The " Sun Presenter Console" extension supposedly supports dual screen presentations just like Keynote, but I have never had the chance to test it. I am pretty sure newer versions of Powerpoint must support this. Maybe you can use and add-on or something, but the basic software does not support it. I have no experience with this feature of MS Powerpoint. This will be on the big screen, obviously, if you need to swap the the screens. If you need to swap displays, go on the notes screen in the options menu. Keynote supports double screen presentations natively. Some other cool effects would also come handy.ĭual screen presentation supportThe idea is to show notes, time left in addition to the current and next slide on your screen, while showing the current slide on the big screen. If only someone added support for magic transitions between slides. Impress is inferior in terms of its animation caps to MS Powerpoint Again, some features of Beamer would be nice to have. In general, Keynote is richer in animations. I lack some features of Beamer, such as animated highlighting, in-place replacement of some text (these can all be simulated with the existing tools, but with difficulty only). In general, Keynote animations are slick, polished, the flexibility is great. I have found this very helpful for presenting a multi-slide argument. What does this do? If you have the same object on two consecutive slides, Keynote will create an animation, keeping the object on screen and flying it to its new position. Magic slide transition helps a lot with continuity across slides. Supported through OOoLatex (free), same as MSPowerPoint + TexPoint, the integration is slightly better. Supported through TexPoint (commercial, USD30) process is roughly same as with LatexIt and Keynote, slightly better integration. Supported through LatexIt (free), but overall a cumbersome process. Also, departing from the styles is difficult and I am just bored of some of these styles that everyone seems to use. However, creating slides with lively graphic is a nightmare (due to the lack of a GUI): You will end up with a few standard layouts, you will in general not use graphics, let alone animated graphics (or you will spend days on creating your slides). The fonts and styles (templates) are great. Same as MS Powerpoint, maybe somewhat below (but the difference is not big). The quality of fonts, color palettes, templates is not as good in Keynote. Overall, very impressive.Īligning to other objects is more cumbersome than in Keynote. You can also easily animate the graphics, tables. Cooler (technical drawing) better done with OmniGraffle. Adding presentation graphics (tables, basic charts) is very easy. Built in templates are professional looking. It would also be good to include a recent version of Powerpoint in the comparison.Īfter a few days of usage, so take this statement with a grain of salt.Ĭreating visually appealing slides, graphics on slides Maybe I will try it some day and update the post. Btw, while preparing this note I have learned that has a native Mac Aqua version of OpenOffice. Comments, suggestions, critics are absolutely welcome, as usual. Here is a comparison of the ups and downs of these software, mainly to remind myself when I will reconsider my choice in half a year and also to help people decide what to use for their presentation. Beforehand I used MS Powerpoint 2003, Impress from NeoOffice 3.0 (OpenOffice's native Mac version) and LaTeX with beamer. A few days ago I decided to give Keynote, Apple's presentation software, a try (part of iWork '09).
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