install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install dspdfviewer

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%

sudo port install dspdfviewer

MacPorts ports tree · office/dspdfviewer/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Debian aptverified · 92%

sudo apt install dspdfviewer

Debian stable package indexes · dspdfviewer · source: deb.debian.org

overview

Package summary

Dual-Screen PDF Viewer for latex-beamer

Project links

Commands and aliases

dspdfviewer

history

Project history and usage

dspdfviewer is Danny Edel's dual-screen PDF presenter for LaTeX Beamer talks, especially PDFs produced with Beamer's notes-on-second-screen layout.

Project history

The README describes a deliberately narrow tool: split a Beamer-generated PDF into left and right halves and render the audience and speaker-note views on separate screens. The public GitHub release history shows the mature 1.13 through 1.15 line active in 2015 and 2016.

Version 1.14, published on 2015-12-01, was a notable portability release adding Windows, Qt5, and translation support. The final published GitHub release in the observed series, 1.15.1, followed on 2016-09-13 as a bugfix release for 1.15.

Adoption history

dspdfviewer spread through academic and LaTeX presentation workflows rather than a broad desktop-app audience. It is packaged by Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, and MacPorts, which matches the needs of conference speakers and TeX users on Unix-like systems.

Homebrew analytics showed 610 installs over the preceding 365 days during this batch, unusually healthy for a small, old presenter utility.

How it is used

The usual workflow is to build a LaTeX Beamer PDF with speaker notes, then run dspdfviewer on the resulting PDF. The README documents navigation keys, screen swapping, blanking the audience screen, and a `-f` mode for using ordinary PDFs.

Why package nerds care

dspdfviewer matters to package nerds because it is a compact domain-specific GUI that survives through distro packaging: it solves one Beamer/presenter workflow well, has stable old releases, and depends on desktop PDF/Qt plumbing that package maintainers keep integrating long after upstream release activity slows.

Timeline

2015-08-01: v1.13 was published in the GitHub release history.
2015-12-01: v1.14 was published with Windows, Qt5, and translation support.
2016-04-05: v1.15 was published.
2016-09-13: v1.15.1 was published as a bugfix release for v1.15.
2026 batch check: Homebrew still packaged v1.15.1 and showed 610 installs over the preceding 365 days.

Related projects

LaTeX Beamer is the presentation system whose notes-on-second-screen output dspdfviewer targets.
Qt is the desktop toolkit family highlighted by the v1.14 release notes.
General PDF viewers overlap for ordinary slides, but dspdfviewer is specialized around presenter notes and dual-screen splitting.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 12 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`dspdfviewer`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version1.15.1

manager updated2026-05-18

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv1.15.1

https://github.com/dannyedel/dspdfviewer

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:dspdfviewer
Version	1.15.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dspdfviewer
Homepage	https://dspdfviewer.danny-edel.de/
Repository	https://github.com/dannyedel/dspdfviewer
Upstream docs	https://dspdfviewer.danny-edel.de/
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Source archive	https://github.com/dannyedel/dspdfviewer/archive/refs/tags/v1.15.1.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-05-18T15:17:26-04:00
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	boost, cairo, fontconfig, freetype, gettext, glib, jpeg-turbo, libpng, libtiff, openjpeg, poppler-qt5, qt@5
Build dependencies	cmake, gobject-introspection, pkgconf
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	dspdfviewer
Version Scheme	0
Revision	26
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	yes
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

dspdfviewer 1.15.1+git20230427.d432d8d-1

Dual-Screen PDF Viewer for LaTeX-beamer

https://dspdfviewer.danny-edel.de

sudo apt install dspdfviewer

Section: text
Architecture: amd64
9 dependencies
1 optional deps
normalized package name match
Matched by: Dspdfviewer

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: dspdfviewer from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Ubuntu apt95%

dspdfviewer 1.15.1-1.1build5

Dual-Screen PDF Viewer for LaTeX-beamer

http://dspdfviewer.danny-edel.de

sudo apt install dspdfviewer

Section: universe/text
Architecture: amd64
9 dependencies
1 optional deps
normalized package name match
Matched by: Dspdfviewer

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: dspdfviewer from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

MacPorts95%

dspdfviewer

sudo port install dspdfviewer

normalized package name match
Matched by: Dspdfviewer

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: office/dspdfviewer/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/dspdfviewer.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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