To add to what Steve has said, see if you can find a room with equipment similar to what you'll be using for the actual presentation to practice in. Put up your most complex slide, then take a seat in the back of the room and imagine what it'll look like with a room full of people in front of you. On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 8:36 PM Steve Litt <slitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Achilleas Mantzios said on Sun, 22 Oct 2023 08:50:10 +0300 > > >Hello All > > > >I am going to give a talk about PostgerSQL, so I'd like to ask you > >people what do you use for your presentations, also I have no idea how > >the remote control works to navigate through slides. I have seen it, > >but never came close to using one. > > > >I have access to google slides and libreoffice Impress. What tools > >would you suggest ? What's your setup ? > > I use presentations in my work, both given by myself and given by > trainers. I can tell you Libreoffice Impress is absolute garbage. It > intermittently loses style definitions. As far as google slides, I know > nothing about them except I don't trust Google. Also, I'm not fan of > Software as a Service (SaaS) for non-big-enterprise usage. I prefer to > keep it all on my hard disk. That's where my PostgreSQL software > resides. > > Beamer (a LaTeX package) is the Cadillac of the industry, but only if > you're willing to put in the work. I've done presentations in > VimOutliner, but it's not "pretty" and so is only appropriate for > certain audiences. I created Free Software called HTMLSlides, but it's > not easy to use. I don't recommend it. > > If you don't want to use Beamer, my advice would be to research tools > that convert Markdown to slides. Markdown is lightning quick to author > in, very much unlike Beamer. > > Two other suggestions: > > 1) Please have mercy on your audience members with poor vision, and use > black type on white background. Yeah, it's not "pretty" and it's not > "hip", but you won't lose people who can't read purple on blue. > Likewise, use large fonts so everyone can read. If you need small > fonts to reveal all your info, you need to split the slide in two. > > 2) Don't read from your slides. If it's necessary to read the slide, > what I do is tell the audience to read the slide, and then after > they've read it I ask for questions and give them answers. But > typically, my slides are an overview, and my verbal presentation is > a dialog between myself and the audience. > > HTH, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > > Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century > http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 > >
