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Figma Slides
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Re: Figma Slides
#172Funny, I was just wondering today why Google doesn’t have an infinite canvas product. All I want is Google Slides with an infinite canvas. Products like Figma, Miro, and Excalidraw are all great, but they’re not integrated into Google Workspace like Docs/Slides. I like comments, tagging users, auto-completing links to other docs with their title, etc.
Google slides has other pretty major problems for presenting things. Notably if your corporate identity requires the use of a specific font, then its not possible. Figma is a lot better in this regard, but the pricing is aggressive for the design part.
I worked somewhere where they went through this and got a custom font added: https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuite/comments/170jgfl/upload_cust...
Pretty disappointing and convoluted though.
Re: Figma Slides
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, some people should be shamed into being better. I was shamed into using more advanced operating systems and it ended up with me having a hugely important and detailed understanding of operating system design. This has been hugely beneficial not just to me but to every person I worked with since. I would not have elected to do this and not edged out of my comfort zone if I had not been shamed. I was resistant to c…
Some people get abused into being better, but it's not the only way.
Shame != Abuse
Re: Figma Slides
#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
I cannot stand the lack of SVG support in Google slides. When I worked on the hardware team there I hated that I had to import my polished vector block diagrams into slides as PNGs. There was a 10+ year old bug thread with 100s of +1s for SVG support in Docs. IIRC the reasoning behind the delay was security concerns - seemed like a bit of a cop out, but what do I know?
There’s still one painful workaround to get SVGs into Google Slides! I actually posted it in that bug thread at Google and then ended up with people attacking me like I was on the team and claiming the workaround is good enough. Anyway, here’s how to do it: Download Inkscape and then convert your SVG to EMF (some PowerPoint vector format I think). /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape file.svg --export-f…
Wow! Thanks for this!
This is the second time that the EMF file format has come in handy for me. In college I used to export my Matlab plots as EMF so they'd import into my Word documents all crisp - it was the only format which enabled that (please don't tell the LaTeX folks I did my lab reports in Word).
Re: Figma Slides
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm the CTO of Pitch, so obvious bias here, but have you tried our product? Would love to know what you miss from Impress when using Pitch.
I don't know if I'm interested on giving you a free UX consultation Your product to me seems to be just another freemium presentation product meant for sales pitches , a target market I'm not a part of. For that reason, your product doesn't really strike me as any more interesting than Figma's offering, even if it is technically superior. Figma's has a considerable edge too, as I already trust their web-based design…
No worries! Didn't mean to ask for free work, thought since you were trying out Figma Slides you might on the hunt for a new tool.
Re: Figma Slides
#176Figma invested years in this super powerful real time canvas, only using it for UX mocks is not tapping its full potential
What use case(s) would leverage the potential more?
Re: Figma Slides
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve haven’t worked at a company where Figma is used “correctly”. It’s mostly used as a canvas to dump designs, slideshows, flowcharts and diagrams. For example, N/Shift+N moves forward/backward a frame. I’m yet to see a Figma file where frames are correctly ordered or laid out, rendering this feature almost useless.
FYI - there are plugins that can help you easily order your frames by position or in other ways that make sense (I think the one I use is called Sorter). But that's another example of the sort of hacky 'workaround' that should have first-class support if enough people need it.
Ah interesting. I only have a viewer account, so I imagine I wouldn’t be able to use such a plugin.
Re: Figma Slides
#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a dev, I say more power to them. I support people using better tools for things. Maybe if we kept this up we’d all be using good things, and not stuck with MS Teams and Google slides because little Timmy in marketing chews crayons and can’t figure out how to use anything but the most basic software.
Timmy in marketing knows things you cannot fathom
Such as the taste of crayons?
Re: Figma Slides
#179Tried it, wrote a long comment here, but seems I accidentally discarded that. Here's the gist of it; The product does not from other presentation tools except in that it is integrated with Figma. Only the best parts of Figma, the design things, are very much restricted unless you pay for a subscription that includes design mode. There are still some bugs, and animation support it underwhelming and slide transitions d…
I'm the CTO of Pitch, so obvious bias here, but have you tried our product? Would love to know what you miss from Impress when using Pitch.
I don't know if you've changed it, but when I tried used Pitch last year I couldn't zoom in on a slide, which was such a basic use case I needed while putting slides together that I stopped right there.