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BeamerPresenter

Multi-monitor pdf presentation tool. This Qt-based presentation viewer shows a presentation and notes for the speaker in separate windows. The modular interface supports different forms of notes and interactive tools.

The small window in this image is the presentation window that is usually shown on a projector. In this configuration previews of the next slides are shown to the speaker.

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Windows  requires MSYS2 and manual build configuration with instructions provided
  • Linux
Different highlighting tool, including magnifier, torch and pointer, can be used to draw attention to parts of your slide.
PDF documents can include videos, sounds, slide transitions and some primitive animations. These features are partially supported by BeamerPresenter.
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Properties

  1.  Support for Themes
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  PDF annotation
  2.  Support for Multiple Monitors
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  No Tracking
  5.  Dark Mode
  6.  No registration required
  7.  Full-Text Search
  8.  Ad-free
  9.  Interactive Presentations

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What is BeamerPresenter?

BeamerPresenter shows a presentation and (optionally) notes for the speaker in different windows. Notes can be provided as separate PDF document or in markdown format. Along with the notes, BeamerPresenter show previews of the next slides, a clock and a timer.

Features include:

  • Videos in the presentation
  • draw and highlight in the presentation, focus your audience' attention using a pointer, torch and magnifier
  • drawing optimized for tablet input, using file format compatible with Xournal++, per-slide drawing history, ...
  • Prerendering slides to compressed cache (cache size can be configured)
  • Slide transitions (as defined in the PDF)
  • LaTeX beamer option "show slides on second screen"
  • read polylux .pdfpc files (PDF overlays and markdown notes)
  • fully modular user interface: adjust to your use case and hardware (e.g. presentation, interactive lecture, ...)
  • choose Poppler, MuPDF or Qt PDF as PDF engine

BeamerPresenter is only tested regularly on GNU/Linux systems, but the framework (Qt with cmake) is platform independent. Packages are available for Nix, Arch/Manjaro (via AUR), Ubuntu 24.04/22.04/20.04 (and instructions for building on newer versions) and flatpak. For Windows, instructions are provided to build BeamerPresenter using MSYS2. Building on Mac with homebrew should also be possible.