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Re:Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations ... by davidroetzel on Monday April 07, 2014 @06:21AM (#7545647)
This seems to be quite nice. The generated slides look very good.

For everyone looking for a html based alternative: slideshow (or S9) [1] is a ruby tool that also lets you generate slides from markdown. It has output plugins for most of the popular html5/js-based presentation systems.

It is a nice tool but what I like even better is its mailing list [2]. It is a wonderful place to learn about and discuss alternative and/or related projects.

[1] http://slideshow-s9.github.io/ [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/webslideshow

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Re:Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations ... by jebus989 on Monday April 07, 2014 @07:08AM (#7545767)
The same thing exists for the R programming language in Slidify [0]. I found Slidify + Google's io2012 framework an efficient way to generate good-looking presentations [1] so I can see the appeal in extending this to non-programmers.

[0] http://slidify.org/

[1] http://benjaminlmoore.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/slidify-prese... — disclaimer: my blog

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Re:Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations ... by drmohundro on Monday April 07, 2014 @09:27AM (#7546325)
Reveal.js (https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js) also supports writing your slides in Markdown.

I've used it for the last 3 or 4 presentations I've given and it has worked out well. It doesn't come with a huge variety of themes, but it is easy to share - I can just push it out to Github Pages.

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Re:Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations ... by LaSombra on Monday April 07, 2014 @09:33AM (#7546363)
Reveal.js is practically the default presentation tool for some groups at my workplace. Works quite well and looks quite good as well. Publishing is easy and works on FF and Chrome.
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Re:Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations ... by munchor on Monday April 07, 2014 @06:24AM (#7545656)
There's also http://hast.me.
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