Presenter

Presenter is a tool for presentations. While the slides are shown on the beamer, you control the presentation via an iPad while seeing your notes and highlight important things on the slides.

Requirements

You must have the following programms installed:

• On Mac OS X: /Applications/Inkscape.app/
  • An image converting tool
• On Mac OS X: convert (preinstalled)
  • pdfLaTeX (Only for creating & downloading, Mac OS X only)
  • Inkscape (Only for creating & downloading, Mac OS X only)
• On Mac OS X: /usr/texbin/
  • A PHP-Webserver
• For example XAMPP (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows)
  • A modern Webbrowser (eg. Safari 6, Firefox)
  • An tablet PC (eg. iPad)

Usage

Preperation

1. Downloading this to your htdocs folder (eg. /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/)
2. Configuration
   1. Open http://localhost/presenter/tools or where ever use saved this on your PC
   2. Enter a (secure) password
   3. Upload a PDF (your slides) and a notes.txt (your moderator notes, see below)
3. Connect your tablet PC
   1. Get your IP-address (eg ifconfig)
   2. Open this IP on your tablet and navigate to the presenter
   3. Enter the predefined password and log in
4. Connect guests (optional)
   1. Repeat steps 3.1 - 3.2 with every guest

Presenting

• To get the next resp. the previous slide, swipe left resp. right or press the button
• Drawing:
  • Press the pencil button to start drawing freehand.
  • Press the eraser to switch to erasing mode (click on drawings to remove them)
  • Press the button again to return to normal mode
  • Press the free space to size the palm rest, a non-active space.
• Laser pointer
  • Press the cursor icon to activate the laser pointer

Settings

This only works an the computer where the localhost is running

• Access http://localhost/presenter/tools or where ever use saved this
• You can change your password, upload slides and notes, clear all hand-written annotations and download your annotations

The LaTeX interface

• We provide a LaTeX API to easly design your LaTeX beamer presentation.
• For details see the LaTeX API

Internals

The Notes have to be seperated by "\n> ".