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The result is good, but it seems like more effort than necessary and using drawing objects in Office is always a recipe for compatibility problems if you use an
by resoluteteeth 11y ago
The result is good, but it seems like more effort than necessary and using drawing objects in Office is always a recipe for compatibility problems if you use any other program (e.g. Libreoffice or the the web version of Office).
- pcrh 11y agoAgreed, the time invested to learn how to make objects such as shown in Powerpoint would be better spent learning to use Illustrator or Gimp. The results would be much more useable across different media as well.
- cing 11y agoThat being said, there are good uses of presentation software outside the norm, as in these motion graphics: http://www.lindadong.com/blog/keynotemotiongraphic http://www.lindadong.com/blog/keynotemotiongraphic
- pcrh 11y agoAgreed. What you linked to looks like an interesting way to generate simple animations, which indeed could be of wide interest. I haven't (yet) tried using it, but may...
- agumonkey 11y agoNot that much an improvement over PowerPoint. Pymol and other suggestions here look much much more on point. Or even a python script for blender.
- pcrh 11y agoYes, there are much better software suites than generic ones for drawing and manipulating molecules, including dynamic simulations, etc. If someone is using Powerpoint to draw molecules they're not likely a professional chemist or biochemist. So the amount of time spent learning something like Illustrator would apply to whatever else they do as well.
- agumonkey 11y agoAlright, I meant it in a 'scientist trying to have illustrations' and found it weird his mindset would fit with hand made twisting of PowerPoint.