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Bug#663255: ITP: qpdfpresenterconsole -- PDF/Beamer presentation software.



Le 10/03/2012 14:34, Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit :
> On sam., 2012-03-10 at 14:26 +0100, Alexandre LISSY wrote:
>> Le 10/03/2012 14:01, Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit :
>>> On ven., 2012-03-09 at 21:44 +0100, Alexandre LISSY wrote:
>>>> Package: wnpp
>>>> Severity: wishlist
>>>> Owner: Alexandre LISSY <alexandre.lissy@etu.univ-tours.fr>
>>>>
>>>> * Package name    : qpdfpresenterconsole
>>>>   Version         : 2.5.3
>>>>   Upstream Author : Alexandre Lissy <alexandre.lissy@etu.univ-tours.fr>
>>>> * URL             : http://gitorious.org/qpdfpresenterconsole
>>>> * License         : MIT
>>>>   Programming Lang: C++
>>>>   Description     : This is a presentation console software, like what you can have in LibreOffice Impress with the appropriate plugin, targetting PDF presentations and especially Beamer one.
>>>>
>>>> This is a software I wrote because I needed one. It provides a nice help when preesnting with PDF files.
>>>> It's especially targetted at Beamer-generated PDF presentations, supporting left/right beamer notes
>>>> (you can also provide notes in a seperated .txt file), and it also supports embedded videos (using the
>>>> movie15 package, only one video per slide for now).
>>>>
>>>> I think it could be useful to several debian users, and I already have debian packaging ready (and an
>>>> Ubuntu PPA that is fed using this debian packaging stuff).
>>>>
>>>
>>> How is it different from
>>> http://packages.debian.org/sid/pdf-presenter-console ?
>>>
>>
>> It's not written in Vala, it supports playing videos and beamer notes,
>> at least.
>>
>> I started it after using pdf presenter console for a couple of days, and
>> having issues with it (slow rendering on slides transitions, things like
>> that).
> 
> And you didn't consider improving the original program instead of
> redoing everything from scratch?

Nope, because (mainly):
 - I don't know Vala, and did not wanted to waste time learning it
 - I asked around, people were interested in the concept but on other
OSes where Vala is not available

> 
> Regards,



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