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Ask HN: Presentation Software?
Ideally I wanted some wiki format -> HTML5 sweet animation generator, that also could output a PDF.
I looked at the ancient S5:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
But even Eric Meyers is back to using Keynote now:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/05/07/web-2-0-talk-html5-vs-flash/
What do you use for presentations at Conferences?
- alanh 16y agoKeynote can output PDFs. You may also want to check out 280 Slides: http://280slides.com/ http://280slides.com/
- philwelch 16y ago280 Slides is by 280 North, YC08.
- scw 16y agoI've used beamer on occasion and think its great, albeit because I use LaTeX elsewhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX) If you want to go the HTML5 route, I'm guessing pulling the relevant code out of the Google presentation highlighting HTML5 features would be a good exercise; source at: http://code.google.com/p/html5-slides/ http://code.google.com/p/html5-slides/ For pure wiki syntax, I'd go with Pandoc which allows conversion to both S5 and PDF from a variety of markup languages: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
- purp 16y agohttp://prezi.com/ http://prezi.com/ ... most interesting thing to come to presentations in a looong time. Check out their take on Pecha-Kucha: http://prezi.com/j9anrjn-gdwj/prezi-pecha-kucha-bw/ http://prezi.com/j9anrjn-gdwj/prezi-pecha-kucha-bw/ Danger is that you'll spend all your time futzing with the style and not put in enough substance.
- kashif 16y agoI find Prezi very nice - although it doesnt meet your wiki to html5 generation critieria. http://prezi.com/ http://prezi.com/
- fbuilesv 16y agoShowoff (http://github.com/schacon/showoff http://github.com/schacon/showoff), Markdown > HTML/PDF.
- plaes 16y agoAlthough not exactly the right answer, but it might give some of you a few ideas. Here's a presentation that WebkitGtk's maintainer did for GCDS 2009: http://webkitgtk.org/gcds.html http://webkitgtk.org/gcds.html And I use Beamer (Latex) myself because of the equations...
- augustl 16y agoI create and present with Keynote on iPad, works great. Before iPad, I used http://280slides.com/ http://280slides.com/ on my Thinkpad.
- esim 16y agoPrezi. I like their canvas style approach. You can really get the big picture that way. Although I kind of agree that it's easy to get lost in styling, I do think it's better that I get lost than my audience. It's a real attention-grabber, I know from experience.
- CyberFonic 16y agoIf you follow the "Present like Jobs" school, then Keynote is all you need. Of course, most people would rather futz with their animations than rehearse. check out: http://wziwyo.com/?p=177 http://wziwyo.com/?p=177