# Cimbali/pympress

Pympress is a simple yet powerful PDF reader designed for dual-screen presentations

Repository: https://github.com/Cimbali/pympress
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pympress
Homepage: https://cimbali.github.io/pympress/
Language: Python
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: presentation, python, pdf-viewer, beamer, presenter, slide, poppler, projector, pdf-reader, gtk, vlc, pygi
Last push: 2026-03-29T16:38:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 56/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 74, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4003, "days_push": 157, "days_rel": 485, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1647, forks 108 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:16.367473+00:00)

## What it is
Pympress is a dual-screen PDF presentation tool that shows slides on a projector while giving the presenter a private view with notes, current and next slides. It supports embedded media via VLC or GStreamer, text annotations, and beamer's notes-on-second-screen mode.

## Use cases
- present a pdf slideshow on a projector with a presenter console
- show beamer slides with notes on a second screen
- play embedded videos and gifs in a pdf presentation
- give talks with a notes view showing current and next slide
- present libreoffice-exported pdfs with notes pages

## When to choose
- you present PDF slides (especially LaTeX beamer) on a dual-screen setup
- you need presenter notes, timers, and media playback in one tool
- you want a free, cross-platform alternative to Impress or PowerPoint presenter view

## When to avoid
- you need to edit or create slides rather than present them
- you need native PowerPoint/Keynote file support
- you only need a plain single-screen PDF reader

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: pdf-viewer
- domain: developer-tools, education, pdf
- platform: windows, python
- tags: presentation, beamer, presenter, dual-screen, projector, gtk, poppler, vlc, slides, linux, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- Cimbali/pympress (main) score 56

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:16.367473+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:45:16.474792+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Cimbali/pympress (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:16.367473+00:00, sha eb8c056b25b4)
  - homepage: https://cimbali.github.io/pympress/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:18:30.594256+00:00, sha 44136fa355b3)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pympress/json (fetched 2026-08-29T11:18:30.603084+00:00, sha 94b4d5db5846)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.