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How do I change the the page view in fullscreen, in the Editor?

We now offer this as part of the navigation toolbar while in fullscreen mode, simply hover your mouse over the bottom right corner of the screen and the bar should appear, then click the Page Layout button:

Adding hotkeys to page view options.

On the Help tab, click Customize Toolbars.

In the resulting dialog, open the Commands tab. and search for the desired function (Single Page, Continuous, two pages, or two pages continuous).

Locate the fucntion, and click Properties:

Choose your keyboard shortcut then press the green check-mark to verify the shortcut. For this the example, we have chosen Ctrl+Shift+2 

Highlighted below, you will see that the shortcut is not conflicting with any existing keyboard shortcuts. 

Repeat these steps with each page view function you will need to switch between in fullscreen mode.

You can use this shortcut at any time. By entering full screen mode, and using it, you will see the desired view. 

**Note, most keyboard shortcuts function in full screen mode. For instructions on how to use all the features available for full screen mode, please see the following article:  https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgebase/455

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The ability to edit PDF (portable document format) files is a must for many businesses! The most well-known software for editing PDF files is Adobe Acrobat Standard/Pro, but this software is priced at a premium and has limited automated installation options. Instead, we have found the Tracker Software’s PDF-xChange Editor Plus is a great alternative for many of our clients. Since many of our clients have made the switch, we wanted to focus this article on some keyboard shortcuts within PDF-xChange Editor. These keyboard shortcuts are similar to the ones for Microsoft Office which we talked about in a previous article . The table below lists some common key combinations that can be used within PDF-xChange Editor on Windows. If you are using a Mac, these will not be an option for you.

Are you still looking for more tricks to use in PDF-xChange Editor?  Tracker Software has a fantastic online manual with a convenient search and helpful how to articles. To get to the Online Manual, open PDF-xChange editor and select F1 or you can click this link: https://help.tracker-software.com/pdfxe8/ .

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PDF-XChange Editor: Making Annotations in Fullscreen Mode

• by Kelvin Kathia
• April 29, 2021 April 29, 2021

PDF-XChange Editor like most readers includes a full screen mod e that offers a distraction-free reading experience. The mode can be activated easily using the F11 keyboard shortcut or the button next to the window control buttons (minimize).

You may however have noticed that once you activate the full screen mode it’s impossible to do any kind of annotations let alone select text. There are no tools in this mode, only the mouse pointer. Furthermore, the context menu doesn’t appear when you right-click instead it moves the document to the previous page while a left-click takes it to the next page.

The first time I encountered this behaviour I was quite irritated as I would imagine most people would. It effectively meant I couldn’t select or highlight text, make notes or do other annotations which forced me to switch back to the window mode.

Later on I decided to check the Preferences and that’s where I encountered something rather surprising: the full screen mode defaults to a Presentation Mode (à la PowerPoint). It now made all sense why the mode was behaving as it was.

Fortunately, we can disable the mode and allow annotations and other tools besides the mouse pointer.

How to Disable Presentation Mode

• Go to the Preferences by pressing CTRL+K .

• Under the Page Navigation section remove the checkmark from the Presentation Mode option.

Selecting Text and Making Annotations in Full Screen Mode

After disabling the presentation mode you’ll notice now that the full screen mode defaults to using the hand tool . Common sense may prompt you to switch to the window mode to select a different tool (e.g select text tool) however this won’t work.

Whatever tool you’ve selected in the window mode will always be overridden to the hand tool the moment you switch to the full screen mode. Fortunately, the context menu works in the mode and from it you can select some common tools like the Snapshot Tool, Select Text and Zoom tools.

The annotations one can do in this mode are only limited to text content. As such, you’ll first need to first switch to the Select text tool and then select the content you want to manipulate. When you right-click on the selected text you’ll find some annotation tools including:

• Highlight Text
• Underline Text
• Strikeout Text
• Replace Text
• Insert Text
• Add Bookmark
• Add Sticky Note

These few annotations should suffice for most people, however, if you need more options like Text Boxes/Call Outs, Stamps and Drawing tools then there’s no other way around it – you’ll just have to exit the full screen mode to get access to them.

