.TH "\fBpdfcube\fR" "1" "11/2008" "pdfcube 0.0.3" "pdfcube presentation viewer" .SH "NAME" \fBpdfcube\fP - a PDF presentations viewer with some eye-candy in 3D. .SH "SYNOPSIS" .HP 24 \fBpdfcube\fP \fIFILE\fP [\fB--help\fP] [\fB--bgcolor\fP \fIf,f,f\fP] [\fB--top-color\fP \fIf,f,f\fP] [\fB--no-fullscreen\fP] [\fB--transitions\fP \fIn\fP \fIn\fP \fIn\fP \.\.\.] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP \fBpdfcube\fP(1) is a tiny (about 30KiB) viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files that adds spinning cube transition effect to your PDF presentation files (like Compiz or Mac ones). 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. .PP \fBpdfcube\fP(1) is an open source, low-effort, spare-time, money-less project. Your help is welcome! .SH "OPTIONS" .TP \fB\-h\fR [ \fB\-\-help\fR ] This help message. .TP \fB\-v\fR [ \fB\-\-version\fR ] Version information .TP \fB\-b\fR [ \fB\-\-bgcolor\fR ] arg Background color is 'r,g,b' with real values between 0.0 and 1.0, no spaces. .TP \fB\-t\fR [ \fB\-\-top\-color\fR ] arg Cube top color in 'r,g,b' format again with reals in [0,1]. .TP \fB\-c\fR [ \fB\-\-transitions\fR ] arg Pages at wich to do a cube transition by default eg. 2 4 7 Must be the last option on the command line. .TP \fB\-i\fR [ \fB\-\-input\-file\fR ] arg PDF file to show. .TP \fB\-n\fR [ \fB\-\-no\-fullscreen\fR ] Don't activate full\-screen mode by default. .PP .SS Notes The "-i" option can be omitted, the first non-option string is treated as the input file. Since the "-c" option accepts an undetermined number of parameters it should be, if present, the last option on the command line. .SH "INTERACTIVE CONTROL" .TP \fBc, a\fP Will display the next/previous page with a cube transition effect. .TP \fBSPACE, PG-DOWN\fP Will switch to the next page with the programmed ("-c" option) effect. .TP \fBh, j, k, l, z\fP Will zoom into the predefined areas. .TP \fBg\fP Will undo any zoom. .TP \fBESC, Ctrl-q\fP Will exit pdfcube immediately. .TP \fBPG-UP, Left-Arrow\fP Will quick-switch to the previous page. .TP \fBRight-Arrow\fP Will quick-switch to the next page. .TP \fBf\fP Will switch full\-screen mode. .TP \fBCtrl-l\fP Will redraw the screen. .TP \fBCtrl-1, Ctrl-2, ..., Ctrl-9\fP Will jump to the page corresponding to the n-th programmed transition (if any). .TP \fB1, 2, ..., 9\fP Will jump to page 5*(n-1). .SH "EXAMPLES" .TP \fBpdfcube\fP foo.pdf Will display 'foo.pdf' in full-screen. .TP \fBpdfcube\fP foo.pdf \fB--bgcolor\fP 0,0,0 \fB--top-color\fP 0.6,0.2,0.2 \fB--transitions\fP 1 5 7 Will display 'foo.pdf' with custom background and cube color, it will also prepare three transistions for 1-2 5-6 and 7-8 page turns. .SH "BUGS" \fBpdfcube\fP(1) can view only PDF files with a 4:3 aspect ratio. This is a known "feature": the program is oriented to view presentations on a projected screen. .PP See http://code.100allora.it/pdfcube/report/ for the bugtracker of \fBpdfcube\fP(1) (you should obtain an account first). Or please report any bug to the author. .SH "AUTHORS" Written by Mirko Maischberger, and Karol Sokolowsky .SH "RESOURCES" Main web site: http://code.100allora.it/pdfcube/ .SH "THANKS" I'd like to thank the LILiK laboratory in Florence, Italy for having teached me the value of open-source and open-culture. .SH "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 for the Debian distribution. The 0.0.3 version is Copyright (C) 2008 Mirko Maischberger.