PDFCube 0.0.1

Welcome to PDFCube (wiki) home page.

PDFCube renders some special effects to your PDF presentations. Add eye-candy to your Beamer/Prosper?/LaTeX files.

http://code.100allora.it/pdfcube/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/pdfcube.jpg?format=raw

Right now you can do a rotating cube transition pressing "c", zoom on 5 areas with "h", "j", "k", "l" and "z" keys or simply switching pages with double buffering (no redrawing is visible) and with full anti-alias.

You'll need an OpenGL DRI enabled Xorg. GPL ATI 9250 driver is OK, i've not tested other cards.

This is alpha software (and right now it's a quick hack too), but once you manage to get it working it's fairly stable and usable.

If you want to hack on the code feel free to contact me at <mirko.maischberger at gmail dot com> either via mail or via jabber.

Future Plans

• Use the strategy pattern to clearly uncouple animations from cube logic.
• Add more animations.
• Have a language so we can program presentations (cube animations, zooming, other transitions).
• Read transitions effects from PDF file.

Dependencies

• Linux with Xorg
• Poppler (>=0.5.4 recommended) (Debian/Ubuntu? package: libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev)
• GtkGlExt (Debian/Ubuntu? package: libgtkglext1-dev)
• OpenGL

Downloading

Use:

svn co http://code.100allora.it/svn/pdfcube/trunk/pdfcube

to get the latest unstable development version of the code.

Type "make", read error messages, install needed development packages, make again!

Contact information

Feel free to write to the author <mirko.maischberger@…>