practical alternatives to ppt presentations?
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- oohtruck
A client wants me to redesign his presentation template. He currently uses either Word or PPT to generate these presentations. I'm not going to design for Word, and would like to propose an alternative approach instead of using PPT. The goal is that the client should be able to do simple edits to these himself, so if he has to generate a new one it's basically some logo and text replacements. Any suggestions for good practice? Design in inDesign, and provide an editable PDF?
- waterhouse0
PDF.
- newuser0
Keynote?
- waterhouse0
No. PDF.
- ohhhhhsnap0
what about GoogleDrive's docs?
- d_rek0
A wiser man than me once said, "If there was a designer who knew Powerpoint as good as they knew Photoshop they would be a millionaire."
I have to say, after doing this whole design thing professionally for the last 6 years, the guy has a point.
- d_rek0
But being totally, brutally honest you need to suck it up and learn PPT.
Once you get acquainted with the UI it's really not that bad (not going to lie, it's not the great either).
And there are lots of little work arounds to getting things to look the way you want. Just start googlin'.
If the man wants to pay you to put together PPT's for him then hell that's money on the table. If you think you're above taking his money for PPT then hell send him my way.
- d_rek0
Editable PDF is IMO not a better solution. It relies on the client having the editing capability of Adobe Acrobat Pro, which most clients don't.
Besides, trying to edit PDFs in acrobat can be a fucking nightmare in and of itself.
- utopian0
Prezi
- sothere0
lot of restrictions in the technicalities of ppt. but there's no restriction on how creative you can be with it.