Thank you, I look forward to trying this. I have previously used an automatically updating pdf-viewer and periodically export the document, to achieve similar functionality. But this appears to be a much more comfortable solution.
Kind Regards Benjamin On 10.05.2016 10:29, Axel Kittenberger wrote: > Dear list, > > attached is a patch that adds presentation mode capabilities to Xournal. It > opens a second window in full screen mode on another monitor with the zoom > level fixed to one. The standard window on the monitor with the pen enabled > is zoomable. This is intended to be used as teaching tool as replacement to > a blackboard in larger lecture halls. When simply mirroring the monitors I > figured one has to write quite big on the pen enabled monitor to be able to > write cleanly and thus wouldn't fit much content on a screen. With this > mode, one can zoom in on the control monitor to comfortably write cleanly, > while the studends see the whole page, also comfortable as it is projected > to a big overhead screen. > > It is an ugly hack I do not request to be applied, but I want it to serve > as discussion base how to make this in a clean and portable way. > > The main issue is that many calls to the canvas are direct, so it needed to > patch all the places that interact with the canvas at all. Since there is > also discussion to be able to replace the canvas implementation, would it > be a good idea to encapsulate a little more, to have "xo-canvas" as > pseudo-object class, that all places call, and where it could decide to > actually draw on two canvases, or to change the canvas implementation with > only having to alter a few places? > > The second issue with this patch is more simpler pragmatic hacking. I > didn't bother to add options in the menu, it's simply another binary to be > called that will fail if it cannot detect two monitors. But thats less an > issue to add, when the former things are cleaned up. Some of the zooming > stuff is a little odd, since I didn't fully understand the code in > interaction with PDF, I changed it so the resolution looks good on the > presentation monitor, which is the important thing in this mode > > Kind regards, Axel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who > bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM > restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the > apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xournal-devel mailing list > Xournal-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xournal-devel >
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