| 1 | = PDFCube 0.0.3 = |
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| 3 | PDFCube renders PDF presentations with special 3D effects. It adds |
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| 4 | eye-candy to your PDF presentations, specially Latex, Beamer and |
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| 5 | Prosper ones. |
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| 7 | Please see the man page for usage information. |
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| 9 | You'll need an OpenGL DRI enabled Xorg. GPL ATI 9250 driver is OK, |
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| 10 | i've not tested other cards but had feedback from many users on the |
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| 11 | net about a wide range of cards. |
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| 13 | This is alpha software (and right now it's a quick hack too), but once |
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| 14 | you manage to get it working it's fairly stable and usable. |
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| 16 | If you want to hack on the code feel free to contact me at |
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| 17 | <mirko.maischberger@gmail.com> either via mail or via jabber. |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | == BUGS == |
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| 21 | This program is intended to present landscape PDF files on 4:3 |
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| 22 | projection screen, it is not suited to view generic PDF files. If you |
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| 23 | try to view portrait files you'll see only the top of each page. This |
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| 24 | is not so strange since this program is not intended as a generic PDF |
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| 25 | viewer but as a specific presentation tool. |
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| 27 | There is a little glitch in the animation when going back with cube |
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| 28 | animation. I hope is not too annoying. |
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| 30 | If you experience other glitches it's probably due to some compositing |
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| 31 | software (KDE Kwin, Compiz or others) this is a limitation in Xorg and |
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| 32 | the graphic drivers: you can only have one OpenGL accelerated |
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| 33 | application at a time. Try disabling the wm effects. |
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| 35 | With some older versions of libpoppler there are some rendering |
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| 36 | errors, this should be solved by recent poppler releases. |
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| 38 | == Conditional compilation macros and Dependencies == |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | You can define NDEBUG to get rid of debug output. You can try |
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| 41 | ENABLE_FOG if you like, the default is to have it off. |
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| 43 | * Linux/BSD with Xorg |
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| 44 | * Poppler (>=0.5.4 recommended) (Debian/Ubuntu package: |
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| 45 | libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev) |
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| 46 | * GtkGlExt (Debian/Ubuntu package: libgtkglext1-dev) |
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| 47 | * OpenGL (freeglut3-dev) |
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| 48 | * Boost C++ Program Option Library |
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| 50 | == Contact information == |
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| 52 | Feel free to write to <mirko.maischberger@gmail.com> |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | == Word of Mouth == |
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| 56 | If you like this project please support by voting on this sites or blogging it: |
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| 57 | * http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdfcube |
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| 58 | * http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/PDF_Cube |
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| 60 | Happy Hacking |
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| 61 | - Mirko Maischberger |
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