Strange behavior with \section frames about beamerpresenter

[stiglers-eponym]

This is due to the way how beamerpresenter detects and handles overlays.
BeamerPresenter by default tries to handle overlays in presentations separately. Overlays are pages that show different versions of the same slide, e.g. pages generated with \begin{itemize}[<+->] ... \end{itemize}. The detection of overlays relies on page labels. Consecutive slides that have the same page label are interpreted as overlays of the same slide. There are no further checks to verify if these are overlays. In your PDF the first and second page have the same page label ("1"). Thus beamerpresenter considers these to be different overlays of the same slide. The preview always shows the next slide, not the next overview. The next slide is the one with label "2" (the third page). In the thumbnail overview only the last overlay of each slide is shown.

To avoid these problems there are two possibilities:

1. Configure beamerpresenter to ignore overlays. Mainly you need to adapt the GUI configuration file (gui.jon). Removing every entry with key "overlays" should be sufficient.
2. Change the PDF such that the section page has an own slide label.

[symphorien]

Maybe you could detect sections as starting a new slide, as sections are declared in the TOC of the pdf?

[stiglers-eponym]

Maybe you could detect sections as starting a new slide, as sections are declared in the TOC of the pdf?

Good idea! I'll try that.

[stiglers-eponym]

Should be fixed now. Pages with an own TOC entry always start a new slide. Thanks for the idea!

[symphorien]

thank you very much!