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PDFCube 0.0.5

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PDFCube renders PDF presentations with special 3D effects. It adds eye-candy to your PDF presentations, specially Latex, Beamer and Prosper ones.

Please see the man page for usage information.

You'll need an OpenGL DRI enabled Xorg. GPL ATI 9250 driver is OK, i've not tested other cards but had feedback from many users on the net about a wide range of cards.

This is alpha software (and right now it's a quick hack too), but once you manage to get it working it's fairly stable and usable.

If you want to hack on the code feel free to contact me at [email protected] either via mail or via jabber.

BUGS

This program is intended to present landscape PDF files on 4:3 projection screen, it is not suited to view generic PDF files. If you try to view portrait files you'll see only the top of each page. This is not so strange since this program is not intended as a generic PDF viewer but as a specific presentation tool.

There is a little glitch in the animation when going back with cube animation. I hope is not too annoying.

If you experience other glitches it's probably due to some compositing software (KDE Kwin, Compiz or others) this is a limitation in Xorg and the graphic drivers: you can only have one OpenGL accelerated application at a time. Try disabling the wm effects.

With some older versions of libpoppler there are some rendering errors, this should be solved by recent poppler releases.

Conditional compilation macros and Dependencies

You can define NDEBUG to get rid of debug output. You can try ENABLE_FOG if you like, the default is to have it off.

  • Linux/BSD with Xorg
  • Poppler (>=0.5.4 recommended) (Debian/Ubuntu package: libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev)
  • GtkGlExt (Debian/Ubuntu package: libgtkglext1-dev)
  • Boost C++ Program Option Library

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Feel free to write to [email protected]

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Happy Hacking

Mirko Maischberger

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🎲 As seen on UNESCO, Free Software Foundation (http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/PDF_Cube), www.OpenGL.org (https://www.opengl.org/news/archives/2008/12), Linux Weekly News (2006 and 2008), and Fedora Weekly News. Now finally available on GitHub. The wretchedly worst piece of software to receive this amount of attention since Windows ME!

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