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Prezi is great, works well, fits my business model (mostly), and I use it almost daily.
Thought: How difficult would it be to allow for italics in print? I'm not talking about selecting alternate fonts, just being able to use an italic version of the current fonts.
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I’m
surprised
3There are clearly a lot of people who find the lack of italics baffling - it must be one of the most basic things for any program involving text.
For anyone working in education or academia, this is a fatal stumbling block. I'm afraid prezi will never touch ppt in the education sector unless this is solved. -
3C'mon guys we need BOLD Italics and underlined text . I'm able to do it here, but you don't have it as a feature!
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frustrated
3I am an academic.
Not being able to use italics OR bold is ridiculous a huge problem. How can this possibly be that hard to fix!!!
I can't believe I paid for a "Pro" package. I was just about to recommend Prezi to all my colleagues, but now I certainly will not.
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irritated and confused
3For sure. I'm a film and television student and I'm constantly referencing titles of films, television shows, journal articles, plays and books. I need italics to properly reference all of those things. It seems foolish that bold, italics and underline wouldn't be included in a basic text editor. I have to echo the sentiment that it's ridiculous to spend time developing things like grouping by frame and panning and zooming when your basic text entry isn't fully functional. What are you thinking? -
3great. I just spent two hours learning how to use this new cool way of presenting a topic for my microbiology class, carefully thinking about how to organize my ideas in this web concept, and cannot italicize species names. This basic function is NECESSARY, and I guess I need to go back to powerpoint. awesome.
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5I make a lot of presentations that include statistics, and it is impossible to do this without using italics. There must be millions of people in education, both students and educators who need italics, and I'm sure a few million more people being able to use your product would be good on every level. Talk to your marketing people, if they are interested in becoming big in education, introduce italics!!!!
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1Hey, thanks for the suggestion. Thank you for your suggestion. While we can not promise anything specific, we regularly consider ideas, input from users. -
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5I make a lot of presentations that include statistics, and it is impossible to do this without using italics. There must be millions of people in education, both students and educators who need italics, and I'm sure a few million more people being able to use your product would be good on every level. Talk to your marketing people, if they are interested in becoming big in education, introduce italics!!!!
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i agree. i am in the same position. i use medical terminology in my prezi's and it is standard practice to italicize Latin binomials
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I also think italics and underline need to be introduced to prezi
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hey great idea,
has anything happened in 9 mts. obviously not. would love this function as well. somebody should buy and company and transform it into something huge.
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2I agree! Italics/Bold/Underline are all common functionalities of presentation software and would love to see something similar in Prezi.
As a less-than-optimal substitution - consider typing the text you desire in Microsoft Word (or other word processing software) and format it the way you want it to appear. Then use the Print Screen function to create an "image" of the text that you can add to Prezi.- view 1 more comment
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Clearly, such a text image could work for a single vital instance of needing inline italics, but if it's a mere image then you lose all of Prezi's ability to work with text scaling. Worse, even a minor edit will send you through a six-step process of re-creating and re-importing the graphic.
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As I originally said... "less than optimal"..... never claimed it was a fix-all option.
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sad
1We just hope they consider this SOON.... since even HTML has italics/bold/underline I really do not see the reason behind not enabling it.
May be if the creators/programmers explain this the whole community can pitch in to make this a very useful educational platform.
BTW, my 6th grade daughter was excited about it when it was shown in her school, but when she saw she could not italize... the interest when down exponentially -
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1I often need to create presentations for science topics, specially microbiology and italics are a must. I can't show scientific names without being in italic format!
That aspect alone is enough to make me choose other software most of the time. :( -
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3great. I just spent two hours learning how to use this new cool way of presenting a topic for my microbiology class, carefully thinking about how to organize my ideas in this web concept, and cannot italicize species names. This basic function is NECESSARY, and I guess I need to go back to powerpoint. awesome.
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frustrated
1We need underlining, more fonts, italics, preciser text formatting and underlining. WE NEED IT! We also want a way to make transparant backgrounds for images! -
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Amr,
There are some italic fonts available (have you tried all of those present in the themes?).
With regard to transparent backgrounds for images: if you use e.g. the png file format; this supports transparancy.
Kind regards,
Roel
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sad but Thankful
Roel,
Thanks for the Tip about transperancy! It works great!
Thanks a million!
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sad
1Yeah, if you can't italicize text, that means that Prezi does not work with a lot of academic conventions, which means there is almost no point in teaching it to students or having academic use it in their presentations. I was hoping to use this professionally, but it looks like I can't if I can't italicize.
