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Does it provide the following? * Presentations can be exported as PDF. * Presentations can be downloaded as a single stand-alone HTML file for offline present

Does it provide the following? * Presentations can be exported as PDF. * Presentations can be downloaded as a single stand-alone HTML file for offline presentation. * Presentations can be imported/exported from/to Powerpoint. * Collaborative editing.

jeremysizle 7y ago
Yep, I have just disabled export to PDF earlier as there was a rendering bug that will be fixed soon. There is a patch coming in the new year with real time colab, export to PPT, local presentation modes and quite a few more features
- threatripper 7y ago
  Is the local presentation mode a single file that can be transferred via USB stick to another PC that has no internet connection?
  - jeremysizle 7y ago
    The local presentation mode will be a joint release with a Desktop app that can be used without internet access, it won’t include portable files at this stage but it’s on our roadmap.
    - threatripper 7y ago
      Dependence on an App is not good for long term viability. Before joining any new ecosystem I check if there is a clear route to transition out of it in the long term. People like me are allergic to lock-in-effects and provider/service-dependencies that could lock oneself out of ones own data if the provider shuts down. Given that export to a common format like pptx works great I will consider this software. The paradox here is that the better the export functionality works the less people will actually need it.
est31 7y ago
> single stand-alone HTML file for offline presentation. TBH HTML isn't a really good format for stuff like this, as HTML is text-only. Same goes for HAR. The moment you want to embed large images/video you run into size problems. It would be really nice if browsers supported some kind of archive that contains multiple resources like images, wasm files, etc, that would all be accessible by the browser if you open it. file protocol is basically being deprecated by chrome for stupid security reasons: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1200 https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1200
- threatripper 7y ago
  > TBH HTML isn't a really good format for stuff like this, as HTML is text-only. Same goes for HAR. The moment you want to embed large images/video you run into size problems. Is this really a problem for up to 100 MB? In my experience that would already be a huge Powerpoint presentation including a lot of detailed images or some smaller videos. Most presentations I handle are below 100 slides and below 10 MB. If it goes beyond that, there will also be other problems. Nobody likes to handle a 5 GB presentation. Encoding the binary files as BASE64 would add some overhead, indeed, but having a presentation as a single file that can be played by any modern browser on any modern device would provide tremendous usability benefits.

jeremysizle 7y ago

Yep, I have just disabled export to PDF earlier as there was a rendering bug that will be fixed soon. There is a patch coming in the new year with real time colab, export to PPT, local presentation modes and quite a few more features

threatripper 7y ago
Is the local presentation mode a single file that can be transferred via USB stick to another PC that has no internet connection?
- jeremysizle 7y ago
  The local presentation mode will be a joint release with a Desktop app that can be used without internet access, it won’t include portable files at this stage but it’s on our roadmap.
  - threatripper 7y ago
    Dependence on an App is not good for long term viability. Before joining any new ecosystem I check if there is a clear route to transition out of it in the long term. People like me are allergic to lock-in-effects and provider/service-dependencies that could lock oneself out of ones own data if the provider shuts down. Given that export to a common format like pptx works great I will consider this software. The paradox here is that the better the export functionality works the less people will actually need it.

est31 7y ago

> single stand-alone HTML file for offline presentation. TBH HTML isn't a really good format for stuff like this, as HTML is text-only. Same goes for HAR. The moment you want to embed large images/video you run into size problems. It would be really nice if browsers supported some kind of archive that contains multiple resources like images, wasm files, etc, that would all be accessible by the browser if you open it. file protocol is basically being deprecated by chrome for stupid security reasons: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1200 https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1200

threatripper 7y ago
> TBH HTML isn't a really good format for stuff like this, as HTML is text-only. Same goes for HAR. The moment you want to embed large images/video you run into size problems. Is this really a problem for up to 100 MB? In my experience that would already be a huge Powerpoint presentation including a lot of detailed images or some smaller videos. Most presentations I handle are below 100 slides and below 10 MB. If it goes beyond that, there will also be other problems. Nobody likes to handle a 5 GB presentation. Encoding the binary files as BASE64 would add some overhead, indeed, but having a presentation as a single file that can be played by any modern browser on any modern device would provide tremendous usability benefits.