Hi! I’ve watched @diacritica use Penpot for his slides/presentations a couple of times already and I’d like to do the same
After failing to find some quickstart documentation, I did a very quick test and added 2 boards to the same page, and now in the View mode I can navigate between them using arrows. Progress!
However, I found a couple of annoyances:
The board I created second appears first. I suspect the reason for it is that the View mode sorts the boards from top to bottom as they appear in the Layers panel, and creating a new Board places it on top. But I’m not sure if this understanding is correct. What’s the best way to go about it? (And I hope it’s not "create the slides backwards…!)
The good news is that “pasting” an empty board places it at the bottom of the panel, so I think I sort of solved the previous problem. However, if I repeatedly Cmd+V, it nests the boards one inside the other, which is probably not what I want. The workflow that seems to work is Cmd+V, click on an empty area of the Workspace, then repeat. Is there a better way?
Happy to learn tips and tricks from the Penpot community
After creating the slides, is there a way to “publish” them somehow? Either by sharing a public link to a read-only version of the project, or exporting all the frames to a PDF of sorts (it’s fine if the answer is “no”, I guess I can take the SVG and manipulate it locally)
I have to say, this was the first time I had to use Penpot for something serious and I absolutely loved it. I found a couple of small bugs in the UI, but honestly I stress-tested the system so much. You’re doing something amazing folks.
For presentations I definitely prefer the “share prototype link”. Protip here @astrojuanlu If you want to use animated gifs (memes or other stuff) Chrome suffers from some bugs that prevent them to actually loop. Make sure to use Mozilla Firefox while presenting those! I have a link where I can track whether the browser supports “animated gifs within an SVG” here https://codepen.io/bsonntag/pen/vYGJZwo?editors=1000 If it works, then Penpot can also show animated gifs for those presentations. I use them a lot to showcase new features on Penpot
Thanks for the extra tips! On Firefox I found Penpot to be a bit laggy, it was working fine on Safari (admittedly I made the slides too big in pixel size).
I installed Chromium especially for using Penpot, as I also noticed the performances were better than in Firefox (which is my every day browser).
It’s also good practice to avoid installing any useless browser plugins and limit the amount of tabs you have opened.
I also noticed sometimes if the browser’s been opened for a long time (or for a day), hitting F5 to refresh the canvas helps (and it takes a few seconds).
Also want to add my appreciation here on how enjoyable this was to use. I managed to get my presentation out within 2 hours just before the meeting, as a first time user! That = outstanding UX in my eyes. Great slide transition effects.
wrt to Presenter View, I currently have my notes for the slides stored elsewhere. I wonder if there is a hack within penpot that would display notes to me as i click through each slide?
