[karthikb]

> As an FYI, we _do_ use Figma Slides internally for pretty much everything

I think this is part of the issue. How much of the internal use stays within the editor view? Do you have any internal stakeholders who won’t click a Figma link and instead want a PPT or PDF? Because those are normal requests for presentations - but not ones that you’d find with internal use.

For example, there needs to be a way to export to PDF that’s less than several hundred MB. And the PPT export is hopelessly broken - the outputs look like a clipped ransom letter.

[mjaniczek]

I'm usually building my slides in Figma (the original app), and I've learnt to run the PDF exported by it (hundreds of MB) through Adobe "Compress PDF" online utility that gets it to <10 MB. Would be great for the Figma-exported PDF to be small right away.

[dylan604]

on a tangent, being in the video industry, for me to see a file only in the hundreds of MBs wouldn't even get my attention. it's funny how used to the boiling water one gets when it happens slowly. of course a PDF is not a video file, so maybe something would feel hinky???

[callc]

It’s amazing how small text and images, even compressed video, can get compared to uncompressed video.

Caring a little bit will help save a bunch of space.

[gugagore]

Does video these days really ever exist uncompressed other than when it's in transit, like through an HDMI cable or in a frame buffer?

Does anyone store uncompressed video these days? Honest question.

[dahcryn]

sending files over email is just extremely common, staying lower than 15mb is almost a requirement to facilitate easy communication in many businesses

Also, I tend to have OneDrive sync my active projects, including the steerco and update slidedecks, to my iPad, to read on my iPad when travelling or commuting. Small decks are so much more pleasant to deal with, and can easily sync over a mobile connection