[OS X TeX] ANN: Présentation.app 3.4.0 released

[rb at rndblnch.org]

I am happy to announce the release of Présentation.app 3.4.

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Présentation.app is a presentation tool for pdf slides (e.g. produced using LaTeX and the popular beamer class) for Mac OS X.
You can download this release here: https://iihm.imag.fr/blanch/software/osx-presentation/releases/

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3.4 announce

This release consists mostly in a modernization of the code, upgrading the embedded PyObjC version from 8.5 to 10.3.2.
It drops support for python3.7 (and macos 12.4).

It also adds support for the 'palindrome' option of the LaTeX animate package.

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The app is signed since 3.0, the installer is notarized and stapled since 3.3, so that it's easier to install.

This is only possible by buying a membership to the apple developer program, at the cost of 99 USD a year.
In order to cover this expense, I have setup a buymeacoffee page where any user can contribute a small amount:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/rndblnch

Many thanks to the contributors of the past years:
Reinhard Z., Michael S., Richard K., David D., Luís Fernando S., Zoltán S., Carlo G., Antoine G., Hugo ?., Peter P., Lorenz G., Vitaly B., Martin R., Colin B., Nicola G., Martin S., Domenico G., Andrew G., Boris F., Muhammad A. A.-R., Daniel S., Philipp R., Diego F., Rob A., John E., Florian M., Antoine G., Pierre M., Chris ?, Stefan K., Fan D., Xinyu Z., Daniel D., Anthony B., Dorian B., Jeremy G. and anonymous donnors.

Special thanks to Octobus and Clever Cloud for offering a Heptapod forge supporting Mercurial to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
So many thanks to Ronald Oussoren for his amazing PyObjC project.

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Présentation most notable features are:

+ support for distant presentation/teaching
- inset of live video from the presenter
- white board and support for pen interaction
- support for more than 2 screens setups
- "spotlight", laser and large cursor mode on presentation screen

+ a presenter view displaying
- the current and next slide
- a timer
- the notes associated to the current slide

+ hyperlinks do work
- internal links (e.g. navigation links generated by beamer) work
- links to local video files open the video on the presentation screen
- links to other files are opened in a webview on the presentation screen

+ usable
- from the command line (as it is a Python script)
- from the Finder (as it accepts dropping a PDF file to launch the app)

More details at:
https://iihm.imag.fr/blanch/software/osx-presentation/

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-- 
Renaud