Cimbali, Thomas Jost, Christof Rath, Epithumia

The open-source collective formed by Cimbali, Thomas Jost, Christof Rath and Epithumia concentrates on nimble, specialist utilities that streamline academic and professional workflows. Their flagship program, Pympress, is a dual-screen PDF viewer engineered for conference rooms, lecture theatres and remote talks: it separates public slide output from a private control panel that shows timers, notes, annotations and upcoming thumbnails, letting speakers cue transitions, jump to any page or overlay a pointer without exposing the backstage interface to the audience. Written in Python with GTK, the application is cross-platform, accepts Beamer-produced presentations, respects embedded movies, and exposes keyboard shortcuts that can be remapped for clickers or custom controllers. Because the codebase is intentionally lightweight, it starts instantly, copes with 4K projectors, and runs from a USB stick, making it popular with scientists, teachers and corporate trainers who need a dependable, licence-free replacement for heavier proprietary presenters. Companion configuration files allow per-talk presets for window geometry, colour highlights and second-screen profiles, while command-line switches enable integration with LaTeX build chains or kiosk scripts. The publisher’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always fetch the latest upstream release, and can be installed individually or in unattended batches.