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Writer is fine, Calc is somewhat ok for light spreadsheet users. but Presentations? That thing (whatever it's called) is just unusable IMO. Way too many click

by DeepDuh 14y ago

Writer is fine, Calc is somewhat ok for light spreadsheet users. but Presentations? That thing (whatever it's called) is just unusable IMO. Way too many clicks to do anything, crap looking standard templates, crap looking animations. Powerpoint completely blows it out of the water and let's beter not speak about Keynote. So any manager / engineer / researcher probably won't be happy with LibreOffice, since presentations are just a fact of life and you need to be able to get them done quickly.

chewxy 14y ago
Funny you say that. I've moved my presentation workflow entirely to HTML5+JS. d3 is amazeballs and should be used at every available instance (and so is raphael)
- DeepDuh 14y ago
  Interesting. May I ask you for a few estimates? How much preparation did you put into your templates approximately? How long does it take you to do a quick one-off? How long for a professional looking presentation for public speaking?
  - chewxy 14y ago
    Mine may not apply to yours. In presentation to clients, I write reports/presentations per scenario/campaign. I use your bog standard Initializr+Bootstrap, the visualizations have been previsualized on ggplot, and then translated into d3 where it makes sense. How long does it take? 2 - 5 days per report/preso. Like I said, it mayn't apply to everyone. I have the luxury of time. I don't usually do the presentation (can't recall when I did one). Speaking in public (even to normal people on a non presenter basis) terrifies me
    - DeepDuh 14y ago
      Oh. Ok. 2 days is actually at the high end of what I do, and this is for a 50min presentation. Of course, the visuals are usually based on work I already did before - instead of designing stuff with pen and paper I usually begin drawing my ideas directly in a quick Keynote presentation, that way I can show it to other people / at internal meetings easily. I'd be interested to see one of your presentations though, in case they're not all confidential. I think your approach might make sense for product launches for example - where it needs to look even more professional than the junk I do. If you're interested I could also send you an example Keynote file if you have a mac, just to see the quality difference.
      - chewxy 14y ago
        Nah they're not product launches. They're client-side reporting that is presented.
sergiosgc 14y ago
Unexpectedly, I moved away from PowerPoint without needing a PowerPoint clone. I started using prezi for fun, just because it's different and ended up taking all my presentations there. You have to be careful not to be too flashy, but it's a very cool application, if you can live with the lockin.

by DeepDuh 14y ago

chewxy 14y ago

Funny you say that. I've moved my presentation workflow entirely to HTML5+JS. d3 is amazeballs and should be used at every available instance (and so is raphael)

DeepDuh 14y ago
Interesting. May I ask you for a few estimates? How much preparation did you put into your templates approximately? How long does it take you to do a quick one-off? How long for a professional looking presentation for public speaking?
- chewxy 14y ago
  Mine may not apply to yours. In presentation to clients, I write reports/presentations per scenario/campaign. I use your bog standard Initializr+Bootstrap, the visualizations have been previsualized on ggplot, and then translated into d3 where it makes sense. How long does it take? 2 - 5 days per report/preso. Like I said, it mayn't apply to everyone. I have the luxury of time. I don't usually do the presentation (can't recall when I did one). Speaking in public (even to normal people on a non presenter basis) terrifies me
  - DeepDuh 14y ago
    Oh. Ok. 2 days is actually at the high end of what I do, and this is for a 50min presentation. Of course, the visuals are usually based on work I already did before - instead of designing stuff with pen and paper I usually begin drawing my ideas directly in a quick Keynote presentation, that way I can show it to other people / at internal meetings easily. I'd be interested to see one of your presentations though, in case they're not all confidential. I think your approach might make sense for product launches for example - where it needs to look even more professional than the junk I do. If you're interested I could also send you an example Keynote file if you have a mac, just to see the quality difference.
    - chewxy 14y ago
      Nah they're not product launches. They're client-side reporting that is presented.

sergiosgc 14y ago

Unexpectedly, I moved away from PowerPoint without needing a PowerPoint clone. I started using prezi for fun, just because it's different and ended up taking all my presentations there. You have to be careful not to be too flashy, but it's a very cool application, if you can live with the lockin.