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Persuade

Simple presenter console for your PDFs, in your web browser.

Persuade allows you to get the same experience of Impress/PowerPoint presenter console in every web browser: you just need the PDFs of the slides, and you're good to go!

The project is released under the GNU GPLv3+ license.

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Features

Persuade currently has these features:

• Load slides from the local device, or any website allowing cross-origin requests
• Check the talk duration with the builtin timer, or turn it into a countdown
• External popup you can put in the projector to show the slides to the audience
• Most of the keyboard shortcuts of Impress/PowerPoint supported

Future plans

In the future, I may add the following features:

• Support for speaker notes
• Allow loading PDFs from websites blocking cross-origin requests

If you want to contribute on those, please comment on the issue before creating a pull request!

Remotes support

Persuade should work with any remotes simulating keypresses. Currently, it has been tested with the following hardware:

• LG Wireless Presenter R400

If you have any other hardware, and you tested it works, send a pull request!

Building the minified version

While you can directly use the source code in the src/ directory, it's advised to generate a minified build to optimize the size of the project. You need to have Python 3 and Virtualenv installed, then you can run to generate the build:

$ make -C src

The minified app will be located in build/app/.

Third party dependencies

Persuade depends on these external projects:

• Font Awesome 4 icons by Dave Gandy, SIL OFL 1.1 license
• Font Awesome 4 CSS by Dave Gandy, MIT license
• Fullscreen API Polyfill by Nicolas Le Gall, MIT license
• PDF.js by Mozilla Labs, Apache 2.0 license
• Snowflake by Pietro Albini, MIT license

The required files are bundled in the src/assets/vendor directory, along with the licenses.