Released: December 2024
- Various bug fixes and improvements
- Support for newer library dependencies
Released: December 2022
- Support hidden slides
- Poster images for videos
- Undo/Redo for slide drawings
- JSON-schema for .pdfpc file
- Simple REST-server for remote control
Released: December 2020
- Switch to GPLv3+ licence
- JSON format for pdfpc file
- Markdown support for text notes
- Render LaTeX beamer and text notes in the same place
- Per-overlay notes
- Zoom feature in highlighted areas
- Spotlight mode
- Page transitions
- Automatic slide advancing
- Video controls in presentation window
- Max/unmax current slide view in presenter
- Consistency with pdfpc/command line overriding of options
- Allow run-time GUI customization
- Assorted bug fixes
Released: November 2020
Bug fix release:
- Compatibility with pdfpc LaTeX package
- Some UI glitches
- Icon rendering with HiDPI
- Allow multiple videos per slide
Released: February 2020
- Document reload
- Resizable windows
- Toggling between windowed and full screen mode
- Cheatsheet in application for key/mouse bindings
- PnP for monitors
- Improved caching behaviour (pdfpc will not lock the GUI during cold start)
- Support for XMP meta data and notes (see the CTAN pdfpc package)
- Hide pointer after a period of inactivity
- Windowed mode is now a pdfpcrc option
- Pressure sensitivity of input devices
- Forward history
- Support for executing external scripts
- DBus actions with arguments
- Bug fixes
Released: June 2019
- Fix loading of key bindings
Released: June 2019
- Better video playback support on Mac OS X
Released: February 2019
- Fix compile error on some distributions
Released: January 2019
- Fix --notes= behaviour
- Fix default key bindings for last/first overlay
Released: December 2018
- Backward incompatible changes
- Improvement/more logical default key bindings
- GTK+3 >= 3.22
- Four-State operation mode
- makes handling of drawing, eraser and pointer mode much easier
- Permament setting of pointer color and size in pdfpcrc
- Window placement can be done by monitor name
- Subtitles for video playback
- Different slide sizes per presentation are allowed
- Bug fixes
- Wayland high DPI scaling issues
- Window placement issues with some WMs
Released: October 2018
- Bug fix: Add missing icons to CMakeLists.txt
Released: October 2018
- Toolbar for pen/eraser/pointer mode (e.g. for touch screens)
- Jump to first overlay
- Bug fixes
- Print proper error messages if gstreamer fails to load because of missing plugins
- Fix freeze mode in combination with video slides
- Fix race conditions in gstreamer video pipeline (e.g. when the user switches slides 'too fast')
- Jumping to last overlay works reliable
- Video controls are working now with shown drawings on that slide
Released: May 2018
- Quick bug fix: restore good pixel rendering quality for non-annotated PDFs
- Fix version string for pdfpc --version
Released: May 2018
- Bug fixes
- Linking paths for some operation systems
- Correctly clickable links in PDF
- Color hints in timer
- Disable wayland scaling workaround by default
- Hide video if used with beamer notes
Released: October 2017
- Time pace color (adaptive color changes of the timer depending on the presenters speed)
- PDF annotations can be used as slide notes
- The .pdfpc file can now be located at different locations
- The .pdfpc file allows a notes include file
- Main window can be hidden during the talk
- Bug fixes
- Font increasing/decreasing of notes works more reliable
- Fix segfault if all slides are marked as overlays
- Wayland with HiDPI setting should have the correct window size
Released: August 2017
- Bug fixes
- Respects playmode for movies embedded with multimedia package
- More reliable movie playback (needs gstreamer-plguins-bad now!)
- Fix bug in overlay detection
- Pen drawing mode (allows user to draw on slides)
Released: June 2017
- Small bug fixes
- Store last_minute correctly in pdfpc file
- Use a new default gstreamer sink for video playing (fixes an issue where the sound work, but the video not)
- High CPU usage for some videos when the video is paused
- Fixed a crash for some video drivers
- Works with vala 0.36
- PDFPC can now store the last viewed slide to restore it at a later session
- A user can now skip already viewed overlays (and jump to the full slide directly)
Released: February 2017
- New command line option: -P/--page jump to a specific page after startup
- HiDPI support. Respect GDK Hints about HiDPI screens. This resolves an issue, where the slides where rendered blurry
- Escape special characters in text nodes. This resolves an issue where all text notes got lost if special characters where used.