Well there is a way. Try exploring the commands under customize toolbar option.

I can see the commands, but I’m not sure how to access them in fullscreen mode. There are no toolbars in that mode in my current version.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion, which works great by the way. However, I also like to annotate my slide during presentation, and since I’ve been using this application to mark my students coursework, I already set a custom shortcut for the pencil tool. Lo and behold, after turning off the presentation mode and try the shortcut, I was able to use pencil tool to annotate the presentation. Hope this helps to whoever needs it.

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How To Present a PDF Like a PowerPoint

May 2, 2024 by Hung Nguyen

Learn to present a PDF in full-screen mode like you would a PPT file or convert it to PPT for easy presenting.

You can present a PDF as if it were a PowerPoint presentation in two ways. You can either open a PDF and view the content in full screen or save the file as a PowerPoint. If you choose the latter, you can then open the file in Microsoft PowerPoint and present it as you usually would. Check out the full instructions for both methods below.

How To Present a PDF Like a PowerPoint Presentation

Open your pdf document with your pdf reader., click “view” and choose “enter full screen” or “slideshow.”, present as you usually would and navigate using the arrow keys., press the “esc” (escape) key to exit the slideshow when finished..

There are a few limitations to presenting PDF files like this: some media file types, such as animated GIF images, won’t work and will remain static in your presentation. You also can’t add speaker notes to PDF presentations. While we believe PDF is quite versatile, in this case, it might be better to convert the PDF to PPT format using our free converter.

How To Change a PDF to PPT To Present

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• Click “Download,” and you’re done.

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Once you have the PPT file open, you can present the data as you would normally. If you have an older version of Microsoft Office, you’ll have to click the “Slide Show” tab and choose “Play from Start” to start a presentation.

While you have a PowerPoint file open, you can also edit the content as you’d like. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is available within the PDF to PPT tool, where we’ll pluck the content of each PDF into an editable PPT file for your convenience. And while you’re on our blog, check out how to insert a PDF into a PowerPoint — learning new PDF and PPT-related tricks is always good!

We offer the most popular online PDF to PPT converter. A big part of our popularity comes from our simple and intuitive drag-and-drop interface as well as our range of practical tools to convert, edit, sign, protect, and lock PDFs and other documents. Of course, we also offer a tool to reverse this whole process and turn PPT back into PDF.

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Solutions for presenting PDF slides with presenter notes on second display [closed]

I made a presentation using the latex beamer class with notes. Now I have a problem displaying notes only on my display while presenting the slides to the audience using a projector. Beamer notes produce very wide pdf pages, each half page should be presented on its own display. A single page looks somewhat like this:

Currently I use the smaller display of my notebook for notes and the larger display for the presentation in my test setting. The second screen is extending the desktop. The screen order doesn't really matter but both displays have a different resolution. I don't know what the actual resolution of the screen/projector will be for when presenting.

Here are some applications I've tried. I the got fullscreen/window issues as described above if not otherwise explained.

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• somewhat promising; displays fullscreen on one screen while other screen is in window mode
• notes are more a whiteboard feature, can't be hidden to audience
• notes cant be saved

I also tried the default Ubuntu pdf viewer using virtual box. Unfortunately virtual full screen also shows only a single display.

Are there any solutions to display pdf slides in fullscreen on one display and notes about the current slide on another display?

