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Show HN: Slide – an open-source plain text presentation maker
- geraldbauer 10y agoGreat to see more text to presentation makers. May I highlight the free (open source) Slide Show (S9) [1] presentation maker. What's different? Offers many themes e.g. reveal.js, deck.js, impress.js, Shower, S6, G5, etc. [2] Cheers. PS: Try online [3] PPS: The command line also include a --takahashi switch e.g. lets you use One // Two // Three (for breaking slides) [1] http://slideshow-s9.github.io http://slideshow-s9.github.io [2] https://github.com/slideshow-templates https://github.com/slideshow-templates [3] http://tryslideshow.herokuapp.com/ http://tryslideshow.herokuapp.com/
- freekygangster 10y agoReminds me of http://tools.suckless.org/sent/ http://tools.suckless.org/sent/
- unusximmortalis 10y agoAny demos
- zserge 10y agoNot really, but here's what I've just made on my phone in five minutes (don't think of it as of a "serious" presentation, I just wanted to show how exported slides look like): http://www.slideshare.net/SergeZaitsev/slide-201606051659 http://www.slideshare.net/SergeZaitsev/slide-201606051659 The raw PDF is available on Google Drive - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bztexa2TJWdcdlZXRk1MSTVoNjQ https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bztexa2TJWdcdlZXRk1MSTVoNj... The text I typed on my phone to make this presentation is: #SLIDE #make a presentation (even if you got no time to make one) content *is* important #Takahashi #method • short text • big font • many slides @http://www.magic4walls.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/two-lines-between-black-and-white-circles-minimalism-wallpaper.jpg 140% top minimal #opensource http://github/trikita/slide #Feedback #appreciated! The theme is the default white-on-black theme.
- wingerlang 10y agoYou absolutely should have examples on the website.
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- MichailP 10y agoAnybody knows whats the catch with MacBook owners plugging their own laptops directly to projector during conference presentations, while others use already available common laptop and just transfer their ppt? It seems a bit snooty :) Although there are benefits, your ppt is not made available to everybody.
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- LeoNatan25 10y agoProbably using Keynote instead of PowerPoint. While Keynote can export to PPT, the result is not satisfactory. Usually Keynote presentations are exported as PDF instead.
- MichailP 10y agoIs Keynote that superior to MS PowerPoint?
- joesb 10y agoFonts on Mac and Windows are not the same, and export process does not always export everything correctly.
- LeoNatan25 10y agoTrue, and I think neither PPT or PPTX can embed fonts in them, so the result is subpar, while a PDF can embed fonts, but cannot embed the transitions.
- extra88 10y agoPowerPoint for Windows can embed fonts, the Mac version cannot. PowerPoint's cross-platform support is still a shitshow. Embedding a video on one platform and presenting on another is unlikely to work, especially now that QuickTime for Windows is end-of-lifed so one platform is even less likely to have those codecs. I think it's still possible for the bullet glyphs to not always match (set them to empty circles on one platform, get displayed as daggers on the other), though this is less common than it used to be.
- evacchi 10y agoThis is nice. A bit OT: on the subject of presentation tools, I'm struggling to find something that suits me. I really like Deckset[0], but found it sometimes limiting. For instance, I found that very few themes suite my style of presentation; and I often wish I could choose different color palettes, or left-align the text in a centered layout (e.g. when using bullet lists) I generally dislike HTML-based presenting tools; I do not like the idea of using the browser; the PDF export is usually hit and miss, and I would not risk going to a venue with broken slides. I have also tried to experiment with (La)TeX. Unfortunately I find LaTeX very boilerplate-y, and the de-facto standard for presentations, Beamer, is not easy to customize; even the most modern themes are designed with lots of text in mind, and I'd like Deckset-like layout with little text, many headings/large fonts (sometimes more than one section in one slide) and mostly source code. I have experimented with `lecturer.tex` and even plain TeX [1]. The idea would have been to use it as a compilation target for Markdown (maybe using Pandoc). Unfortunately I could not find a satisfying way to typeset source code with syntax highlighting in plain TeX [2], and also working with modern fonts (TTF/OTF) in TeX is generally a pain (e.g. lecturer.tex doesn't play well with XeTeX; LuaTeX on the other hand is slightly less convenient with fonts) [0] http://www.decksetapp.com/ http://www.decksetapp.com/ [1] https://twitter.com/evacchi/status/738018333228978176 https://twitter.com/evacchi/status/738018333228978176 , https://github.com/evacchi/lecturer-playground https://github.com/evacchi/lecturer-playground [2] http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/312249/listings-for-plain-tex http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/312249/listings-for-p...
- C0d3r 10y agoI'm working on something that given a markdown file with a specific marker "---" splits it into slides and opens your browser with an impress.js version of your slides. Is this something that interests you? The project is private but I may open source it sooner. Also, written in Python
- zserge 10y agoThere is also Remark.js that converts Markdown into HTML slides - https://github.com/gnab/remark https://github.com/gnab/remark Also, I'm working on an HTML/JS Slide version - just download it and edit HTML contents. It uses the same markup as in Android Slide and no build system is needed, just edit, press F5, see how it looks like. https://github.com/trikita/slide-html https://github.com/trikita/slide-html
- znpy 10y agoI recently gave a talk and crafted my slides using the good old LibreOffice Impress. Everything went smoothly and I only had some minor scratches with code highlighting. I am always amazed by how much technical people underestimate office suites (MS Office and LibreOffice) and reinvent the wheel every month or so.
- LionessLover 10y agoBlank sheet syndrome. It simply is several orders of magnitude easier to work on well-known problems than to first find a new problem nobody else has even thought of yet. For the same reason I prefer refactoring ("optimizing") my code again and again instead of implementing things on the TODO list...
