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Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by leephillips on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:52PM (#30229578)
Entertaining, but just another “I insist on using garbage software and then complaining that it’s garbage.”

The table at the end is oblivious to adult solutions.

LaTeX + Beamer or Pandoc slides. Collaboration? Git.

Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by thiht on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:16AM (#30230754)
Collaborating on documents on slides is not the same as collaborating on a code base. Git is an awful replacement for that. Maybe something like Liveshare would be more like it.

But Beamer, really? Now you’re oblivious to any people that has the slightest eye for design. Beamer slides are the worst: the defaults suck, they’re hard to customize, and more importantly no one wants to touch LaTeX today, it’s a waste of time for very few advantages.

Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by IshKebab on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:34AM (#30233382)
> LaTeX + Beamer or Pandoc... Git.

Ha crazy how this mentality still pervades HN even after that famous Dropbox comment.

Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by cozzyd on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:19AM (#30229710)
Overleaf + Beamer works surprisingly well for collaborative slides. (and yes, you can use a git bridge if you want).
Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by doublepg23 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:57AM (#30229890)
I need to sit down and redo my resume, currently in Google Docs, to LaTeX with Pandoc. Very powerful tools and I much prefer plaintext with git of course.
Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by adhesive_wombat on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:39AM (#30231245)
I did my CV in LaTeX once.

First recruiter: "we need a docx file". Argh!

Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by doublepg23 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:45PM (#30240087)
This would be for my website, most vanity.

Frankly, every job I've applied for at this point just has me re-entering everything- even my internal system!

Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by IshKebab on Sunday February 06, 2022 @10:32AM (#30233368)
Maybe for the best - that recruiter was probably going to edit your CV and add a load of bullshit.
Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by adhesive_wombat on Sunday February 06, 2022 @11:02AM (#30233707)
Probably, but that would have been miserable for them, as I lazily ran the PDF though a PDF to docx converter online and that presumably created a Word file completely full of absolutely-positioned text boxes.
Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by SevenDucks on Monday February 07, 2022 @01:43AM (#30241167)
Try this https://anyconverters.com/convert-pdf2docx.html

Best for tables and other data doc

Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by SevenDucks on Monday February 07, 2022 @01:42AM (#30241161)
try this https://anyconverters.com/convert-pdf2docx.html

desn for tables and other data doc

Re:Google Slides Is Hilarious by ComradePhil on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:57AM (#30230125)
They don't have PowerPoint on that list, which I found surprising.