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 seltzered_ » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 6:20 PM UTC

LarryMade2 wrote: post #2

How about Sozi? its an extension for inkscape - http://sozi.baierouge.fr/

This is pretty fascinating, the about page sums it up http://sozi.baierouge.fr/pages/10-about.html .

Guessing it may also be possible to do some of the heavy lifting in another vector drawing app (e.g. sketch) then finish the presentation aspects in Inkscape/Sozi

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

#52

Post by analog31 » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 6:23 PM UTC

A jupyter to power point converter would be huge. I work in a typical organization where power point is expected, but my results come out of jupyter.

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

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Post by senko » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 6:25 PM UTC

Crosses some reqs (tho doesn't have full features object editing), handy if you want interactive presentations https://awwapp.com/

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

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Post by cher14 » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 6:29 PM UTC

Hope you take a look at https://www.breakdown-notes.com

It has a pretty big map (though not infinite) for you to add shapes and text to, has support for adding and editing paths, plenty of tutorials and you can make slides in the paid version (free 2 week trial). Disclaimer: I made Breakdown Notes

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

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Post by Ruud-v-A » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 6:41 PM UTC

While it does not solve your use case, others here might find it interesting: I built a domain-specific language for designing slides (https://github.com/ruuda/pris#readme). It is superficially similar to LaTeX/Beamer/TikZ, but it has first-class graphics that are reusable. More motivation in this blog post: https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2017/04/27/a-language-for-desig.... It is still basic, but I have used it a few times to do slides nonetheless.

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

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Post by INTPenis » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 6:42 PM UTC

massaman_yams wrote: post #6

I don't know if this satisfies your infinite canvas requirement, but I've used https://slides.com/ quite a bit. Similar to reveal.js. edit: as pointed out elsewhere in the thread, "slides.com is a front-end for reveal.js, made by the authors of reveal."

I've used slides.com with great success.

I love the websocket feature that let's you use your phone as a slide changer. It feels very professional but free.

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

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Post by jacmoe » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 6:51 PM UTC

alekratz wrote: post #27

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.

It's more polished because the (almost) entire team of OpenOffice left and created the LibreOffice project, AFAIK.

Same as what happened with MySQL -> MariaDB.

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

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Post by minimaxir » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 6:57 PM UTC

Keynote for iCloud (the web-based version of iWork's Keynote) has close-to-feature-parity with the macOS/iOS versions.

Additionally, Keynote Live allows you to play a presentation and have viewers join via a URL, where they can view the presentation in sync on any device (macOS/iOS/Web), with feature parity to normal Keynote presentations.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206205

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

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Post by Jarwain » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 7:01 PM UTC

After some googling, I found out how one can enable Prezi classic on an account that only has Prezi Next.

Make sure you're logged into your Prezi account, then go to this link: https://prezi.com/instant-prezi An editor or a 404 page may appear. Either way, Prezi classic is now enabled. You can access your dashboard again on the top right and switch between the two products in a drop down on the left.

Source: https://prezibase.com/activate-prezi-classic-account/

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

#60

Post by phalangion » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 7:03 PM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #48

org-mode with beamer output. For me there are a couple of large benefits: - You can include LaTeX directly in documents and preview LaTeX inline in Emacs. This is not restricted to LaTeX math, but any kind of LaTeX environment. I often use this for including TikZ figures. - You can include snippets of code in your document, execute them inline and include the results in your presentation. For instance, you can use th…

You can also use org-mode to create reveal.js slide decks. It gives you the benefit of editing in plain text with a pretty nice looking output.