- zserge 10y agoSlide can be an option for people with different mindset - like some people prefer Markdown for documentation, while others are happy Word or Writer. Also Slide is a mobile app, so it's suitable for last-minute presentation makers, who do it on a plane, when using a laptop may be inconvenient.
- aembleton 10y agoI find editing of a slide on Powerpoint or Impress to be cumbersome. I'm going to take a closer looks at this Slide tool but I currently use Reveal.js [1] I can just open up the HTML on any browser, no need to install some specific application. I can edit the file in a text editor and do a Ctrl+F to find any piece of text to change. Overall I just find it simpler. Also, I usually just want an image and some text. When I see presentations done well in Powerpoint with arrows and parts animated, it is very impressive and I'm sure that would be harder to do in React. I just find that for technical presentations I find it distracting more than anything else. 1. http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/ http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/
- johannes1234321 10y agoMy main issues with impress are that I like a Text based Format which give nice diffs between slides and that I like to copy slides from one presentation to another, probably using a different style. This always Breaks in impress.
- Gys 10y agoReminds me of the Golang Present tool which also works with a simple plain text file: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/present https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/present
- LionessLover 10y agoOthers may (will) see it differently, and obviously it depends on context - different things need different presentations - but I can't stand when people have text slides. You are already talking - seeing exactly what you say or the gist of it in text makes one of the two superfluous. Just yesterday I watched a JSConf presentation that I actually ended up sharing that I still found infuriating for the first 7 minutes: The speaker said exactly the sentence (plus verbal decorations, meaning no additional content, just more words) that he also showed on slides. A new slide, a new sentence. (This is the one: "Emanuel Kluge: Go Offline with Service Workers - JSUnconf 2016" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6oPEEyjNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6oPEEyjNQ) I think a lot of presentations would gain a lot if the power went out. Imagine yourself in a round of people and you explain your idea to them. While common the handling of your smartphone or laptop during a conversation or explanation often is much more of a distraction than useful. Obviously there are plenty of examples where you do need them when you want to show something concrete like code or the thing you are talking about (unless it's a common object everybody already knows), but especially "idea and concept presentations" often are better off without the visuals. And please don't add jokes just because you heard that you should. I try to create a presentation by using "just me". And then only add other stuff if it's really necessary.
- zserge 10y agoThanks, I understand your point, and I sincerely don't want it to become a thread of infinite disagreement. But text slides can be helpful. I often use just text. I rarely use images (no kittens or meme picures, images are good only if they really illustrate what you're saying). My slides are just text, lists and short code blocks. (for the company meetings I use whiteboard instead of slides more and more often. I illustrate what I speak about in real time and keep people's attention. And I illustrate only when I see people don't follow my words). People are good creatures, but we are so easily distracted. If someone missed what I just said and I have text slides - he may look at a slide and get the idea. Also, people are bad a multitasking. If you are saying one thing and slide describes something additional or even different - people will lose their focus. If your audience could close their eyes and not fell asleep - they would be able to get 100% of what you are telling them. But they keep their eyes open. Their eyes focus on you, or their neighbors in the audience, on their phone screens or watches etc. It distracts. Having large, short, clear slides keeps their focus on what you're saying. So right, it all depends on the audience, how they are interested in your presentation topic and how well you perform on the stage.
- escherize 10y agoI ctrl+f'd for org-reveal, and didn't find it so I'll give it a plug. I write org-mode files (kind of like a richer version of markdown), and use org-reveal and emacs' publishing system turn them into slide shows like [1] this: (pic: [2]). The best part about the workflow is including code snippets using org mode's add source block, which allows me to edit code in the usual mode that I edit code with. Also org-reveal uses emacs' code highlighting settings to do code highlighting. [1] http://escherize.com/rethinkdb_talk/ [2] http://take.ms/FHrR0
- lgas 10y agoI didn't see any .org files in that repo, do you have them available anywhere? I'd love to see specifically how it's done.
- escherize 10y agoSure, here's a link to the repo: [1]. I followed the guide in the org-reveal repo to get it working, I'll find it, hang on... Found it: [2]! Happy hacking! [1]: https://gitlab.com/escherize/talks/tree/master/cljsfiddle [2]: https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal
- timvdalen 10y agoReally interesting tool, the PDF export seems to work great as well. I had not heard of the Takahashi method. I might use it for some informal talks or as a presentation prototyping tool.
- jonaf 10y agoAt first, I thought this was a terminal version of Powerpoint, akin to mdp[1], which has been my favorite. (I actually use mdp over powerpoint/keynote on my laptop at work these days, since I can checkin the markdown, write the presentation easily, and spend zero time on all the formatting garbage.) I do not work in marketing (can you tell?). [1] https://github.com/visit1985/mdp https://github.com/visit1985/mdp
- masukomi 10y agohow does someone make a presentation app and a) not have a presentation about it b) not have any presentations made with it as examples?
- zserge 10y agoThanks for the feedback! Slide is not something we're selling or trying to make profit of (in any form - no ads, no spying, no analytics, open source). We made a few presentations with it for internal company meetings, but that was mostly just text that I find very boring to share. Below in this thread there is an example of a slide text, PDF and SlideShare upload. It should give an impression of how it looks like and how it works. I agree that a presentation on the web site would make more sense, but I can't think of a good idea for the presentation, while some fake artifical example is not much different from what you see on the screenshots. Finally, once you open the app - it starts with a quick tutorial which is a presentation itself. It was supposed to be a quick start for new users, as well as an example.
- ams6110 10y agoThere's also MagicPoint, a rather old system but still famously used by OpenBSD folks for a lot of their presentations, e.g. http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2015-pledge/mgp00001.html http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2015-pledge/mgp00001.h... Warning, one slightly NSFW slide in that link.