Pympress is a PDF presentation tool designed for dual-screen setups.
It displays the presentation on one screen while providing the speaker with the current slide, upcoming slides, notes, timers, and other controls on a second screen.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides separate presenter and audience displays.
- Shows the current slide, upcoming slides, speaker notes, talk time, and wall-clock time.
- Supports PDF annotations, Beamer notes on a second screen, and LibreOffice notes pages.
- Plays embedded or linked videos, audio files, and animated GIFs.
- Offers a highlight mode for drawing freehand on the current slide.
- Includes a software laser pointer.
- Jump directly to a slide without displaying intermediate slides to the audience.
- Provides an overview of the complete slide deck.
- Records the time spent on individual slides and presentation sections.
- Automatically reloads a presentation when its PDF file changes.
- Supports editable PDF annotations.
- Offers configurable keyboard shortcuts and presenter layouts.
- Supports automatic slide advancement and looping.
Website: github.com/Cimbali/pympress
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Developer: Cimbali
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Pympress is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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