xPressent, the PDF slides remote and cheats

I have started working on a new project called xPressent.

As a teacher, I work everyday with PDF slides on a laptop connected to a projector. I used to have notes related to the slides on a printed paper. With xPressent, you can remotely control the slides on the projector, and see the slide preview and related notes on the IT screen.

xPressent is composed of a server side, a simple full screen PDF viewer using Python, Poppler and SDL, and a client side, the bluetooth remote control, that runs on Maemo Devices (there's also a compact .NET version, and a J2ME version coming).

To make it work, you create a .xpr file with the notes for the slides, with the same name of the .pdf file, and run the xpressent server on the laptop with the .xpr file as parameter. Them, you can start the remote client on the internet tablet, and connect via bluetooth to the server to change the slides and read the notes. The current slide and notes are sent over the bluetooth connection. Don't forget to edit the xpressent.conf file to add the remote bluetooth address to the list of known addresses!

You cand find more information here:

 https://devel.airadier.com/xpressent
 https://garage.maemo.org/projects/xpressent-maemo/

This project is on-going work. I hope to have maemo packages ready soon, but right now you can download the script and run it from command line, or using some launcher.

Some other interesting features, like drawing over the slides or virtual pointer from the remote are coming soon.

Hope you enjoy it!