# Install dspdfviewer with Homebrew, apt, MacPorts Dual-Screen PDF Viewer for latex-beamer. Version 1.15.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-18. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:dspdfviewer ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install dspdfviewer ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install dspdfviewer ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: office/dspdfviewer/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install dspdfviewer ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: dspdfviewer from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:dspdfviewer - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.15.1 - **Source summary:** Dual-Screen PDF Viewer for latex-beamer - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-05-18T15:17:26-04:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - dspdfviewer (cli) - dspdfviewer (alias) ## Dependencies - boost - cairo - fontconfig - freetype - gettext - glib - jpeg-turbo - libpng - libtiff - openjpeg - poppler-qt5 - qt@5 ## Build dependencies - cmake - gobject-introspection - pkgconf ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.15.1 - Package-manager updated: 2026-05-18 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/dannyedel/dspdfviewer - Upstream latest detected: v1.15.1 (current) ## 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 Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## 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:** - **Deprecated:** yes - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - dspdfviewer - 1.15.1+git20230427.d432d8d-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: dspdfviewer from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Dual-Screen PDF Viewer for LaTeX-beamer | https://dspdfviewer.danny-edel.de - Ubuntu apt - dspdfviewer - 1.15.1-1.1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: dspdfviewer from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Dual-Screen PDF Viewer for LaTeX-beamer | http://dspdfviewer.danny-edel.de - MacPorts - dspdfviewer: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: office/dspdfviewer/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Media and graphics packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/media-graphics-tools/) - Matched media, image, audio, video, or graphics metadata. - [Productivity CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/productivity-cli-packages/) - Matched curated productivity category metadata from av.db. - [cairo](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cairo/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [fontconfig](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/fontconfig/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - 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Shared terms: cairo, cli, desktop, gettext, glib. - [fontforge](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/fontforge/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cairo, cli, fontconfig, freetype, gettext. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/dspdfviewer.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/dspdfviewer.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph