NAME¶
pdfcube - a PDF presentation viewer with 3D effects.
SYNOPSIS¶
pdfcube
FILE [--help] [--bgcolor f:f:f]
[--top-color f:f:f] [--no-fullscreen]
DESCRIPTION¶
pdfcube(1) is a tiny (about 30KiB) viewer for Portable Document Format
(PDF) files that adds spinning cube transition effect to your PDF presentation
files. It can also zoom on 5 predefined areas with a smooth zooming effect.
This program is suited only for landscape PDF files, mostly presentations done
with LaTeX (Beamer, Prosper, etc.) or OpenOffice.org Impress.
pdfcube(1) is an open source, low-effort, spare-time, money-less project.
Your help is welcome!
OPTIONS¶
- -h [ --help ]
- This help message.
- -v [ --version ]
- Version information
- -b [ --bgcolor ] arg
- Background color is 'r:g:b' with real values between 0.0
and 1.0, no spaces.
- -t [ --top-color ] arg
- Cube top color in 'r:g:b' format again with reals in
[0,1].
- -c [ --transitions ]
- This option has been removed. Use the ransboxin transition
in your beamer latex source to program transitions in advance.
- -i [ --input-file ] arg
- PDF file to show.
- -n [ --no-fullscreen ]
- Don't activate full-screen mode by default.
Notes¶
The "-i" option can be omitted, the first non-option string is treated
as the input file.
INTERACTIVE CONTROL¶
- c, a
- Will display the next/previous page with a cube transition
effect.
- SPACE, PG-DOWN
- Will switch to the next page with the programmed
effect.
- h, j, k, l, z
- Will zoom into the predefined areas.
- g
- Will undo any zoom.
- ESC, Ctrl-q
- Will exit pdfcube immediately.
- PG-UP, Left-Arrow
- Will quick-switch to the previous page.
- Right-Arrow
- Will quick-switch to the next page.
- f
- Will switch full-screen mode.
- Ctrl-l
- Will redraw the screen.
- Ctrl-1, Ctrl-2, ..., Ctrl-9
- Will jump to the page corresponding to the n-th programmed
transition (if any).
- 1, 2, ..., 9
- Will jump to page 5*(n-1).
EXAMPLES¶
- pdfcube foo.pdf
- Will display 'foo.pdf' in full-screen.
- pdfcube foo.pdf --bgcolor 0:0:0
--top-color 0.6:0.2:0.2
- Will display 'foo.pdf' with custom background and cube
color.
BUGS¶
pdfcube(1) can view only PDF files with a 4:3 aspect ratio. This is a
known "feature": the program is oriented to view presentations on a
projected screen.
On some systems color values are locale dependent (e.g. you may have to write
0,6 instead of 0.6)
See
http://code.100allora.it/pdfcube/report/ for the bugtracker of
pdfcube(1) (you should obtain an account contacting the author first).
Or please report any bug to the author.
AUTHORS¶
Written by Mirko Maischberger, <mailto:mirko.maischberger@gmail.com> and
Karol Sokolowsky <sokoow@gmail.com>
RESOURCES¶
Main web site:
http://code.100allora.it/pdfcube/
THANKS¶
I'd like to thank the LILiK laboratory in Florence, Italy for having teached me
the value of open-source and open-culture.
COPYING¶
This manpage is available under the same GPL v2 or later license as the main
program, the original manpage was written by Alexander Wirt
<mailto:formorer@debian.org> for the Debian distribution. The 0.0.4
version is Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Mirko Maischberger.