Have you tried cryptpad? I use cryptpad.fr’s unpaid option and I gain one GB data. Here I can choose between markdown presentation or onlyoffice presentation. The markdown presentation is neat for quickly creating presentations. I can however not comment on onlyoffice presentation because I have not used it.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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Recently saw SliDev posted on HN. You use Markdown to create slides: https://sli.dev/
Edit: it uses "an extended Markdown format"
Which elements do you want in it that you can not find ? Only simple transitions like this or I am sure you have specific issue.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WzigWN_c2g
I once made an animated presentation using Inkscape and an add-on I can't remember the name of. It was epic and blown everyone's mind. But it was not worth the effort and I have never attempted this again.
maybe cryptpad.fr
https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office/
Works like a charme across major platforms and formats.
Last time I checked versions for Android and Linux were unpaid.
I have used reveal.js and presenterm for simple work presentations and I enjoyed working with both. You’ll get a lot more flexibility and features from reveal, but presenterm is neat for certain kinds of presentations too.
Pandoc with reveal.js is nice. I also use an asciidoc template with asciidoctor-pdf, but it's a pdf output so no fancy animations or transitions.
I have a couple write ups about them:
LaTeX with Beamer for slides, and show the resulting PDF on any computer you want
Personally, I'd just use one of the many good markdown / JS presentation frameworks (reveal.js et. al.) out there, a local HTTP server and a browser.
Typst. Quarto. Xaringan. There's lots of good tools.
Typst for presentations? 🧐
I'd go for markdown (html, js) but if I had to choose between tex and typst, I'd get rid of tex as much as possible
https://typst.app/universe/package/touying/
https://www.onlyoffice.com/ may be an option. They have hosted plans but you can just use the office suite with local files for free if you don't need a yof the hosted offerings features
OnlyOffice desktop version. It is a tad confusing that they put the self hosted server on their front page.
It's this or Google or Microsoft if you want something PowerPoint-like.
Many recommend to 'pick a javascript framework', which just like LaTeX Beamer sounds good if you do your own thing, but not ideal if people expect PowerPoint. Building slides through code is fundamentally different from drag-on-dropping images.
Pick Google or Microsoft or OnlyOffice and use their web version. This keeps your laptop free of non-free software while using the same tools everyone else has.
Marp works well if you like Markdown. I cannot, however, speak to things such as transitions (though marp exports to a nice HTML file which includes a PowerPoint-like interface, so I’d imagine it’s possible).
That looks really interesting!