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] [--demo] [--program
                               n:x:n:x:...]

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.

       If FILE is not given a file-open dialog box is shown to the user.

       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].

       -n [ --no-fullscreen ]
              Don't activate full-screen mode by default.

       --demo Automatically auto-advance presentation based on the
              frame  duration  PDF  attribute  (\transduration when using Latex Beamer) or the specified program
              (see the --program option).

       --program A program in the form
              n:x:n:x:n:x... where n are durations in seconds and "x" can be either "c" for cube transition  and
              "p"  for  plain  transition.  (e.g. --program 5:c:3:p). The last program is used for all remaining
              slides.

   Notes
       The first (and only) 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 toggle full-screen mode.

       t      Will toggle auto-advance (demo) 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).

CONFIGURATION FILE

       If the ~/.pdfcuberc file exists, it is used as a configuration file. The configuration file uses the same
       options as the command line (using the boost program options syntax). e.g.

              demo=true
              bgcolor=0:0:0
              program=5:p

EXAMPLES

       pdfcube foo.pdf
              Will display 'foo.pdf' in full-screen.

       pdfcube --demo --program 5:c foo.pdf
              Will display 'foo.pdf' in full-screen and will do a cube transition every 5 seconds.

       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

       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 0.0.5
       version is Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Mirko Maischberger.

pdfcube 0.0.5                                        03/2012                                          pdfcube(1)