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dspdfviewer - Dual-Screen PDF Viewer
dspdfviewer [options] [filename]
dspdfviewer is intended for presentations created with the latex-beamer class, specifically documents created with the show notes on second screen=right option.
Its purpose is to display the left half of a page on the audience's screen (which will most commonly be a projector) and the right half on your "private" screen (think: the notebook you carried to the presentation site). The basic idea is that you will display personal notes and information to help you with your presentation on your personal screen, while the audience sees only the PDF they are supposed to see.
On the secondary screen you will see three clocks: A "wall clock", a "presentation" clock and a "slide" clock.
The wall clock in the bottom left corner that display current time of day, the presentation clock (labeled "Total") counts the time you spent since you started the presentation, and the "slide" counter (bottom right) displays the time you spent on the current slide.
The clocks don't start the second you launch the program, the idea behind that behaviour is that many people have a "title" slide active long before the audience even arrives.
Once you use the next/previous slide commands, the clock starts. If you want to start the clock, but still display the title slide, just press "previous" (for example, Up Arrow or Right Mouse Button) on the title slide.
If you want to reset the clocks to zero, press the "Home" button on the keybord.
The exact behaviour of dspdfviewer is configurable using command-line parameters.
Unless otherwise noted, all command-line options can be written in a configuration file. See the FILES section for the location.
For the command-line parameters, this program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ('-'). A summary of options is included below.
If you specify those in a configuration file, write one option per line, use the long version without the two leading dashes, followed by an equals sign and the desired value.
For example, bottom-pane-height=20 is a valid configuration line.
If an option is specified in both the configuration file and the command-line, the command-line value takes precedence.
Note for options of type <bool>: They take true, false, 0 or 1 as arguments. For example, --use-second-screen false can be expressed as --use-second-screen 0 or shortened to -u0.
The secondary screen still contains timers and thumbnails to help you with your presentation, unless you disable them using the options below.
The default is true.
If you only have one screen, but still want to use the cache features, you can set this option to false. If the window ends up on the wrong display, you can still use the switch command (see below).
What comes out on the primary screen depends on whether you use the -f Option: -u0 -f results in a simple full-screen PDF viewer, while -u0 without -f still splits the page in half and outputs only the left frame.
The default is true.
While it is normally desired to have clickable hyperlinks, if you cannot control the position of your pointer (if your remote control has only left-click and right-click) it might be safer to disable hyperlinks.
Note: If you set this to zero, you will not get a thumbnail for the previous page rendered before you have visited it.
Note: If you set this to zero, you will not get a thumbnail for the next page rendered before you have visited it.
CAVEAT: It is currently not verified that this memory is enough to hold all prerendered pages. If you make the cache too small to hold the prerendered pages, it will start dropping the first rendered (adjacent to the current page), resulting in very poor performance. If in doubt, set a larger cache or a lower prerender amount.
Default value 20.
This is considered an experimental feature and disabled by default. Read the runtimeconfiguration.cpp source code for more info.
You can use the following controls while dspdfviewer is running.
Note that mouse-clicks are subject to pointer position if the hyperlink support is enabled. If your mouse cursor changes to a hand, it will follow the link you are hovering on a click.
Additional keyboard aliases: Down, Right, Return, Enter, N, F
Additional keyboard aliases: Up, Left, P
Note that the this counts PDF pages, so a single slide having 6 unmasking steps will be 7 PDF pages long, including the initial near-blank page.
Use this if you want the clocks to stop at zero, use the G (goto) function to page 1 if you want to them to keep running.
Note that the Home key may be called "Pos 1" on some keyboards.
Use this if the audience sees your 'note' side with the clocks and you see the actual presentation on your screen.
If you just want to see the main presentation (for example, because the projector is behind you), use T.
Use this if you want to see the audience side on your screen, without showing the notes to the audience. Pressing the button again will switch back to normal operation.
Use this if you want to see the audience side and the notes on your screen (so the full presentation), leaving the audience's screen untouched. Pressing the button again will switch back to split mode.
Most (maybe not all) presenter remote controls technically act as a keyboard sending one of the keystrokes listed either in the main or additional keybindings. If your remote control does not work as intended, please file a bug report describing what keystrokes it generates when you press its buttons. If there is no conflict, a keybinding will be included in the next release.
None currently known.
If you find any bugs, the preferred way to report them is at the github issue tracker at https://github.com/dannyedel/dspdfviewer/issues.
As a fallback, you can send e-mail to mail@danny-edel.de with the word "dspdfviewer" in the subject line.
Note: Use "show notes on second screen=right" because dspdfviewer assumes that the right half of the page is the notes.
| July 30, 2015 |