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

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

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Post by EngineerBetter » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:17 PM UTC

Numberwang wrote: post #3

reveal.js wins every time.

+1 for reveal.js. I use it for several professional training courses that we deliver, as well as conference presentations.

Given that it's HTML/Markdown, it's great to use in a team with version control. I know folks that have extended it to allow SVG animations.

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

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Post by jd3 » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:17 PM UTC

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/present

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

#23

Post by inamberclad » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:18 PM UTC

No one has mentioned LibreOffice?

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

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Post by CJefferson » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:26 PM UTC

Numberwang wrote: post #3

reveal.js wins every time.

slides.com is a front-end for reveal.js, made by the authors of reveal. Nowadays I just write reveal.js directly, but it was nice to have a GUI when I was first getting started

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

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

Numberwang wrote: post #3

reveal.js wins every time.

The thing that always got me with reveal was nested slides and whether I was supposed to nav with the arrow keys or not. Turns out if you ONLY hit the space bar it will visit the slides in-order. I guess.

But I think the OP was looking for a zoomable surface, which reveal doesn't offer.

http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/

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

#26

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

\latex with beamer.

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

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Post by alekratz » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:29 PM UTC

inamberclad wrote: post #23

No one has mentioned LibreOffice?

I'll second LibreOffice. It's much more polished than OpenOffice, and it's quite functional and mature. It has definitely gotten the TLC that OpenOffice so desperately needed about 10 years ago. I'm not sure if it has the infinite canvas that the OP is looking for, but it's definitely nothing to sneeze at.

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

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Post by BeetleB » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:35 PM UTC

Org Mode + Beamer (a LaTeX package).

Although personally, these days I tend to use Reveal (using org-reveal).

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

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Post by lookACamel » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:35 PM UTC

josephernest wrote: post #20

nikofeyn wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ;)

What about sketchboard.io?

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

#30

Post by jMyles » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 4:36 PM UTC

I want to suggest that WYSIWYG is a really bad formula for presentations.

For my part, I really like Hovercraft (makes impress.js using RST): https://github.com/regebro/hovercraft

If all you are looking for out of WYSIWYG is ease, then I think something like this is just as easy.