Bug#935151: ITP: pympress -- dual-screen PDF reader used for presentations and public talks
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christopher Hoskin <mans0954@debian.org>
* Package name : pympress
Version : 1.4.1
Upstream Author : Cimbali
* URL : https://github.com/Cimbali/pympress/
* License : GPL-2+
Programming Lang: Python
Description : dual-screen PDF reader for presentations and public talks
Pympress is a little PDF reader written in Python using Poppler for PDF
rendering and GTK+ for the GUI.
It is designed to be a dual-screen reader used for presentations and public
talks, with two displays: the Content window for a projector, and the Presenter
window for your laptop. It is portable and has been tested on various Mac,
Windows and Linux systems.
It comes with many great features (more below):
* supports embedded gifs and videos
* text annotations displayed in the presenter window
* natively supports beamer's notes on second screen!
Whilst there are other PDF viewers already packaged for Debian, most of these
don't include native support for displaying Beamer presentations with the slides
on one screen and the notes on the other. I use Pympress for this purpose
myself.
Dspdfviewer is packaged for Debian and also provides built in support for
Beamer, but has less of a GUI, making it harder for novices to use. It doesn't
appear to be being actively developed (last commit 3 years ago) whereas the
lastest version of Pympress was released 6 days ago. Pympress also supports
annotations.
I plan to maintain Pympress within the Python Applications Packaging Team
(PAPT). I am a Debian Developer, so do not require a sponsor.
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