pympress 1.2.0

A simple dual-screen PDF reader designed for presentations

What is Pympress?
=================

Pympress is a little PDF reader written in Python using Poppler for PDF
rendering and GTK+ for the GUI.

It is designed to be a dual-screen reader used for presentations and
public talks, with two displays: the *Content window* for a projector,
and the *Presenter window* for your laptop. It is portable and has been
tested on various Mac, Windows and Linux systems.

It comes with many great features: - supports embedded videos - text
annotations displayed in the presenter window - natively supports
beamer’s *notes on second screen*!

Pympress is a free software, distributed under the terms of the GPL
license (version 2 or, at your option, any later version).

Pympress was originally created and maintained by
`Schnouki <https://github.com/Schnouki>`__, on `his
repo <https://github.com/Schnouki/pympress>`__.

Installing
==========

If you have python
------------------

First, make sure you have all `the dependencies <#dependencies>`__.

Using pip
~~~~~~~~~

Run the following command in your shell (or replace ``python3 -m pip``
with ``python -m pip`` or just ``pip``, and ):

::

python3 -m pip install pympress

Or you can get it from github:

::

python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/Cimbali/pympress#egg=pympress

If you don’t have pip, see `the python documentation on
installing <https://docs.python.org/3.7/installing/index.html>`__.

From source
~~~~~~~~~~~

If you also want the source code, you can clone this repo or grab `the
latest releases’
source <https://github.com/Cimbali/pympress/releases/latest>`__, open a
console where you put the code, and type ``python3 -m pip install .``
(or, if you plan on modifying that code,
``python3 -m pip install -e .``).

Binary install (currently only for windows)
-------------------------------------------

Grab `the latest installer for your
platform <https://github.com/Cimbali/pympress/releases/latest>`__ and
execute it. If you don’t want to know about source code or dependencies,
this is for you.

Packages with ‘amd64’ in the name are for 64 bit machines, ‘x86’ for 32
bit machines. The ‘vlc’ suffix indicates that the installer ships VLC as
well, so try it if the other version fails to read videos.

If you get an error message along the lines of “MSVCP100.dll is
missing”, get the Visual C++ redistributables from Microsoft (`x86 (32
bit) <https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=5555>`__
or `x64 (64
bits) <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14632>`__).
Those libraries really should already be installed on your system.

Usage
=====

Opening a file
--------------

Simply start Pympress and it will ask you what file you want to open.
You can also start pympress from the command line with a file to open
like so: ``pympress slides.pdf`` or ``python3 -m pympress slides.pdf``

Functionalities
---------------

All functionalities are available from the menus of the window with
slide previews. Don’t be afraid to experiment with them!

Keyboard shortcuts are also listed in these menus. Some more usual
shortcuts are often available, for example ``Ctrl``\ +\ ``L``, and
``F11`` also toggle fullscreen, though the main shortcut is just ``F``.

A few of the fancier functionalities are listed here: - **Swap
screens**: If Pympress mixed up which screen is the projector and which
is not, press ``S`` - **Go To Slide**: To jump to a selected slide
without flashing through the whole presentation on the projector, press
``G`` or click the “current slide” box.

A spin box will appear, and you will be able to navigate through your
slides in the presenter window only by scrolling your mouse, with the
``Home``/``Up``/``Down``/``End`` keys, with the + and - buttons of the
spin box, or simply by typing in the number of the slide. Press
``Enter`` to validate going to the new slide or ``Esc`` to cancel. -
**Estimated talk time**: Click the ``Time estimation`` box and set your
planned talk duration. You can also pass this on the command line
through the ``-ett`` flag. The color will allow you to see at a glance
how much time you have left. - **Adjust screen centering**: If your
slides’ form factor doesn’t fit the projectors’ and you don’t want the
slide centered in the window, use the “Screen Center” option in the
“Presentation” menu. - **Resize Current/Next slide**: You can drag the
bar between both slides on the Presenter window to adjust their relative
sizes to your liking. - **Preferences**: Some of your choices are saved
in a configuration file, in *~/.config/pympress* or *~/.pympress* on
linux, and in *%APPDATA%/pympress.ini* on windows. - **Cache**: For
efficiency, Pympress caches rendered pages (up to 200 by default). If
this is too memory consuming for you, you can change this number in the
configuration file.

