Gab0 / PDFPresentator

About

PDF Presentator is a revival of the awesome software for dual-screen presentation of PDF documents called PDF Presenter which was released in 2011 and is still available and working.

The JAVA source code is also provided on the project's page, except the instructions require the Eclipse IDE which I don't use. So the purpose of this revival is mainly to provide a Apache Maven project to build PDF Presenter.

PDF Presenter is a full-featured software to present slides stored as pdf files. It allows to display slides in fullscreen on a secondary window/monitor, while the presentation is controlled from the main window/laptop screen/monitor. The novelty here is that you can draw and highlight over the slides, create annotation margins, and more. Navigation across slides is simple but efficient, and performance is good.

I'm cooking some ideas for new features and I'll try to implement those here... enjoy.

How to Build

• Requires Apache Maven.
• The compiled PdfPresentator.jar is available on this repository, so building is only required if you want to modify the source code.

make build

How to Run

• The directory presenter_lib contains dependencies, so it is required at runtime.

Method #1: make run

Method #2: java -jar PdfPresentator.jar

New features

Laser Pointer

Hold the right mouse button to make a red dot appear and follow your cursor. It will show up on the presentation screen.

This is a modified eraser that doesn't erase x}

Better File select dialog

Removed JFileChooser, so we'll stick to the default file selector of the user's OS.

Draw straight lines with the pen

By holding CTRL and dragging the pen around you'll draw a straight line on the slide.

Original Authors

Full credit goes to PDF Presenter authors:

• Shuo Yang
• Martin Tschirsich
• Jürgen Benjamin Ronshausen
• Niklas Büscher

http://pdfpresenter.sourceforge.net/