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PDFCube - 20th Anniversary Edition

PDFCube is a PDF presentation viewer with animated transitions, automatic slide timing and keyboard-controlled zoom. It brings cube rotations, page flips, shattering glass and smooth fades to slide decks from LaTeX Beamer and office suites.

It was born in a few sleepless nights before graduation in 2006 and, despite the horrible style it was written in, earned its authors some popularity and free beers. After a long time self-hosted on Subversion and Trac it moved to GitHub.

Twenty years of spinning cubes

The first line of PDFCube was committed in 2006.

For its twentieth birthday PDFCube was completely rewritten and in October 2026 moved in six days and eighteen releases to 0.9.2. It now ships every PDF transition, from blinds and page flips to shattering glass. The cube is still the star. It now runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and it is still loved by LaTeX Beamer users, who finally have a reason to set slide transitions.