Re: [orca-list] pympress and orca

[Peter Rayner <prayner unimelb edu au>]

Krishnakant Mane writes:
> Firstly wish to know what did you use to make the presentation?
>
> Is it some thing like latex-beamer or some other package?
Yes, the beamer class in latex. 
> secondly, is there a way to get some other formats into pympress?
Do you mean other formats than pdf or other formats than beamer? pdf
looks pretty well baked in but I think there's nothing determining how
you get there. The method I'm using to get text notes (rather than the
default pdf) on the presenter's screen does rely on capabilities in
the pdflatex package though.
cheers
Peter

> On 13/01/20 3:56 pm, Peter Rayner via orca-list wrote:
> > A while ago I asked about tools for two-screen presentation that might
> > work well with orca. I've almost found one, pympress
> > (https://github.com/Cimbali/pympress.git)
> > With two screens it will display a "content" screen for the audience
> > and a "presenter's" screen for the presenter.
> > In particular it has an annotations mode where pdf annotations on a=20
> > pdf page are displayed in an annotations area on the presenter's
> > screen. These are visible to orca. for the curious I attach a simple
> > latex file which generates such a thing. To test this build pympress,
> > (I installed it with the conda packaging system)
> > generate the pdf with
> > pdflatex pympress-demo
> > run it again to remove some latex warnings
> > pdflatex pympress-demo
> > then
> > pympress pympress-demo.pdf
> > You will need to turn on annotations mode in the configuration menu.
> > The first time I needed sighted assistance for that but I bet I
> > could have changed a config file somewhere.
> > I managed to find the annotations with my braille display and change
> > the pages with the space bar on the display. This is surprisingly
> > close to what I need.
> > The main remaining problem is that orca doesn't *seem* to update the
> > annotations as I change page and also that, on drawing the new page,
> > orca doesn't know to jump to the annotations area (why should it of
> > course). =20
> > This might be a gtk question but is there anything I can call to
> > attract orca's attention to a particular bit of the screen?=20
> > If it's any help here is the method that renders the annotations:
> >     def add_annotations(self, annotations):
> >         """ Add annotations to be displayed (typically on going to a new =
> slide).
> >         """
> >         prev_annots =3D self.scrollable_treelist.get_model()
> >         if prev_annots:
> >             prev_annots.clear()
> >         list_annot =3D Gtk.ListStore(str)
> >
> >         for annot in annotations:
> >             list_annot.append(('? ' + annot,))
> >
> >         self.scrollable_treelist.set_model(list_annot)
> >
> >
> > self.scrollable_treelist is a widget constructed by a call to a
> > Gtk.Builder instance. I'm perfectly happy to change the way pympress
> > is displaying these annotations e.g. to a Textview... what is source
> > code for after all.
> > So my main question is how to render these annotations in such a way
> > that orca will automatically jump to the annotations area when each
> > new page comes up. Of course if that turns out to be impossible then a
> > single keystroke that would accomplish the same thing would be ok too.
> > thanks in advance for any help and, of course, I'll share the result
> > if I can make it work.
> > rgards
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Krishnakant Mane,
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