mmmh, PowerPoint!
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- stewart0
where is the H between the S and IT, phubar?
- CyBrainX0
It is the sworn enemy of any self respecting designer. Here is how we can oppose this demon.
Tell people Flash can import dynamic text, so the salesmen can update it without touching the Flash source.
Put keystrokes on your mouse events to let the user hit the space key or enter key to advance to the next screen.
Allow Full Scale for the presentation mode.
Use Flash. Don't let them subvert your work and your purpose for being paid.
- flash is fucking terrible at this too, who in their right mind wants to animate in flash these daysanimatedgif
- monNom0
or let them use powerpoint so you don't have to touch their shitty presentation.
IMO, powerpoint serves a purpose, and serves it well...
most office people know how to throw together a powerpoint presentation, and most office people are suitably impressed in a meeting by an array of different page transistions.
Having a developed product like powerpoint saves time too... i think it would probably take quite a while to put together an editable, scalable, easy to use powerpoint alternative in flash(and this would just be basic PP functionality, no animation or anything)... and even then, trying to mimick some of the page transistions such as the blocky looking disolve would be hell. (and don't think they won't be asking for it! "well in powerpoint there was this blocky looking sort of transistion effect.... I want that"
I think it's best to let sleeping dogs lay on this one... powerpoint isn't going anywhere.
- but they ask you to fix it at the last minute because they can't fit everything in! it looks busy!!!!vaxorcist
- unknown0
you can what standard someones work is if they like power'shit'point....
arrrgggghhh
bollocks
- abettertomorrow0
powerbump
- vaxorcist0
powerpointlessness
- wmeredith0
Meh, Powerpoint is badass in the right hands. Just like crayons. There's nothing terrible about it in and of itself, it just gets put to a lot of shit work.
- timeless0
learn to work within it, we do a boatload of powerpoint work, not cause we want to, but because we can make it look great - and because clients pay us to
- bekannt0
please show me how you make that powerpoint look great
- bjladams0
i've gone years laughing/hiding as other designers have had to deal with it - but this week i've been asked to help with 3 different pp projects...
- akrok0
at least you didn't have to do it in excel.
- scarabin0
design it in photoshop and hand it off to an intern
- jfletcher0
this again.... man, in this case, Flash is ever WORSE than PPT.... at least PPT doesn't invade my wed browser with annoying ads.
- jadrian_uk0
Open Office
- nikdaum0
I hate sloppy everything feels in Powerpoint, it's like trying to position photos on an air hockey table.