Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#11

Post by frantzmiccoli » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

rnhmjoj wrote: post #7

http://impress.github.io/impress.js

If some people are still using impress I am dropping this small library I made a few years ago.

http://frantzmiccoli.github.io/Chillin.js

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#12

Post by nikofeyn » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:01 PM UTC

josephernest wrote: post #9

BigPicture might be what you're looking for: http://bigpicture.bi/demo * Infinite canvas * Infinite zooming * WYSIWIG * Demo * Opensource: https://github.com/josephernest/bigpicture.js If you zoom on some vegetables here http://bigpicture.bi/Legumes you'll find the recipe :)

that big picture website is hardly usable on an iPad.

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#13

Post by aw3c2 » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:02 PM UTC

frantzmiccoli wrote: post #11

rnhmjoj wrote: post #7

http://impress.github.io/impress.js

If some people are still using impress I am dropping this small library I made a few years ago. http://frantzmiccoli.github.io/Chillin.js

That is so annoyingly slow that I closed the tab after "completing" the first 2 slides.

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#14

Post by redmattred » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:06 PM UTC

Overhead projector + transparencies

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#15

Post by Jaepa » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:06 PM UTC

Spectacle is pretty nice. Supports 3rd party extensions. Supports markdown. Split presenter and presentation views. Themes.

https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#16

Post by twovi » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:07 PM UTC

I use Marp, quick and dirty. But it allows for Markdown to PDF presentations.

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#17

Post by pksadiq » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:09 PM UTC

Numberwang wrote: post #3

reveal.js wins every time.

There is an Emacs org-reveal[0] package that shall help you use it like WYSIWYG.

[0] https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal/

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#18

Post by pksadiq » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:13 PM UTC

rnhmjoj wrote: post #7

http://impress.github.io/impress.js

I have had issues with impress.js when my laptop's resolution was different from the projector's.

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#19

Post by JoBrad » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:13 PM UTC

Sway is good. Very different than PowerPoint.

https://sway.com/

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#20

Post by josephernest » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:13 PM UTC

nikofeyn wrote: post #12

josephernest wrote: post #9

BigPicture might be what you're looking for: http://bigpicture.bi/demo * Infinite canvas * Infinite zooming * WYSIWIG * Demo * Opensource: https://github.com/josephernest/bigpicture.js If you zoom on some vegetables here http://bigpicture.bi/Legumes you'll find the recipe :)

that big picture website is hardly usable on an iPad.

Mobile not supported for now.

But on the other hand, there's nearly no equivalent tool available nowadays ;)