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At the Go SF meetup today, two presenters used the go-talks format, and their slides
were unreadable. Ten or twelve lines of text on a projector are too small to be read at
a distance of thirty feet.
I acknowledge this is a difficult problem, because a slide framework doesn't know
whether people are consuming it from far away or on their laptops.
Furthermore, I acknowledge that increasing the font size decreases the amount of space
available for slide content and thus the complexity of idea that a single slide can
represent. For a fuller discussion of the tradeoffs here, read "Powerpoint:
Pitching out Corrupts Within" by Edward Tufte.
What steps reproduce the problem?
1. Create a slide using the go.tools/present template, for example,
http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/kisom/gosf201407/crypto.slide#10
2. Project the slide's contents onto a screen with a projector. Stand thirty or fifty
feet away and attempt to read the words on the slide. Ask a 50 or 60 year old to do the
same.
What happened?
It was very difficult to read the words
What should have happened instead?
The template should provide some sort of "Projector" mode which boosts the
text, or have an increased default font size.
Please provide any additional information below.
Zooming in on slides does not increase the text size inside the window - instead, the
middle of the slide takes up more of the browser window. The text in the slide should
increase in size without the slide background moving.
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Apr 14, 2015
We can't change the default font size. There are too many extant presentations that would be broken by changing it. Furthermore, I've given dozens of talks with present that were readable when presented by projector.
by kburkeorg:
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