PDFCube 0.0.1

Welcome to PDFCube (wiki) home page.

PDFCube aims at adding some special effects to your PDF presentations. This adds some 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)
• GtkGlExt
• 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!