“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for Speech (2016)

Re:“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occas... by geraldcombs on Monday November 06, 2017 @08:16AM (#15635179)

  - Powerpoint
    - has
      - terrible
        - default
          - settings

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Re:“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occas... by dkersten on Monday November 06, 2017 @09:41AM (#15635740)

On the other hand, powerpoint has good font size defaults. I haaaaate when people use one of those javascript presentation things (or, shudder, something home grown), because their fonts are ALWAYS[1] too small for me to read (I don't have great eyesight, even with glasses, I can't always read everything at a distance), while powerpoint is typically pretty readable (as long as you have no more than 5 points on a slide... after that, it gets too small)

[1] in my experience thus far

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Re:“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occas... by Cthulhu_ on Monday November 06, 2017 @10:44AM (#15636226)

Yeah, this; if you really are going to show code, make it huge. No such thing as too big when it comes to that. Stick to 40 character lines tops and make them fill the whole screen. Prefer to use the full slide for a code example, and put the most important thing at the top of the screen (usually the bottom half of a presentation / beamer screen is unreadable)

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