Why PowerPoint should be banned

Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by wlesieutre on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @04:26PM (#9607415)

> Except it's difficult/impossible to edit a PDF file. How would you handle the use-case where multiple authors are collaborating on a single powerpoint file?

You generate your PDF presentation from LaTeX, which is stored in git! Multiple simultaneous editors with sane merging, unlike a group of people editing a PPT file on the network drive.

But those are probably not the PDF presenters you're talking about.

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by r00fus on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @04:57PM (#9607615)

So you're really talking bout LaTeX, not PDF then. PDF is a publishing format, not a collaboration format.

Now you run into the WYSIWYG issue, where the collaboration format needs to be "printed" in order to see the output.

Is there a WYSIWIG collaboration tool for LaTeX over git?

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by bkcooper on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @05:38PM (#9607831)

I believe Overleaf offers this service. I haven't dealt with it myself, but I have friends who like it a lot.

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by wlesieutre on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:01AM (#9611357)

Sure. But if we're talking about using a PDF as "slides" like bhartzer mentioned, it's always going to be made somewhere else and published. Unless they draw the entire thing out of annotations in Acrobat.

Which I can now imagine someone doing. Gross.

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by JetSpiegel on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @09:10PM (#9608694)

ShareLaTeX is even Online.

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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by jsingleton on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @04:57PM (#9607616)

I've had great results with LaTeX but it's not for non-technical people.

PDF would not be the main format but it works well to export to that from powerpoint (or whatever) before presentation.

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