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I can't tell if this sarcasm or not. Clicking through 100 slides takes quite the effort, even if you're just skimming.

• saurik 6y ago
  Yeah. So, I did click through it; it took forever, and was exceedingly annoying. I found myself wanting to go back a few times, and that just not being worth the effort... since I am not the one giving this presentation--which is already a problem... slides exist to support a speaker, and I am not the speaker! either this should be a video or an article, not some disconnected set of slides (from which I can't imagine I am actually getting the connections between the content)--I have absolutely no use for a "one slide at a time" UI: either all 100+ slides of this should be rendered one after another so I can quickly scroll down through it, or (preferably) this shouldn't be a PDF file so I can decide how I scroll.
  • ghaff 6y ago
    >slides exist to support a speaker In principle I agree with you and, for most of the presentations I give, I make the slides available but they're pretty useless. That said, a lot of people find information presented in the form of a slide deck more approachable than a multi-thousand word written report.
    • saurik 6y ago
      I am mostly responding here because I saw a critical typo in my comment I wanted to leave a fix for somewhere: in "shouldn't be a PDF file" I wanted to say it SHOULD be a PDF file, as PDF files are great for supporting both slide scrolling and page-by-page scrolling. That aside, I'll note that if someone wants a slide deck of thoughts somehow, this is still the wrong storage format for this information: having all the slides one after another on the page would provide the same enforced thought clumping while allowing more random access to the content.