Tag: pdfpc

My slide deck tool ( rst2pdf ) produces PDFs, and I use pdfpc to present the PDF slides. It shows the current and next slides, my notes, a timer, and it probably does other things too that I don't use! I've used it for years but it was really designed for "in real world" presenting with one or two screens. Recently I discovered it also supports some great options for remote presentations, but I had to look up how to do that so here are my notes (mostly in case I need to look it up 1 minute before I go on stage again!!).

I've been using PDF as a file format for presentations for the last ~8 years and I LOVE it. The clue is in the name: Portable Document Format: it's an open standard, and works everywhere. You can embed your fonts, images, whatever ... if you end up presenting it from another machine for some reason, everything is going work, even when you want to upload the slides afterwards. Yet, it's still a pretty unusual choice, I think because people don't know much about the tooling around it - so I thought I'd share some of my tips.

Today: tools for actually delivering a PDF presentation (I make them with rst2pdf ).