Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Danny Edel <deb...@danny-edel.de>
* Package name : dspdfviewer Version : 1.13 Upstream Author : Danny Edel <m...@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. . 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. . 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. -- Danny Edel m...@danny-edel.de deb...@danny-edel.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
