pdfcube(1) pdfcube presentation viewer pdfcube(1)
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.
pdfcube 0.0.4 11/2011 pdfcube(1)