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disappointed
2It's been a year since relliott's comment was posted and still no italics allowed. I'm a biologist and use scientific names on my presentations all the time. Prezi must allow or italics.
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frustrated
1Still no reply from Prezi on adding italics/bold/underlining to text?! Really?
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2Hi,
I study biology and used Prezi for the first time. It's simply amazing, but seriously:
You add cool new zoom and image cropping features and blinks - and still no italics?
I'm a ecologist and I have to use scientific species names all the time. It's no good solution having to use the alternate font for that.
Still no progress on this topic?
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irritated and confused
3For sure. I'm a film and television student and I'm constantly referencing titles of films, television shows, journal articles, plays and books. I need italics to properly reference all of those things. It seems foolish that bold, italics and underline wouldn't be included in a basic text editor. I have to echo the sentiment that it's ridiculous to spend time developing things like grouping by frame and panning and zooming when your basic text entry isn't fully functional. What are you thinking?
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I have used images created as printscreens of Word to show italics. It works for the viewers. Obviously is not a solution, but's a good way to get this thing going.
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Like David, I would be happy doing an occasional image of text, in a pinch... but only IF there were some evidence that Prezi's team were working on standard inline text formatting. Otherwise, I'm investing in a dead-end platform for academic work.
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@davidagnino,
Try drawSWF, better fonts (vector!) then word, and very flexible. See http://prezi.com/piak5pbomlxz/many-di... for an example.
Kind regards,
Roel
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2Another vote for italics! I just found this cool tool and want to use it when I book talk to middle grades, but I need to be able to italicize book titles. Do you have any idea how many school teachers and librarians you could get on board if you had more fonts? -
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2I think I am done with prezi....
It is maddening that you do not have basic italics/bold/underline functionality, even after a year of people begging for it. As is, I have to either crop an image of text and insert it as a picture, waaaaaaay to much work just to add a scientific name of something.
It's a shame too, I really liked everything else.
Back to powerpoint I suppose... -
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At least you can use a different color in place of italics. But I think the larger problem is the limited font selection. None of them have italics /bold. I wonder if this is just a reluctance to pay for fonts.
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Come to think of it, if they can do color attributes, they should be able to do any kind of attributes. So I suspect the problem is that they don't have the fonts.
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1I, too, am no longer able to use Prezi because of the lack of italics. I wanted to use it last month at a national presentation but didn't want to have to explain why things did not look like they should. Someone actually did use Prezi and had to explain why things would not be following protocol. I don't think most will want to take time to explain why they cannot produce presentations following expected formats.
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frustrated
3I am an academic.
Not being able to use italics OR bold is ridiculous a huge problem. How can this possibly be that hard to fix!!!
I can't believe I paid for a "Pro" package. I was just about to recommend Prezi to all my colleagues, but now I certainly will not.
This lack of VERY SIMPLE functionality that I assumed Prezi had makes it almost unusable for me. -
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Italics is the most important, but presumably style is a kind of modular capacity that will bring bold and underline as well.
Note: attribute must be applicable at the character (or word) level.
Otherwise, we can't include emphasize properly, nor use Latin terms per se , nor have a proper citation list juxtaposing Author Name, Title information. -
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1agree... client requesting italics after I spent around 80 hours producing a prezi for him. is it all out the window? maybe. -
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3C'mon guys we need BOLD Italics and underlined text . I'm able to do it here, but you don't have it as a feature!
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I’m
frusterated but hopeful.
2bold, italics and underlined would be SO helpful since Prezi's are used for both educational and professional purposes! Please make this an option!
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I’m
surprised
3There are clearly a lot of people who find the lack of italics baffling - it must be one of the most basic things for any program involving text.
For anyone working in education or academia, this is a fatal stumbling block. I'm afraid prezi will never touch ppt in the education sector unless this is solved. -
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I’m
frustrated
+1 for this idea. It's incredibly annoying in academia not to be able to use bold, italics etc. . How can you adequately display citations without? -
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um, italics are now available in some themes. take a better look. they DO NOT translate into old prezis... you have to start a new project-
Jesse, those theme-level italics apply to a whole text block at once, and hence can't serve to give the proper emphasis to a Book Title or other crucial word appearing within a paragraph.
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Pissed off
I'm doing my last prezi today. It's a great concept, but I need italics. The prezi team is always claiming they listen. They have so many people I can't believe they can't even get the most basic things done.
