NAME

       pyntor - modular slides viewer and presentation tool

SYNOPSIS

       pyntor [OPTIONS] presentation-file|presentation-archive

DESCRIPTION

       Pyntor  is  a  presentation  tool  which  can display slides and effects of various formats thanks to its
       collection of components which are loaded as specified in the presentation-file, commonly called  script.
       Components can either affect the rendering or the input handling, or both.  They are documented in detail
       in  components.txt  in  the  pyntor documentation directory, while this manual page tries to only briefly
       document the user interface to the program on the command line and some keyboard  shortcuts  to  be  used
       while the pyntor is running.

       Since presentations are normally distributed as presentation-archive files, usually named *.pyntor, those
       too are accepted as parameters to pyntor.  To learn about the creation of presentations and archives, see
       below for some references.

OPTIONS

       -c, --components
              Creates  and  outputs  a  formatted  list of slides, tracking the components in use like in a real
              presentation. Additionally, all components are checked for presence and usability. This option  is
              mainly useful for debugging, but also to get a quick overview of a presentation.

       -d, --direct=scriptline
              IF  a  presentation  only  uses  a  single component, no script needs to be created.  Instead, the
              component invocation line which would normally be written into the script can be  passed  directly
              on the command line.

       -x, --export=file.pdf|htmldir
              Exports  a  presentation  to  a  (fixed-size)  PDF file, if the option argument suffix is .pdf, or
              otherwise to a directory of PNG images and a simple HTML file with thumbnail preview images.

       -w, --windowed
              When running the presentation, do not switch to fullscreen, but run  in  a  window  instead.  This
              option is also mainly useful for debugging.

       -v, --version
              Displays the version number of Pyntor.

       -h, --help
              Displays  a  summary of all available command line options.  This option works without providing a
              script.

       -u, --usage
              Displays common usage scenarios so that the desired effect can be achieved quickly.  The  examples
              are  for  running  a  presentation  and  debugging  one,  respectively.  This option works without
              providing a script.

SHORTCUTS

       The following keyboard  shortcuts  are  supported  globally  throughout  Pyntor.   Note  that  individual
       components can make use of additional shortcuts, please consult the component documentation about this.

       F      Toggle between fullscreen mode and windowed mode for displaying slides.

       P      Pyntor menu to allow jumping to arbitrary slides of the presentation.

       S      Pyntor  menu to allow type-as-you-find fulltext search, followed by slide jumping as with P.  This
              is useful for the situation of having people reminded of  some  slide  without  knowing  the  page
              number after a talk.

       T      Gadget  displaying the clock time and already spent presentation time in the lower right corner of
              the screen. Consecutive presses of the T key will increase  the  brightness  of  the  gadget,  but
              usually the indicator is for the presenter and not for the audience.

AUTHORS

       Josef Spillner <josef@coolprojects.org>

SEE ALSO

       pyntor-components(1), pyntor-selfrun(1)

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