- Allow more permanent config options per pdf/globally
- Resolve unfullscreening/out of screen bugs in low resolution or HiDPI scenarios
- Better Wayland support
- Overview slides contain the actual slide number to find specific slides faster
- Documentation improvements
Released: January 2017
- Persistent PNG cache for faster startup
- Layout fix:
- CSS fix for older GTK versions
- Fixed prev-slide semantics
- Next-slide view shows full slide in case of overlays
- Fix highlighting in overview mode (removed pixman error in logs)
- Enforced timer/status bar height. this area no longer "jumps" if icons are displayed
- Overview mode: click on slide goes to full slide (in case of overlays), SHIFT + click goes to the first slide
- Fixed history-back semantics
- Split man pages in pdfpc(1) for the program and pdfpcrc(5) for config file options
Released: November 2016
- auto-workaround for notes and auto-grouping bug
- fix CSS for newer GTK versions
Released: October 2016
- Compiles with vala 0.32
- pdfpc can now show some highlighting pointer
- Adds D-Bus Server for controlling pdfpc
- Minor Improvements:
- Search pdfpcrc files in XDG compliant directories
- Key shortcut to jump to the last overlay
- Made progress bar in movie playback optional
Released: February 2016
- Adds a option, -g, to disable auto-grouping of overlay slides
- Removes some command line options in favor of a configuration file, pdfpcrc
- Bug fixes:
- Movies with an end-time now correctly loop
- Fixes cut-off text in a number of cases
- Fixes issues where the screens might not move to the correct monitor
- Other small fixes
Released: November 2015
- Keybindings for changing font size of the notes view
- Hyperlinks to web pages are now opened in the web browser
- Instead of count downs, the current time can be displayed
- start/stop, noaudio attributes for movies
- The user can now configure the presenter view layout according to their needs
- Movie support can be disabled to allow compilation on Mac OS X / Windows (via cmake -DMOVIES=OFF)
- Bug fixes
Released: June 2015
- Major Moved to GTK+3
- New Maintainer
- Movie playback, based on gstreamer 1.0
- Support LaTeX beamer slides with notes
- Option to sepcify size in windowed mode
- Various bug fixed and documentation improvements
Released: July 2012
- Bug fix for released C sources
Released: June 2012
- Revamped overview mode, with better keyboard navigation support and better visual appearance (thanks to rschroll)
- Support for configuration files. Now all keybindings are configurable
- Improved layout management (thanks to rschroll)
- (Hopefully) Improved handling of fullscreen modes
Released: May 2012
- Renamed to pdfpc (forked from Pdf Presenter Console)
- Support for new poppler version
- Support for (textual) notes
- Support for overlays
- Overview mode
- Jump to slides by inputting the slide number
- Movement in 10-slide blocks allowed using shift
- Two additional timer modes: countup and end time of presentation
- Pause timer (useful for rehearsal talks)
- Support for mouse wheel (thanks to mikerofone) and bluetooth headset controls (thanks to NerdyProjects)
- Freezing and blacking out of presentation view
- Presenter view starts on primary screen
- Definition of "end slide"
- Navigable history of jumps
Released: 16. Jan 2010
- Complete rewrite of rendering system to allow more sophisticated actions.
- Changed license of the project from GPLv3 to GPLv2+ because of incompatibilities with Poppler. (Thanks to Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> and Barak A. Pearlmutter <barak@cs.nuim.ie> for pointing out this out).
- Implemented: Usage of left-/right mousebuttons for slide navigation.
- Implemented: Handling of navigational links inside of PDF files.
- Implemented: Abstraction to cache prerendered slides.
- Implemented: Compressed cache for prerendered slides.
- Implemented: Alternative way of executing the prerendering process to allow for smoother navigation while slides are generated.
- Implemented: Means to switch displays in single monitor mode as well as dual monitor mode
- Implemented: Disabled timer if a duration of 0 is provided
- Fixed: Build problems on Fedora 13 due to changed linking procedure
- Fixed: Slightly changed image data formats due to update of Gtk to Version 2.22 or higher.
- Implemented: Removed usage of deprecated Gdk.GC in favor of Cairo.
- Fixed: Compile error with newer vala versions due to wrong property visibility
- Fixed: Typo in help text
- Implemented: Controllable interface for cleaner controller code.
- Fixed: Install target is now executable.
- Fixed: Warnings shown in one-screen-presentation-mode, due to non existant process indicator.
- Implemented: Presentation timer as its own GTK Widget
- Implemented: Support for negative timer values (aka overtime)
- Implemented: Different Timer colors for normal time, the last x minutes and overtime
- Implemented: Made last-minutes time configurable
- Fixed: Library paths were not used correctly for compilation
- Implemented: Fullscreen window as own Gtk class
- Fixed: Problem which caused the windows not be displayed on the correct displays using the Xfce4 Xfwm window mananger.
- Implemented: Command line option to set the size of the current slide in the presenter screen
- Implemented: A few more common key bindings
- Implemented: Hide cursor after 5 seconds timeout
- Initial release