
Remote Control Navigation
The Listen to Remote Control feature allows one to use the remote control to navigate documents. When the feature is activated there are two ways to navigate:
- Normal window mode
- Fullscreen (slideshow) mode: The PDF content view fills the screen. Keyboard shortcuts are still available as is the contextual menu. Fullscreen mode is automatically entered by pressing the play button on the remote. To exit fullscreen mode double click the play button.
The following commands are available:
- Left button: moves to previous page, click and hold to jump to first page.
- Right button: moves to next page, click and hold to jump to last page.
- Plus button: Click to zoom in. Double click to increase the delay between slides by one second. (By a quarter second if the delay is less than one second. Only applicable while in play mode.) Click and hold to increase the system sound volume by 5%.
- Minus button: Click to zoom out. Double click to decrease the delay between slides by one second. (By a quarter second if the delay is one second or less. The minimum delay is one quarter second. Only applicable while in play mode.) Click and hold to decrease the system sound volume by 5%.
- Play/Pause button: Click to start or stop playing the document. Playing always starts from the page currently shown. If fullscreen is not active when the play command is issued, fullscreen mode is automatically activated. Double click to enter fullscreen mode with playback paused at the current page. If fullscreen mode is active exits fullscreen mode. Click and hold to turn on autoresizing in the content view.
- Menu button: Quadruple Click to exit PDFClerk Pro.
The volume commands are particularly useful while playing a document, using PDFClerk Pro as a kiosk, to allow changing the sound volume (e.g. background music) without needing to exit the presentation mode.
Rotating pages for sideways fullscreen view
To maximise effective use of screen real estate it may be desirable when presenting documents in fullscreen mode to rotate the pages by 90 degrees so that the contents appear upright when the screen is placed on its side. This is best done before entering fullscreen mode:
- Select all pages in the page list and rotate them left or right as appropriate.
- Set the view to Fit Width (command-0).
- Set the view to display Single Sheets and turn of Continuous for the best experience. (You may also prefer to turn off Page Breaks, since the page shadow will be incorrect when the screen is on its side).
These command can also be issued when in fullscreen mode, using the keyboard shortcuts if the page list had focus when fullscreen was entered: all pages can be selected with command-a and rotated with the left or right rotate command.