Apple - What PDF Viewer can be used to present slides on High Sierra?
Just a few days ago I have asked the same question at tex.stackexchange.com. User DG‘ has provided a couple of useful suggestions, which culminated in the following answer:
The delay in rendering pdfs with preview.app
can be avoided with the following apps (they are all available through homebrew
):
- Présentation.app:
brew cask install presentation
- pdfpc:
brew install pdfpc
- xpdf:
brew install xpdf
Additional Remarks by Daniel
- For those who prefer MacPorts: Currently MacPorts provides only the X11 versions, which do not work well for presenting full-screen mode. The
homebrew
variants are native. You can install them without doing any harm on your MacPorts setup. - The graphical
Présentation.app
and the console-basedpdfpc
assume a dual-screen setup and provide a presenter display with the next slide, elapsed time and so on. Both internally pre-render the PDF pages. Depending on the complexity of the slides (transparencies have quite an impact), this may take a while. However, the presentation output is superb. - Apparently,
xpdf
does not do pre-rendering. While it is fast in general, switching to a new slide causes flicker.
You might also want to check out SlidePilot.
Disclaimer: I am the developer of the app
The app is my interpretation of what presenting PDFs should look like on the Mac. I wanted the same superb presenter experience you have with Keynote but all the existing apps couldn't fulfill my needs. That's why I developed SlidePilot with a lot of additional features like broadcasting the cursor to the presentation screen (without having to turn your head) or covering the screen.
Feel free and take a look at the website and the docs, where all features are described in detail.