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This meme was created with Microsoft PowerPoint™ (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Universities have 2 templates. One was designed by a contracted designer. It features the company logo, and only works in recent versions of PowerPoint. Everyone struggles adapt the template to anything useful. The other was designed by a math professor, it uses the school colors, but is otherwise pretty much default. He receives emails periodically with people asking to update the template, which he promptly deletes. Neither of these templates is aware the other exists, they are simply never in the same room.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The Marcom dept takes calls from these two populations daily. They have an official template used for dean presentations.

They are not sharing it for many, many good reasons. And a few hilariously shitty ones.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What's with your spell check?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It must be set to a language that isn't English.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

French? English wiktionary shows "design" has been adopted by lots of languages, but "people" is only listed for French.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

low-key might use this for future memes - there's an uncanny quirkiness that draws the attention hahaha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

don't - it just looks ugly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

all memes are beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)

People use power point for academic presentations? I thought it was either beamer or, if you are a hipster scientist, reveal.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Never heard of any of those

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago

OK, beamer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Beamer is for Latex to crate presentations

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Every presentation I have ever seen at university was a PowerPoint, never seen beamer or reveal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Beamer popular with people that need to add lots of equations. It's easier/quicker if you know your greek alphabet and have several equations.

Beamer is the slide equivalent of latex. Even among latex users, PowerPoint seems more popular. If you've written the paper and are going to present it, you can just take the equations from the paper as screenshots so the big advantage of beamer is nulled.

I think reveals target market seems to be web developers. It's html slides so might be easier if you want that workflow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the explanation, I probably would never have looked it up lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I actually do use beamer for most presentations, but all universities I've worked at only ever provided templates for PowerPoint. My solution to this has been to just write a .sty file that makes it look similar (and leaves out the over-designed garbage that the templates tend to contain).

Edit: I've tried reveal, too. Didn't hate it, but it makes some things ridiculously difficult (e.g., handouts or "overlay-style" animations).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

In germany many technical universities offer .sty packages in the corporate design. Really cool!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ipe gang
(am I doxxing myself as being one of the like ten people that do presentations in Ipe?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's lpe?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This. It's a LaTeX-based image editor, basically

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds nice. What's the benefit compared to inkscape's pdf/TeX export?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I have no idea actually, never used inkscape

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think it's funny that beamer always looks so bad but everyone accepts it because it's the standard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

We have some pretty good styles at our company and we also had some at my university. It's not beamer that looks bad, it's just the default styles that suck. Use the metropolis styles, they're decent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why would these roles overlap at all? I'm so confused.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Just one of many cases of the designer having not a single clue what is valuable to an end user

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

This is brilliant! Thanks OP