I keep forgetting how to make presentations. I had a list of tools in a wiki from a previous job, but that's now private and I don't see why I shouldn't share this (even if for myself!).

So here it is. What's your favorite presentation tool?

  1. Presentation tools
  2. Tips
  3. Tools
    1. Beamer (LaTeX)
    2. Darkslide
    3. Hovercraft
    4. Impress.js
    5. Impressive
    6. Libreoffice Impress
    7. Lookatme
    8. Magicpoint
    9. mdp
    10. Pampi
    11. Pandoc
    12. PDF Presenter
    13. Pinpoint
    14. Presenterm
    15. Remark
    16. Reveal.js
    17. S5
    18. sent
    19. Sozi
    20. Other options

Tips

Further advice:

I'm currently using Pandoc with PDF input (with a trip through LaTeX) for most slides, because PDFs are more reliable and portable than web pages. I've also used Libreoffice, Pinpoint, and S5 (through RST) in the past. I miss Pinpoint, too bad that it died.

Some of my presentations are available in my GitLab.com account:

See also my list of talks and presentations which I can't seem to keep up to date.

Tools

Beamer (LaTeX)

Darkslide

Hovercraft

Impress.js

Impressive

Libreoffice Impress

Lookatme

Magicpoint

mdp

Pampi

Pandoc

PDF Presenter

Another viewer that might be relevant here is pympress which supports annotations (in a separate screen), caching, timing, and embedded videos. dspdfviewer is another such viewer.

Others just use their IDE directly.

Pinpoint

Presenterm

Remark

Reveal.js

S5

sent

Sozi

Other options

Another option I have seriously considered is just generate a series of images with good resolution, hopefully matching the resolution (or at least aspect ratio) of the output device. Then you flip through a series of images one by one. In that case, any of those image viewers (not an exhaustive list) would work:

And to make diagrams, see this maybe exhaustive list.

Update: it turns out I already wrote a somewhat similar thing when I did a recent presentation. If you're into rants, you might enjoy the README file accompanying the Kubecon rant presentation. TL;DR: "makes me want to scream" and "yet another unsolved problem space, sigh" (referring to "display images full-screen" specifically).

See also this X11 list and this Wayland list.

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