Ask HN: What do you want from your presentation software?

[parris]

We're doing a little bit of research on what people think about the current state of presentation software. We see some opportunities, but would love to hear where others think the problems lie. Feel free to comment below, or if you're so inclined filling out this survey would be really nice - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XNZNJFW

[LarryMade2]

Text with a separate fill/outline for the font (not word art as the font proportions usually are distorted) This would be useful for subtitling, Chroma keyed video presentation work.

Getting arcade-like text effects. Most presentation effects are pretty basic (boring), they generate a text block and then just shove it into place (or dissolve it, or...) How about making some new text effects that play like arcade attract screen text, take a look at arcade game attract screens and how the text is presented, whipping in character by character, chrome shimmer, etc.

I hate taking surveys,. always limiting. Here's an option the survey didn't have - How do you distribute your presentation: Web and TV (think digital signage or text overlay)

[seidlitz]

An integration with a searchable library of slides and snippets that will allow simple reuse of previously created content. The key is how this library is organized by the type of content and version.

[seidlitz]

Slide parametrization ie variables with product/customer names etc.

[chrisked]

Convenient collaboration features within a team. Version History. No manual update or disconnect of tabular data.