Present a PDF in meetings: Presentation view in the viewer

To present a PDF in a meeting or on a big screen, open the publication in the Viewnamic viewer and choose Presentation with the view button in the top bar – or press Alt + P (Mac: Option + P). The viewer switches to fullscreen and shows one page at a time, as large as the screen allows, on a black background. The arrow keys turn the pages, and Esc ends the presentation.

Start Presentation

1. Open the publication at the page you want to start with – Presentation begins there.
2. Click the view button in the top bar – it shows the current view, for example Scroll view – and choose Presentation. Or hold Alt (Mac: Option) and press P.

On tablets, phones and in narrow windows, Presentation is in the menu at the left of the top bar. All views: Views in the viewer.

What your audience sees

• One page at a time, whole and as large as the screen allows, on black.
• No top bar – it hides itself, so its handle is not shown. Move the pointer to the top edge of the screen – on a touch screen, tap there – to show it.
• No “powered by” or “More from” badge and no line with the privacy policy and imprint.
• No zoom: the zoom buttons are off, and zoom gestures do nothing. To show a detail larger, zoom in Scroll view (see Reading a publication).

Move through the pages

• Next page: →, ↓ or Page Down. Previous page: ←, ↑ or Page Up. In Presentation these keys work without Alt, and a presentation remote (clicker) that sends them works too.
• Quick presses are not lost: the viewer goes straight to the page you end on.
• To jump to a page, type its number into the page field of the top bar and press Enter. Then click the page so that Page Up and Page Down turn pages again.
• Clicking, tapping or swiping on the page does not turn it.

Videos, 3D models and other content

• Videos and 3D models do not start by themselves and show no buttons. On such a page, the first press of → (or ↓, Page Down) starts them: a video plays with sound if Sound is on for it, and a 3D model turns if Auto rotate is set – otherwise the next press starts the turning. While they run, the next press goes to the next page.
• Going back, ← (or ↑, Page Up) first stops a started video or model, then removes it from the page, then goes to the previous page.
• Audio, slideshows and links work as in the other views. Audio set to keep playing on other pages goes on in the bottom right corner when you turn the page; other audio pauses.
• Click dummies are not shown – switch to Scroll view for them.
• Switching to Presentation closes a floating video window.

End Presentation

Press Esc or Alt/Option + F, or click the fullscreen button in the top bar (in narrow windows, in the menu): fullscreen and Presentation end together, and the viewer shows the current page in Scroll view. Choosing Scroll, Grid or Magazine view also leaves fullscreen – unless you had switched it on before starting Presentation.

When Presentation is missing or does not start

• Publications that open in Magazine view do not offer Presentation: they are laid out in double pages, Presentation shows single pages. See Magazine view with page-flip effect.
• Presentation needs the browser’s fullscreen. Where there is none – in Safari on iPhone, for example, or in an embed whose website does not allow fullscreen – the viewer shows Scroll view instead. Viewnamic’s embed code allows fullscreen. Where a website does not allow it, the fullscreen button opens the publication in a new tab, where Presentation works on a computer.

Tips for meetings

Presentation fills the screen the browser window is on: for a projector or a second screen, move the window there first, then start Presentation. In a video call, share that screen.

Presentation is part of every plan.