Dear Evince folks,

On 04/24/18 17:01, Paul Menzel wrote:

> For a presentation a speaker sometimes wants a two window
> presentation mode, where one window with the full screen view is on
> the external monitor/projector, and on the laptop there is a second
> “monitor window”, where the speaker also sees the current slide –
> which could be achieved by mirroring the screens – but also shows the
> preview of the previous and next slide. Normally, displaying comments
> for slides would also be shown, but I believe that is not possible
> with PDF presentation. Additionally, the speaker sees the elapsed
> time, and both windows are synchronized.
> 
> 1.  Is there a established name for this mode?
> 2.  I couldn’t find a bug report/feature request. Do you know of one?
> 3.  Is there a reason, Evince shouldn’t implement such a mode besides
>     missing resources?
> 4.  Are there alternative ways to achieve this for PDF presentation.
>     For HTML is for example possible with Pandoc exporting to HTML,
>     where the windows are controlled with JavaScript, for example
>     remark [1].

Only today, reading the German magazin LinuxUser [2], I learned about
pdfpc [3].

If the Evince project decided, that a multi-monitor presentation mode
is outside the scope of Evince, then pdfpc should be listed for that
purpose.


Kind regards,

Paul


> [1] https://remarkjs.com/
>     Press *c* to open a second window, and then *p* to put that in 
> presentation mode.
[2]: 
https://www.linux-community.de/ausgaben/linuxuser/2019/04/no-powerpoint-praesentationen/
[3]: https://pdfpc.github.io/

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