pdfpc

A presenter console with multi-monitor support for PDF files

About

pdfpc is a GTK-based presentation viewer 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 time left in the presentation. pdfpc processes PDF documents, which can be created using nearly all modern presentation software.

Screenshots

Presenter view of pdfpc — Presenter view, showing the current and next slides, remaining time, notes and some additional information.

Overview of pdfpc — Overview mode showing all the slides in the presentation

News

December 2022: pdfpc 4.6.0 release
December 2020: pdfpc 4.5.0 release
November 2020: pdfpc 4.4.1 release
February 2020: pdfpc 4.4.0 release
June 2019: pdfpc 4.3.4 release
June 2019: pdfpc 4.3.3 release
February 2019: pdfpc 4.3.2 release
January 2019: pdfpc 4.3.1 release
December 2018: pdfpc 4.3.0 release
October 2018: pdfpc 4.2.1 release
October 2018: pdfpc 4.2 release
May 2018: pdfpc 4.1.2 release
May 2018: pdfpc 4.1.1 release
October 2017: pdfpc 4.1 release
August 2017: pdfpc 4.0.8 release
June 2017: pdfpc 4.0.7 release
February 2017: pdfpc 4.0.6 release
January 2017: pdfpc 4.0.5 release
November 2016: pdfpc 4.0.4 release
October 2016: pdfpc 4.0.3 release
February 2016: pdfpc 4.0.2 release
November 2015: pdfpc 4.0.1 release
June 2015: pdfpc 4.0 release
February 2015: continued work on davvil’s pdfpc
July 2012: pdfpc 3.1.1 released (bugfix release)
June 2012: pdfpc 3.1 released
May 2012: pdfpc 3.0 released

Features

The most relevant features of pdfpc are:

Shows current and next slide
Support for notes, both as text and on slides (as generated by LaTeX beamer)
Support for overlays (e.g. as generated by the beamer LaTeX package)
Timer or countdown showing remaining time in the presentation
Overview mode for quick switching between slides
Freezing and turning off the presentation view
Customizable keybindings, enabling support for different presenter devices
Video playback support

To get a better feeling of pdfpc, install it, download the demo presentation and start it with

$ pdfpc pdfpc-demo.pdf

or try an example with movies and start it with

$ pdfpc video-example.pdf

Getting pdfpc

At our GitHub Page. there is an extensive description on how to get pdfpc.

Acknowledgements

pdfpc is a fork of pdf presenter console by Jakob Westhoff. pdfpc 4.0 is the continued work on pdfpc mainly developed by David Vilar’s pdfpc.