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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Danny Edel <debian@danny-edel.de>
* Package name : dspdfviewer
Version : 1.13
Upstream Author : Danny Edel <mail@danny-edel.de>
* URL : http://dspdfviewer.danny-edel.de/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C++
Description : Dual-Screen PDF Viewer for LaTeX-beamer
This is a specialized PDF Viewing application custom-made for
the LaTeX class beamer, specifically the
"show notes on second screen=right" option.
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To make use of this program, you will need a document created
by latex-beamer, and you will need two monitors connected to
your computer.
They do not need to have the same resolution, not even the same
aspect ratio.
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This program will split your PDF page in half, and display the
left half (intended for the audience) on one monitor (think:
a notebook's VGA output connected to your university's projector)
and it will display the right half (intended for you) on the
second screen.
Also, on the second screen, you get page thumbnails and status
information, like the time since you started the presentation
and a "wall clock".
Answering the questions from the template:
> why is this package useful/relevant?
While I could create dual-width presentations with latex' beamer class,
there was no viewer to render them to independent screens (workarounds
included setting the screens to identical sizes and dragging a viewer
window to both screens)
> is it a dependency for another package?
No, but you could think of it as an enhancement for latex-beamer.
> do you use it?
Yes, I do, and judging from the resonance on email, github and
stackoverflow, so do other people, both using debian systems and other
distributions. Since I want to make life easier for current and future
users of my software running debian, I'm asking for an inclusion in the
official software list.
> if there are other packages providing similar functionality,
> how does it compare?
I don't know of any packages providing similar functionality, that was
the reason I programmed it in the first place.
> how do you plan to maintain it? inside a packaging team
> (check list at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams)? are you
> looking for co-maintainers? do you need a sponsor?
I have been maintaining the software itself on github since winter
2012/2013, and have built deb packages to my third-party repository
since then.
I plan to maintain the debian package myself, trying to keep it as close
to upstream as possible, but compliant to debian guidelines.
I will need a sponsor since I'm new to official debian packaging.
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Danny Edel
mail@danny-edel.de
debian@danny-edel.de
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