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• 6 Just a remark: If you used PowerPoint, then it already has this mode, called Presenter view . This is simpler than your current complex solution. –  harrymc Commented Sep 27, 2011 at 13:12
• 1 How many features are required for making a presentation ? You might be underestimating PowerPoint. –  harrymc Commented Sep 27, 2011 at 14:45
• 1 @harrymc Not that many features on second though, mainly it's having a progress-bar like overview of the presentation, basically like a table of contents on (almost) every slide that highlights the current section. Also source code syntax colouring (rtf copy&paste would work, but not when linking files I edit externally). Not really required, but portability with pdf is better than ppt.I also just like to type more and click less. –  kapex Commented Sep 27, 2011 at 15:11
• 2 You might look at the free IguanaTex or the commercial TexPoint . –  harrymc Commented Sep 27, 2011 at 15:51
• 5 You can use github.com/pdfpc/pdfpc as pdfpc presenation.pdf -n right to achieve what you described. –  nijoakim Commented Apr 29, 2016 at 13:13

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You can achieve this under Linux with a combination of xrandr and impressive.py .

First use xrandr to set the screens' resolutions, e.g.:

where LVDS would be your laptop's screen and CRT1 the projector. You can verify your device identifiers and available resolutions by just running xrandr .

Once you have the screens set up, run impressive.py with the -g flag signalling the complete workspace size, e.g.:

Source: Phillip Merensky's blog .

Merensky's blog also points to a more complex example of xrandr usage for multiple-projector presentations .

I found a nice little tool called VirtualScreenMaximizer , which does exactly that. Works like a charm!

• Please read How do I recommend software for some tips as to how you should go about recommending software. You should provide at least a link, some additional information about the software itself, and how it can be used to solve the problem in the question. –  DavidPostill ♦ Commented Oct 27, 2016 at 20:34

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When the Full Screen tab is selected the following options are available::

Figure 1. Preferences Dialog Box, Full Screen Tab Selected

• The General settings determine parameters for full screen mode:

• Use the upper dropdown menu to determine what happens when documents request full screen mode.

• Use the lower dropdown menu to determine which monitor is used for full screen mode.

• Select the Stay awake box to prevent the computer from going into screensaver/sleep/hibernate mode.

• The Pages Navigation settings determine navigation parameters for full screen mode:

• Select the Exit by pressing 'Esc' key box to enable the use of the Esc key to exit full screen mode.

• Select the Show Pages Navigation Bar to enable the Page Navigation Toolbar when full screen mode is active.

• Select Presentation Mode to enable Presentation Mode when full screen is enabled. This is a unique mode that is designed for giving presentations. When it is enabled the following settings are active:

• Left-click moves to next page.

• Right-click moves to previous page.

• Press 'B' or 'W' to make the entire screen black or white.

• Press 'P' to pause/resume the automatic scrolling of documents.

• Commenting is disabled.

• Select the Loop after last page box repeat documents when the last page is reached and Presentation Mode is enabled.

• Select the Automatically go to the next page after box to enable the automatic page-browsing feature. Enter a value in number box to determine the rate of browsing.

• Select/clear the Show page border and shadow box as desired.

• The Appearance settings determine further options of the software when full-screen mode is enabled:

• Use the Background color dropdown menu to determine a background color when full screen mode is enabled.

• Select the Use solid background box set a solid background color in full screen mode.

• Select an option from the Mouse Cursor dropdown menu to determine the setting for the mouse cursor in full screen mode.

• The Page Transition settings determine the page transition settings:

• Select the Always use default transition box to use the transition determined in the dropdown menu immediately below.

• Select an option from the Default Transition menu to determine the page transition style in full screen mode.

• Use the Direction dropdown menu to determine the direction of the transition style selected in the Default transition dropdown menu.

Click Apply to apply changes and OK to save changes.

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How to Present a PDF like a PowerPoint

With Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can present a regular PDF in similar fashion to a PowerPoint presentation.

Format presentation

• Under the "Edit" tab, click "Preferences".
• Under the "Full Screen Navigation" Section, you can loop the presentation by checking the "Loop after last page" option.
• You can also set the "speed" of the presentation with the "Advance every [ ] seconds" option.
• It is recommended to leave the "Escape key exits" option checked in order to quit the presentation early.

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• Under the "View" tab, click "Full Screen Mode". This will start the presentation.
• In order to end the presentation before it's finished, press Esc

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