Impressive: improve your Linux presentations

Massage gun is an application for visualize may be made by each PDF document or folder images as if it were a slide presentation, in which each sheet is a page of the document. It is a program written in Python that can be run in Windows, Mac and Windows environments. GNU / Linux.

Impressive itself is not a presentation editor, but rather a presentation viewer (handles images and PDF). Very easily add transitions and highlight or zoom effects. It was very useful to me, because now I can assemble the presentations with Inkscape (sheet by sheet using a base one), save them in PDF and then present them with Impressive.

Advantages

• Presentations are much more customizable.
• It is lightweight and cross-platform.
• There is no need to install it and it only weighs a little over 10mb, which is very useful if you have to pass the presentation on a windows computer. More than anything because I have had some compatibility problems (minor, but that can leave you paying) between Impress and PowerPoint.

Disadvantages

• Animations cannot be included within the sheets (filmstrips, slides, what do I know what to call them).
• They are more difficult to edit because you first have to edit the source file (either Impress or Inkscape SVGs) and then convert them to PDF.
• Some may get annoyed that it does not have a graphical interface to configure it, so you have to do it from the terminal in Linux or from Start -> Run -> cmd -> OK in windows. However, if you are going to use the default options, there is a Graphic interface to upload the files.

Use

Once installed, I opened a terminal and run:

impressive FILE OPTIONS

where FILE is the path to the PDF file you want to open (or to the folder with images) and OPTIONS is one or more of the following list:

-h list of options.

-l list of possible transitions.

-t TRANSITION is to choose the (if there are several they are separated with commas) types of transitions, where TRANSITION is one of the names in the list above.

-d TIME stipulates a time for the presentation and shows a bar at the bottom, which grows larger as time passes and turns yellow when the time is reached and turns red as one exceeds by more 25% of the established time. Very useful, especially for practice! TIME is the time in hours, minutes and seconds (hh: mm: ss, you can only set the minutes and seconds mm: ss).

-a SECONDS indicates the time to which it will automatically go from sheet to (this option seems suicidal to me, but I saw several who use it). SECONDS is the number of seconds to wait until moving on to the next slide.

-q is similar to -d, but since it does not stipulate times, it simply progresses as the presentation progresses, and gives an idea of ​​how far to go. Does not work if -d is activated.

Installation

On Ubuntu and derivatives:

sudo apt-get install impressive

On Fedora and derivatives:

yum install impressive

In Arch and derivatives:

pacman -S impressive

Source: Taringa