Remotely Controlling Google Slides Without an Official API
I’m a big fan of Google Slides. As someone who often helps out with multimedia at events, I much prefer receiving Google Slides over a PowerPoint file. This is for two main reasons. For one, it’s so much easier to collaborate with. The other side can update the slides at any time without a back and forth. Secondly, I use Linux, so opening a PowerPoint file often leads to style issues, usually from missing fonts.
So when building TheOpenPresenter, support for Google Slides was one of the first things that came to mind.
The requirements are simple:
- I should be able to import the slides easily
- I should be able to control the slides remotely
And oh man, I can tell you that it was an iterative process.
The easy way out: export to PDF
Most integrations with slides software simply export a PDF file. This is nice because you...
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