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Presenter View

Presenting plays your deck full-screen inside Molkit without leaving the editor. Molkit assembles the same Reveal.js document that the HTML export produces, loads it into a full-viewport overlay, and hands control to the keyboard. Everything described here also works in the exported file.

Start presenting

In presentation mode, press F5 to present from the first slide, or Shift+F5 to present from the current slide. The same two commands are in the Present menu as Present and Present from Current.

Before the first slide appears, Molkit re-snapshots every chemistry region, renders equations and plots, and measures each slide. Slides whose content overflows the 960 by 540 frame are scaled down to fit (no smaller than 65 percent). The overlay stays hidden until fonts finish loading, so there is no visible reflow.

  • Right/Down or Space advances; Left/Up goes back. Fragments (build steps) reveal one per press.
  • The mouse wheel and touch swipes also change slides. Clicking a slide does not advance; use the on-screen arrow controls instead (these can be turned off in Presentation Settings, along with the progress bar, slide numbers, looping, and auto-advance).
  • Esc opens the slide overview grid. Press Esc again from the overview to end the presentation and return to the editor.
  • While you present, the editor’s slide sorter follows the live slide, and clicking a sorter thumbnail jumps the presentation to that slide.

Presenter toolbar

Move the mouse to the bottom edge of the screen to show a toolbar with previous/next, overview, a slide counter, and annotation tools. It hides itself after a few seconds.

  • Q toggles a laser pointer dot that follows the mouse.
  • D toggles drawing. Pick from five pen colors in the toolbar; [ and ] cycle brush size; Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y undo and redo strokes.
  • E toggles the eraser; X clears the current slide’s drawing.
  • Drawings are kept per slide, so they are still there when you come back to a slide.
  • Esc exits the active tool before it does anything else.

Speaker notes and timer

Press S during playback to open the speaker notes window. It shows the current slide position, an elapsed-time clock that starts on the first slide change, the notes you wrote in the content panel, and the number of the next slide (a text label, not a rendered preview). It stays in sync as you move through the deck.

If you set a timer length in Presentation Settings, a thin progress bar runs along the top of the screen, shifting from green to yellow to red as time runs out and pulsing when you go over. Click the bar to pause or resume it; hover to see elapsed and remaining time.

Animations during playback

Chemistry animations follow each slide’s animation mode. In auto mode they restart from the beginning every time you enter the slide. In click mode they start paused, and each advance press plays the animation to its next breakpoint before slide navigation resumes. Build-step fragments that are always visible in the editor preview reveal step by step here.

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