Friends, anybody got a favorite program that supports drawing directly on slides with a stylus — not in the sense of annotating slides during a talk, but in the sense of preparing diagrams for them?
I would strongly prefer the result is something vectorized and editable. It's okay if it smooths, but if it "corrects" a loose, open oval to a perfect, closed oval (for example) and can't be overridden, that won't work.
Must run on Linux and/or Mac, preferably both. I could work with something that ran in-browser only, as long as I can export to a standard format for presentations and PDF.
@iris Ok, makes sense. I use LaTeX/Beamer for slides so everything updates automatically when exporting from Inkscape. Not sure about other software sorry!
@nicolaromano I'd be open to using LaTeX/Beamer in that case. Do you have any resources you'd recommend I check out to learn how to use that for slides?
This looks like a good tutorial
I personally don't use Overleaf, but rather VSCode with the Tex extension. This allows to automatically recompile the file when a linked image changes (sorry, I can't remember if it's an option that you need to actively choose or if it does that out of the box)
I personally like to use the Metropolis theme , a lot slicker than the basic one.
You can have a look at the slides in my image analysis course, all done like that. Feel free to take them and modify at will. There's an empty template presentation as well which is a good place to start
https://github.com/nicolaromano/BIA4/tree/main/Lectures
@nicolaromano Fantastic, thank you! I'll check it out.
@iris @nicolaromano Inkscape has had a slide design tool for a long time, apparently (since v0.48): http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Extensions-JessyInk.html
The principle seems great: draw in Inkscape as usual, then export as a single file that any browser can display. I don't know how smooth it is in practice.
I want to try it but haven't had enough time yet. I have used Inkscape a lot for making figures lately, became quite proficient, so all this experience would be amazing if I could apply it to make slides.
@Guillawme @nicolaromano ...huh. I'll have to give that a look as well, then!
@Guillawme @iris Oh, that looks interesting! Will have a look as well, might be useful thanks
@nicolaromano my goal is to not have to move back and forth between the program with my figures and the program with my slides. Or at minimum, I would need the files to be linked, so when I update a figure, my slides also update.