On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 8:30 AM Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> Achilleas Mantzios said on Sun, 22 Oct 2023 08:50:10 +0300 > > >Hello All > > > >I am going to give a talk about PostgerSQL, so I'd like to ask you > >people what do you use for your presentations, also I have no idea how > >the remote control works to navigate through slides. I have seen it, > >but never came close to using one. > > > >I have access to google slides and libreoffice Impress. What tools > >would you suggest ? What's your setup ? > > I use presentations in my work, both given by myself and given by > trainers. I can tell you Libreoffice Impress is absolute garbage. It > intermittently loses style definitions. As far as google slides, I know > nothing about them except I don't trust Google. Also, I'm not fan of > Software as a Service (SaaS) for non-big-enterprise usage. I prefer to > keep it all on my hard disk. That's where my PostgreSQL software > resides. > One big problem on most of these also is that you have presentation and content tied together. So retheming a presentation is difficult or impossible. This is one area where Beamer (which I see you mentioned) really shines. I can change my presentations if someone wants them themed differently separate from my content. > > Beamer (a LaTeX package) is the Cadillac of the industry, but only if > you're willing to put in the work. I've done presentations in > VimOutliner, but it's not "pretty" and so is only appropriate for > certain audiences. I created Free Software called HTMLSlides, but it's > not easy to use. I don't recommend it. > Also I have noticed a lot of folks in the community (myself included) use Beamer mostly. I love it. It makes my life a LOT easier. > > If you don't want to use Beamer, my advice would be to research tools > that convert Markdown to slides. Markdown is lightning quick to author > in, very much unlike Beamer. > > Two other suggestions: > > 1) Please have mercy on your audience members with poor vision, and use > black type on white background. Yeah, it's not "pretty" and it's not > "hip", but you won't lose people who can't read purple on blue. > Likewise, use large fonts so everyone can read. If you need small > fonts to reveal all your info, you need to split the slide in two. > +1 I do sometimes make an exception for this when something is sponsored and the sponsoring company requests it. > > 2) Don't read from your slides. If it's necessary to read the slide, > what I do is tell the audience to read the slide, and then after > they've read it I ask for questions and give them answers. But > typically, my slides are an overview, and my verbal presentation is > a dialog between myself and the audience. Slides should be a mnemonic device for you as a speaker and for the audience later, not a source of direct information except when you need a visual exploration and then the images are helpful. > > > HTH, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > > Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century > http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 > > > -- Best Wishes, Chris Travers Efficito: Hosted Accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in. http://www.efficito.com/learn_more
