When I export a beamer
presentation, I get a .pdf file. Now I want to present it slide by slide like a powerpoint slideshow presentation, but I'm not sure what the best way to do so is. I can't find a feature that allows me to open up a slide to fit the whole screen and then click through my presentation with the space bar. Is there a feature like this somewhere?
P.S. I looked through Is there a nice solution to get a "presenter mode" for Latex presentations?, but this seems too complex (i.e., I just need a "click the space bar to go from one slide to another" kind of advice).
Best Answer
Almost any PDF viewer have in the view menu a "Full Screen Mode", "Presentation mode" or something similar,as well as shortcuts as
Ctrl+L
(Acrobat Reader),F5
(Evince) orCrtl+Shift+P
(Okular).Just search in the menu.But if you want start in this mode to avoid delays in front of the audience, you can use the option
pdfpagemode=FullScreen
of thehyperref
package (already loaded by the document class):This way, assuming that you open the PDF with Acrobat Reader (e.g.:
acroread file.pdf
) it should be showed in the whole screen withoutCtrl+L
, although this and others viewers asokular
will ask for confirmation the first time. Others asxpdf
simply ignore this option. Others asevince
simply do the job. Others asimpressive
(really a presentation tool, not a simple pdf viewer) show any PDF in full screen mode, with or without this option.This is the usual behavior in presentation mode with any PDF viewer (space bar = next page).