About

pdfpc is a GTK-based presentation viewer which uses Keynote-like multi-monitor output to provide meta information to the speaker during the presentation. It is able to show a normal presentation window on one screen while showing a more sophisticated overview on the other one, providing information like a picture of the next slide, as well as the time left in the presentation. pdfpc processes PDF documents, which can be created using nearly all modern presentation software.

Screenshots

Presenter view, showing the current and next slides, remaining time, notes and some additional information.

Overview mode showing all the slides in the presentation

News

• December 2022: pdfpc 4.6.0 release
• December 2020: pdfpc 4.5.0 release
• November 2020: pdfpc 4.4.1 release
• February 2020: pdfpc 4.4.0 release
• June 2019: pdfpc 4.3.4 release
• June 2019: pdfpc 4.3.3 release
• February 2019: pdfpc 4.3.2 release
• January 2019: pdfpc 4.3.1 release
• December 2018: pdfpc 4.3.0 release
• October 2018: pdfpc 4.2.1 release
• October 2018: pdfpc 4.2 release
• May 2018: pdfpc 4.1.2 release
• May 2018: pdfpc 4.1.1 release
• October 2017: pdfpc 4.1 release
• August 2017: pdfpc 4.0.8 release
• June 2017: pdfpc 4.0.7 release
• February 2017: pdfpc 4.0.6 release
• January 2017: pdfpc 4.0.5 release
• November 2016: pdfpc 4.0.4 release
• October 2016: pdfpc 4.0.3 release
• February 2016: pdfpc 4.0.2 release
• November 2015: pdfpc 4.0.1 release
• June 2015: pdfpc 4.0 release
• February 2015: continued work on davvil’s pdfpc
• July 2012: pdfpc 3.1.1 released (bugfix release)
• June 2012: pdfpc 3.1 released
• May 2012: pdfpc 3.0 released

Features

The most relevant features of pdfpc are:

• Shows current and next slide
• Support for notes, both as text and on slides (as generated by LaTeX beamer)
• Support for overlays (e.g. as generated by the beamer LaTeX package)
• Timer or countdown showing remaining time in the presentation
• Overview mode for quick switching between slides
• Freezing and turning off the presentation view
• Customizable keybindings, enabling support for different presenter devices
• Video playback support

To get a better feeling of pdfpc, install it, download the demo presentation and start it with

$ pdfpc pdfpc-demo.pdf

or try an example with movies and start it with

$ pdfpc video-example.pdf

Getting pdfpc

At our GitHub Page. there is an extensive description on how to get pdfpc.

Acknowledgements

pdfpc is a fork of pdf presenter console by Jakob Westhoff. pdfpc 4.0 is the continued work on pdfpc mainly developed by David Vilar’s pdfpc.