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Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

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Post by dang »

otabdeveloper1 wrote: post #20

Extremely low-quality project. The only things I care about in presentation software are: a) How do I export the presentation to some other computer? b) Will it even work on their ad-hoc configuration of hardware and software? Everything else is a distant second consideration. The JS framework used under the hood is like #100 on the list of things I care about.

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Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

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Post by em-bee »

tcc_42 wrote: post #70
alaithea wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love Deckset-- using it is like having presentation creation superpowers. But since it's OSX-only, I've moved to GitPitch, which is cross-platform and has the added benefit of hosting the slides. https://gitpitch.com/

I had to use gitpitch for one presentation only, so correct me if I am wrong, but with gitpitch you cannot see the resulting slides before you push them to the repo, right? We had more than 200 commits at the end of one day, 150 of them to solve minor layout problems... with a (feeled) round-trip-time of 10-20seconds, that became frustrating quite fast...

you could squash those commits, but i agree it would be better not to have them.

can you commit with --amend instead to avoid creating new commits every time?

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#83

Post by em-bee »

s09dfhks wrote: post #59

why use this over marp? https://yhatt.github.io/marp/

i have been using marp lately.

i really liked the live preview and the output to pdf.

i do prefer pdf over web-based presentations because they are easier to share without a webbrowser (just send a document) (and they can still be viewed in a browser).

most irritating was the fact that i could not use my preferred editor. i haven't checked all the recommendations here, but i'll be looking for a combination if something like markdown in vim with live preview in a browser or pdf viewer

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

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Post by em-bee »

i love how topics like these not only bring out a review of the tool in question, but also suggest other related tools for comparison.

for convenience, here is a list of all alternatives mentioned (in no particular order):

(i added a quick but incomplete review of key aspects of each tool. almost all are using markdown and support pdf export)

https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/ (reveal.js docker)

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#producing-slide-shows-with-pa... (export-to: S5 DZSlides Slidy Slideous reveal.js pdf ppt)

https://github.com/munen/p_slides (slidy2)

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/present (go-present-markup local-go-server "can't find documentation of how to actually use it")

http://slideshow-s9.github.io/ (commandline-tool browser-preview many-templates)

https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle (react-based presenter-mode local-node-server)

https://github.com/sinedied/backslide (docker)

https://gitpitch.com/ (online-service 'desktop version is docker based and not free')

https://yhatt.github.io/marp/ (electron-app live-preview)

https://github.com/jxnblk/mdx-deck (browser-preview)

https://www.deckset.com/ (osx-only not-free)

https://github.com/arnehilmann/markdeck#similar-projects

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#85

Post by tcc_42 »

em-bee wrote: post #83
s09dfhks wrote: post #59

why use this over marp? https://yhatt.github.io/marp/

i have been using marp lately. i really liked the live preview and the output to pdf. i do prefer pdf over web-based presentations because they are easier to share without a webbrowser (just send a document) (and they can still be viewed in a browser). most irritating was the fact that i could not use my preferred editor. i haven't checked all the recommendations here, but i'll be looking for a combination if somethi…

I am using markdeck with vim. Markdeck has an auto-reload, that means, every time you save your markdown or change something in your assets-folder, the web view gets reloaded automatically; so not really live preview, but auto-reload on save...

And markdeck has a standalone-exporter: it generates a single html file with all resources embedded (url-data, base64, ...); one file to send/open/view, but with working animations and the like (even the terminal session works)

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#86

Post by tcc_42 »

em-bee wrote: post #82
tcc_42 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had to use gitpitch for one presentation only, so correct me if I am wrong, but with gitpitch you cannot see the resulting slides before you push them to the repo, right? We had more than 200 commits at the end of one day, 150 of them to solve minor layout problems... with a (feeled) round-trip-time of 10-20seconds, that became frustrating quite fast...

you could squash those commits, but i agree it would be better not to have them. can you commit with --amend instead to avoid creating new commits every time?

That wouldnt help, I am afraid: the web hook of gitpitch starts on push to the github repo, so you _really have_ to push your change...

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#87

Post by atsaloli »

tcc_42 wrote: post #70
alaithea wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love Deckset-- using it is like having presentation creation superpowers. But since it's OSX-only, I've moved to GitPitch, which is cross-platform and has the added benefit of hosting the slides. https://gitpitch.com/

I had to use gitpitch for one presentation only, so correct me if I am wrong, but with gitpitch you cannot see the resulting slides before you push them to the repo, right? We had more than 200 commits at the end of one day, 150 of them to solve minor layout problems... with a (feeled) round-trip-time of 10-20seconds, that became frustrating quite fast...

If you pay for GitPitch Pro, you see your slides right away via GitPitch Desktop. (Plus the support from David is unparalleled.)

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#88

Post by atsaloli »

tcc_42 wrote: post #64
owaty wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pandoc can do pdfs too (via beamer)

Yes, but markdeck uses decktape and chrome headless... so your PDF is in fact a near pixel-perfect version of your HTML slides.

Yep! I just wasn't willing to run "curl ... | bash" on a corporate computer to install markdeck. I made a note to circle back to it, I still want to try it, the slides look slicker than those generated by pandoc with beamer which is what I use now to generate PDF presentations. my first choice was GitPitch but rendering PDFs doesn't work without using their web service and this content has got to stay on the private network.

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#89

Post by tcc_42 »

atsaloli wrote: post #88
tcc_42 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but markdeck uses decktape and chrome headless... so your PDF is in fact a near pixel-perfect version of your HTML slides.

Yep! I just wasn't willing to run "curl ... | bash" on a corporate computer to install markdeck. I made a note to circle back to it, I still want to try it, the slides look slicker than those generated by pandoc with beamer which is what I use now to generate PDF presentations. my first choice was GitPitch but rendering PDFs doesn't work without using their web service and this content has got to stay on the private…

So how would you like to install such a tool on a corporate device? Is docker an option In your case? Is downloading and reviewing the scaffold script sufficient (before actually starting it)?

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

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Post by gerald1248 »

The reason I use Markdeck for all presentations is the care that the author has lavished on the many, many integrations. Anyone can render to PDF, but few tools produce pixel perfect PDF you can hand to your audience afterwards. Not to forget CSS3 backgrounds, Vega Lite charts mixed with TeX formulas and DITAA - full support for anything the browser will put up with.
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