@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
Post #3226113
2026-06-04 10:26 UTC
@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz
It flummoxes me that 30 years into using computers to show slides, tiny fonts in slide is still widespread practice.
25+ years ago, PowerPoint shipped a misfeature where, if you typed more text into a text box, it would automatically shrink the text to fit.
When Keynote shipped, it did not have this misfeature. I believe this is 90% of the reason that early Keynote presentations looked better than PowerPoint presentations of the same era: If you typed too much text into a box in PowerPoint, it would make it unreadable for people in the audience, if you did the same in Keynote you had to manually reduce the size and that felt wrong.
Some time around Keynote 3ish, they also added this misfeature.
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@laescude@mastodon.cr 2026-06-04 13:07
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz 😡 I hate autofit!
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@hjwp@fosstodon.org 2026-06-04 16:52
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz i worked in consulting for a while. more than half the powerpoints we made were never shown on a projector, they were just an alternative document format for conveying information, to be read on ur laptop.