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

I've put together Slide Show (S9) [1] that lets you use plain text with markdown formatting convetions for putting together your slides / talks. Incl. a starter tutorial / repo. For infinite canvas (prezi-style) you can use the impress.js theme/template pack [2], for example. For wysiwig use your (visual) markdown editor of choice :-)

[1] http://slideshow-s9.github.io [2] https://github.com/slideshow-templates/slideshow-impress.js

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

#37

Post by hayksaakian » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 5:00 PM UTC

Google slides is pretty good and free, I'm surprised nobody mentioned it already

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

#38

Post by geraldbauer » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 5:01 PM UTC

Numberwang wrote: post #3

reveal.js wins every time.

FYI: Slide Show (S9) also has a reveal.js template/theme pack so you can write your talks / slides in plain text with markdown formatting conventions. See https://github.com/slideshow-templates/slideshow-reveal.js

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

#39

Post by duality » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 5:02 PM UTC

Google Slides (https://slides.google.com)

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

#40

Post by geraldbauer » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 5:04 PM UTC

rnhmjoj wrote: post #7

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

FYI: Slide Show (S9) also has a impress.js template/theme pack so you can write your talks / slides in plain text with markdown formatting conventions. See https://github.com/slideshow-templates/slideshow-impress.js