screen OpenGL PDF-Presenter. It automatically uses display 0 as presenter screen and display 1 as beamer screen. If only one display is available, the presenter screen is shown.

Usage

gl-presenter [OPTION] presentation.pdf

Options

  -a TIME,  --animation-duration=TIME   Set animation duration to TIME milliseconds.
  -c,       --config                    Show configuration dialog.
  -e,       --edit                      Show editor.
  -h,       --help                      Display this help and exit.
  -l LINES, --comment-lines=LINES       Set number of LINES for comments.

Note, that currently some of these options are not working.

Features

• multi-display-support
• preview of next two slides
• fade animation
• clock and timer
• selection mode
• notes
• bookmarks

Keys

Use the usual keys and mouse buttons for switching slides.
Tab	switch to slide selection
Z	switch to zoom mode
F	zoom to full page
H	fit page horizontally
V	fit page vertically
T	switch to 2-page mode
B	blank out
R	reset timer
?	mouse area help
M	re-enable mouse after command execution
Shift+X	swap screens
Shift+Esc,Shift+Q
	quit/close
F1-F4	execute predefined command
1-0	call bookmark
Ctrl+1	save bookmark

In slide selection:
arrow keys, mouse	move slide cursor
Esc, Tab, RMB		back to presenter mode
Enter, Return, LMB	select slide

Build

qmake
make

Dependencies

• Qt >=5.2
• glu
• poppler-qt5
• dejavu (font)

(Though the code is still compatible with Qt 4.)

Debian build dependencies

• libqt5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libglu-dev libpoppler-qt5-dev

Windows build dependencies

Install Poppler (bin + dev) using the KDE for Windows installer.

Miscellaneous

i3 config (tiling window manager):

for_window [class="Gl_presenter"] floating enable

Notes

Look at sample file in samples/notes_sample.pdf.glp Filename must contain the complete PDF filename.

Originator

Copyright (C) 2010 Klaus Denker <[email protected]>