App of the week: PDF Cube
July 28th 2007
I just found this little app browsing for PDF software in my Debian aptitude repository contents.
In short, PDF Cube displays PDFs in full screen, adding Compiz-like cube transitions from slide to slide if we want. The following YouTube video shows how it works:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=AscU72HOwgM]
You can notice the mixed regular/cube transitions, as well as the five zooming options used in slide 4.
By the way, I have started the Wikipedia article for PDF Cube. I think this little program deserves to be in the Wikipedia.
Incidentally, the above is the first video I upload to YouTube! :^)
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DanX on 22 Feb 2008 at 3:34 am #
HI!! I AM FORM VENEZUELA!! I CREATED A PRESENTATION WITH POWERDOT IN LATEX..but I USE WINDOWS (no LINUX). CAN I USE PDFCUBE STILL?? AND HOW DO I USE THIS PACKAGE IN WINEDT??..
THANKS??
isilanes on 22 Feb 2008 at 9:36 am #
¡Hola DanX, encantado de tenerte por aquí!
Unfortunately, according to the PDFCube page (http://code.100allora.it/pdfcube) you need Linux to run PDFCube. Maybe it runs on Cygwin… I don’t know (I don’t use Windows if I can avoid it, which means that I don’t use Windows at all).
Think of PDFCube as Acrobat Reader (or Evince, or Xpdf, or Kpdf in Linux): it is simply a program to display PDFs. It doesn’t matter where they come from, and PDFCube has nothing to do with the PDF creation step. It just takes a PDF and renders it.