[Tex/LaTex] nice solution to get a “presenter mode” for Latex presentations

Question

I really like the way Keynote and MS Office (and also OpenOffice & similar) support a presentation mode that displays the current slide, the next (and maybe previous) slide, the elapsed and current time, and also any notes attached to the slides on one screen and the presentation itself on the beamer/second screen.

It enables me to give good, professional presentations without having to know everything by heart (I suck at that).

I found a project which does something similar, but I am looking for alternatives, especially OS-independent would be great. Not having to create 3 different PDFs is a boon.

Any hints?

Answer 1

I think pympress comes somewhat close to what you want. As it is written in python, I'd assume that you can run it on any platform -- I know it works under Linux.

If you want to display notes, use the following to display them on the right:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\setbeamertemplate{note page}[plain]
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=right}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{test}
hello
\note{say "hello" now}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

and then pympress will render only the left or the right half of the pdf in the different windows.