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by HellDunkel 909 days ago
Presenting stuff/ideas. I kind of have established my own powerpoint style over the years and seek to further improve my presentation skills. Happy for any good advice. ps.: and i despise pp
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You might find the following useful :

Visual Understanding Environment - https://vue.tufts.edu/

Came across this in another thread recently - https://quarto.org/

You've probably seen Seth Godin's Really Bad Powerpoint from 20+ years ago, but just in case:

https://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Really%20Bad%20PPTs.pdf

Try LaTeX with Beamer and/or reveal.js. (Also, Beamer's manual is full of good advice on presentations irrespective of the tool you use.)
Thx. I use LaTex occasionally but have to stick with pp. Looking to improve my non technical communication skills.
The beamer package manual had nice hints, like ~1 page just about font size. With statements like

> In beamer, the default sizes of the fonts are chosen in a way that makes it difficult to fit “too much” onto a slide.

Many of the ideas apply outside of latex/beamer. It's one of the better free documents about the technical aspects of slides. At least if the presentation is still driven by content on the slides, but that decision is a whole different story.

That's why I mentioned Beamer's docs. There is a very good tool-agnostic chapter in them.
Looked it up. You mean the chapter „Guidelines for Creating Presentation“?
Yes. It's full of wisdom and humor. ;-)

I loved especially this gem:

> Never, ever reuse a paper abstract for a presentation, except if the abstract is “We show P = NP” or “We show P ≠ NP”.

Any chance to achieve similar results with goold old (new) PowerPoint?
Typst with Polylux (inspired by Beamer) is a nice alternative.