BeamerPresenter is a PDF viewer for presentations designed to show additional information to the speaker on a separate screen.
Multimedia content and tools for drawing/highlighting allow you to make the presentation interactive. The modular user interface can show notes (text or separate PDF file), a timer, thumbnails of the slides etc.
This software uses the Qt framework and the PDF engines MuPDF or Poppler. It is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Modular user interface: adapt for your presentation style and technical equipment (number of monitors, required extra information for the speaker, input devices, …),
- Compressed cache for fast slide changes.
- Videos and slide transitions.
- Draw in slides, save drawings in a format compatible with Xournal++.
- Highlighting tools (pointer, torch, magnifier).
- Rich text notes for the speaker.
- (optionally) Show separate presentation file for speaker or use LaTeX-beamer’s option to show notes on second screen.
- Timer indicates progress relative to a predefined schedule by it’s color.
- Navigate using document outline, thumbnail slides, page numbers/labels and links.
Website: github.com/stiglers-eponym/BeamerPresenter
Support:
Developer: Valentin Bruch
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
BeamerPresenter is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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