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Funny, 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,

Funny, 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.

dijit 2y ago
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.
- dbg31415 2y ago
  Even when you pay for enterprise, Google support will say things like, “Just change your brand font to use a Google Font!” It’s pretty awful and arrogant.
  - dijit 2y ago
    I understand a large amount of the technical and legal reasons for this, but I agree. It hurts my position greatly as an advocate of their services internally and leads to us having to use Powerpoint anyway.
- dbbk 2y ago
  Object sizing and alignment is also garbage, barely functional, and has not been fixed in decades.
- ec109685 2y ago
  I worked somewhere where they went through this and got a custom font added: https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuite/comments/170jgfl/upload_custom_font_otfwoff_to_gsuite/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuite/comments/170jgfl/upload_cust... Pretty disappointing and convoluted though.
SkyPuncher 2y ago
They do, but it’s not easy to use.
Andrew_nenakhov 2y ago
Google had something called Jamboard that kinda fits the description. But Google being Google, it was recently discontinued.
- azangru 2y ago
  Jamboard was never an infinite canvas. It was a very awkward thing that didn't allow you to select multiple items at once (or if it did, I never discovered how), or to expand the canvas to accommodate more content.
  - te_chris 2y ago
    Agree. The fixed canvas size in Jamboard is incredibly annoying and limiting.
fratlas 2y ago
Try Canva whiteboards. You can embed an inf canvas into slides

dijit 2y ago

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.

dbg31415 2y ago
Even when you pay for enterprise, Google support will say things like, “Just change your brand font to use a Google Font!” It’s pretty awful and arrogant.
- dijit 2y ago
  I understand a large amount of the technical and legal reasons for this, but I agree. It hurts my position greatly as an advocate of their services internally and leads to us having to use Powerpoint anyway.
dbbk 2y ago
Object sizing and alignment is also garbage, barely functional, and has not been fixed in decades.
ec109685 2y ago
I worked somewhere where they went through this and got a custom font added: https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuite/comments/170jgfl/upload_custom_font_otfwoff_to_gsuite/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuite/comments/170jgfl/upload_cust... Pretty disappointing and convoluted though.

SkyPuncher 2y ago

They do, but it’s not easy to use.

Andrew_nenakhov 2y ago

Google had something called Jamboard that kinda fits the description. But Google being Google, it was recently discontinued.

azangru 2y ago
Jamboard was never an infinite canvas. It was a very awkward thing that didn't allow you to select multiple items at once (or if it did, I never discovered how), or to expand the canvas to accommodate more content.
- te_chris 2y ago
  Agree. The fixed canvas size in Jamboard is incredibly annoying and limiting.

fratlas 2y ago

Try Canva whiteboards. You can embed an inf canvas into slides