Reading decks on the go

April 11, 2011 · by Jan Schultink

This guest post by Jakob Jochmann on Jon Thomas’ blog triggered this observation: more and more, I start to email out intermediate versions of my presentations in PDF format because people can read them on mobile devices. This format is good enough for high-level comments on early drafts. The final round of edits needs a bigger screen.

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2 comments

Jakob2011-04-11 08:16:51

Hey Jan, thanks for the mention. So your clients are fine with commenting on .pdf rather than having access to the source file in production? Probably for the best I'd say (most definitely to be more accurate) still I find it noteworthy that this is becoming common practice and am interested in how revision processes work and if the deliverable needs to be a .ppt file? (If you'd rather comment on the post over at presentation advisors to continue this conversation that's cool, too)

It is Jakob with a "k" btw, just in case anyone should want to mention my name agin ;-)

Jan Schultink2011-04-11 08:53:03

OK, fixed the typo.

I think that there are different types of presentation iterations. PDF is good enough for look-and-feel tests, and whether the overall concept of a chart is right. More detailed editing can be done later on the PPTX file. And ultimately, that's what the client will receive.