Dependencies
============

Pympress relies on: \* Python, 3.x or 2.7 (with
`setuptools <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools>`__, which is
usually shipped by default with python). \*
`Poppler <http://poppler.freedesktop.org/>`__, the PDF rendering
library. \* `Gtk+ 3 <http://www.gtk.org/>`__, a toolkit for creating
graphical user interfaces, and `its
dependencies <https://www.gtk.org/overview.php>`__, specifically: \*
`Cairo <https://www.cairographics.org/>`__ (and python bindings for
cairo), the graphics library which is used to pre-render and draw over
PDF pages. \* Gdk, a lower-level graphics library to handle icons. \*
`PyGi, the python bindings for
Gtk+3 <https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject>`__. PyGi is also known
as *pygobject3*, just *pygobject* or *python3-gi*. \* Introspection
bindings for poppler may be shipped separately, ensure you have those as
well (``typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18`` on OpenSUSE, ``gir1.2-poppler-0.18``
on Ubuntu) \* optionally `VLC <https://www.videolan.org/vlc/>`__, to
play videos (with the same bitness as Python)

On linux platforms
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The dependencies are often installed by default, or easily available
through your package or software manager. For example, on ubuntu, you
can run the following as root to make sure you have all the
prerequisites *assuming you use python3*:

::

apt-get install python3 python3-pip libgtk-3-0 libpoppler-glib8 libcairo2 python3-gi python3-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-poppler-0.18

Different distributions might have different package naming conventions,
for example the equivalent on OpenSUSE would be:

::

zypper in python3 python3-pip libgtk-3-0 libpoppler-glib8 libcairo2 python3-gobject python3-gobject-Gdk python3-cairo typelib-1_0-GdkPixbuf-2_0 typelib-1_0-Gtk-3_0 typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18

On windows
~~~~~~~~~~

There are two ways to get the dependencies:

1. using MSYS2 (replace x86_64 with i686 if you’re using a 32 bit
machine):

::

pacman -S --needed mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3 mingw-w64-x86_64-cairo mingw-w64-x86_64-poppler mingw-w64-x86_64-python3 mingw-w64-x86_64-vlc python3-pip mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-pip mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-gobject mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-cairo

2. Using PyGobjectWin32. *Be sure to check the supported Python versions
(up to 3.4 at the time of writing)*, they appear in the FEATURES list
in the linked page.

- Install native `python for
windows <https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/>`__
- Get GTK+3, Poppler and their python bindings by executing `the PyGi
installer <https://sourceforge.net/projects/pygobjectwin32/>`__. Be
sure to tick all the necessary dependencies in the installer
(Poppler, Cairo, Gdk-Pixbuf).

Alternately, you can build your Gtk+3 stack from source using MSVC, see
`the Gnome
wiki <https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK+/Win32/MSVCCompilationOfGTKStack>`__
and `this python script that compiles the whole Gtk+3
stack <https://github.com/wingtk/gvsbuild/>`__

On macOS
~~~~~~~~

Dependencies can be installed using `Homebrew <https://brew.sh/>`__:

::

brew install gtk+3 poppler gobject-introspection

Contributing
============

Feel free to clone this repo and use it, modify it, redistribute it,
etc, under the GPLv2+. Pympress has inline sphinx documentation (`Google
style <http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/latest/ext/example_google.html>`__,
contains rst syntax), and the `docs
folder <https://github.com/Cimbali/pympress/tree/master/docs/>`__
contains the documentation generated from it, hosted on `the github
pages of this
repo <https://cimbali.github.io/pympress/pympress.html>`__.

Translations
------------

If you want to add a translation, check if
``pympress/share/locale/<language>/pympress.po`` already exists. If not,
take `the template
file <https://github.com/Cimbali/pympress/tree/master/pympress/share/locale/pympress.pot>`__
as input and translate all the strings, then add it to the repo in
``pympress/share/locale/<language>/pympress.po``. Finally pass this .po
file to msgfmt and add the output to the repo at
``pympress/share/locale/<language>/LC_MESSAGES/pympress.mo``.