Very informative presentation, I went through it just for the heck of it and it was very interesting visually. A note on Slide 21 - the text says 4 Maximum Types of Shapes but only 3 are displayed.
How to make awesome diagrams for your slides
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Re: How to make awesome diagrams for your slides
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#13What software do HNers use to make good diagrams? We have one suggestion for TikZ so far, which looks nice, but I don't really want to get out the TeX hammer for every little diagram.
My slide decks are always in PowerPoint because I usually need to make some complex technical animations that are impossible to do in Latex. So then I just use PowerPoint's shapes, etc. to do it.
(I can't wait for some web-based presentation software so I can finally ditch Powerpoint, but right now, with the extremely limited palette of animation ability on all of them, I'm forced to stick with PowerPoint.)
For papers, posters, and other static media, I use Inkscape, which I love. And every once in a while, for a system architecture diagram that I need to crank out really fast, I'll use Dia, which is much less flexible, but ideal for that task.
Re: How to make awesome diagrams for your slides
#14My Android App, Edgy, allows you to make graph diagrams suitable for pre-press then using GraphViz on the desktop, and that can be really useful for describing complex relationships.
Re: How to make awesome diagrams for your slides
#15What software do HNers use to make good diagrams? We have one suggestion for TikZ so far, which looks nice, but I don't really want to get out the TeX hammer for every little diagram.
My slide decks are always in PowerPoint because I usually need to make some complex technical animations that are impossible to do in Latex. So then I just use PowerPoint's shapes, etc. to do it. (I can't wait for some web-based presentation software so I can finally ditch Powerpoint, but right now, with the extremely limited palette of animation ability on all of them, I'm forced to stick with PowerPoint.) For paper…
I always used whatever real animation tool (Anim8or, Blender, python+svg+ffmpeg) I was most comfortable with and rendered the animation to a non-looping GIF. Embeddable almost anywhere.
Re: How to make awesome diagrams for your slides
#16What software do HNers use to make good diagrams? We have one suggestion for TikZ so far, which looks nice, but I don't really want to get out the TeX hammer for every little diagram.
I just used inkscape for the first time last night, worked out pretty well. See the first slide here:
http://www.iobound.net/iocopy-talk/
Another thing I experimented with for the first time is doing all the slides in html / css / js. The jQuery-Presentation plugin [1] works as advertised, and with css there was considerably less hairpulling when it came time to start tweaking layouts and positions. The content for each slide is written in markdown. You can see all the source for the presentation here [2].
Re: How to make awesome diagrams for your slides
#17What software do HNers use to make good diagrams? We have one suggestion for TikZ so far, which looks nice, but I don't really want to get out the TeX hammer for every little diagram.
If you find yourself out of other options, and Inkscape is crashing on you or you don't like the UI, you can try OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice Draw. It seems to work pretty well for flowcharts, though it doesn't come with very many symbols.
Re: How to make awesome diagrams for your slides
#18What software do HNers use to make good diagrams? We have one suggestion for TikZ so far, which looks nice, but I don't really want to get out the TeX hammer for every little diagram.
I used LibreOffice Impress over Ubuntu for that presentation.
I try to use the best tool for the job though.
Two weeks ago I had to make a code-based introductory presentation and I used showoff instead ( https://github.com/schacon/showoff ) since it comes with syntax highlighting and the slides are just a text file. It took me maybe a couple hours to learn the ins and outs, but then it was easy.
I've heard that the Mac app is good, too, but I haven't used it yet.
Re: How to make awesome diagrams for your slides
#19This slide deck was brought to you by Enrique García a.k.a. Kitito[1], who's also the author (among other things) of the excellent "middle class" library, a class-based object system for Lua, and PÄSSION library collection, an OO-layer built on top of the LÖVE game framework. [1] https://github.com/kikito [2] http://love2d.org /shameless plug from a fellow löver.
Hi pygy! :D I plan to do other awesome stuff
Re: How to make awesome diagrams for your slides
#20Two tips: Use colors in /addition/ to other indications. Roughly ten percent of males are red-green colorblind and cannot easily distinguish colors that contain these colors (e.g., purple = blue + red = BLUE to them). Also, projectors are usually pretty crappy at colors. "If PowerPoint ever automatically chooses a smaller font for your text, you have too much on the slide." -- somebody wise
Yes, this is something I should have written explicitly. Your advice is spot on, I should have included a "conclusion" in the colors section saying just that.