EPIC FAIL, PREZI TEAM. -
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Um... read the post above... THERE ARE ITALICS NOW... duh!
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The theme-level italics (for a whole paragraph at once) don't meet the need here. (Meanwhile, please don't insult the people for whom this is a vital issue.)
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Which themes have italics? I can't find it. Do you merely mean that italics are one of the three choices for text styles? That's not at all the same thing.-
sure this is different. It is a work-around : changing fonts in the phrase to look as italics... still only 3 fonts. not the same.
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I’m
really frustrated
I can't believe it. This topic was posted 2 years ago!
Still no attempts to solve it.
Not even a reply by the Prezi team?!
I was promoting Prezi to a lot of people, but they are all fed up with this basic problem.
That's it, I'm done with Prezi and back to PowerPoint! -
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I’m
happy my videos look better
when this was posted two years ago... there were no italics options... italics have been added since then. maybe not the way YOU WANT THEM Added, but they have been added none the less.
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That's like saying democracy has been added to a country where you still can't influence who makes law and policy, but you can at least vote for your favorite flavor of ice cream. (Not the democracy YOU wanted but...)
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I’m
happy my videos look better
when this was posted two years ago... there were no italics options... italics have been added since then. maybe not the way YOU WANT THEM Added, but they have been added none the less.
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1It's not the way WE WANT THEM, it's the way THEY ARE NEEDED.
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I’m
frustrated
2@ Jesse: This is not about work-arounds. It's about adding a basic text-editing tool.
You have to be able to just make one single word italic without having to add another text-box and placing it in the space you had to leave blank... -
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frustrated
1To clarify -- for people like Jesse Ali -- the need is for inline italics, which is important in any academic context (among others) not just for emphasis but also for distinguishing Phaedrus (the book) from Phaedrus (the character), etc. To create a separate text block with another block style, just to include an italicized word or phrase, is to set up a crazy amount of obsessive retouching to go along with every subsequent tweak (textwrap, size, position, color, rotation, spacing).
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1I wish I understood why this is such a challenge to the developers. Surely the underlying flash has no difficulty with italics? And while we're at it, why is it so difficult to add SWF font files to the list of fonts?
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I'm in the same boat. I want inline italics too. you have missed my point entirely. my point is that they HAVE been answering requests. this thread was not made two years ago and ignored. I also want the same things as everyone else. I also have to make a seperate box for each word
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Glad for your reply, Jesse. I wouldn't count the adding of additional fonts (some of which may have an italic look) as "adding italics" to text -- given that this thread is full of reasons to have true italicization ("in line" while keeping font constant) as a feature. Nonetheless, the prezi team may have hastily thought that a mix of font options (which include leaning fonts) would do. I interpreted your post (and your earlier tone toward other posts) as a sign that you saw any further concern over true italicizing as a silly personal preference. Glad to hear it's not so.
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2Looks like nothing new here...no italic fonts available as of 11/27/2012.
My only work around is to do the italic text in Illustrator and export as a swf. It works. It's a pain is the ass when you need to do a quick edit.
PLEASE GIVE US ITALIC FONTS FOR CHRISTMAS!!!
LK ALBEE
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not cool
1As I just paid my second $60 to Prezi (automatic withdrawal) I am frustrated for the lack of italics or any decent basic font features. Come on Prezi team. Seriously?!
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I’m
frustrated
When I checked my mails this morning and stumbled over one particular mail witth the subject "A Sneak Peek at Prezi's Most Requested Feature Ever... Before the World Ends". I instantly thought: YEAH, NO WAY!! NO THEY DIDN'T!!! DID THEY...?!
And.... I was right - no, they didn't! This is ridiculous. -
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maybe they just want to surprise us by adding italic without announcing ;-)
but then they would miss one of the most active threads... -
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1I want to add my voice to the chorus that we need italics. I am a geneticist, and we use italics to distinguish between proteins, genes, and mutant alleles. Neglecting the conventions of our field can be confusing to viewers, and it makes the presenter look unprofessional. Right now I am importing pictures of my italic words. Often colleagues approach me after my seminar presentations to find out how I made my 'slides.' I always tell them I used Prezi, but when I reveal that I had to import every italic word as an image, they tell me they will stick with powerpoint for now. Thank you for considering adding this highly requested feature.
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2Well, I did appreciate the rollout of All The New Features: except the one that'd be actually useful. Honestly, I need the Prezi folks to stop fiddling about with interfaces and circles and fans and whatnot, and just give me italics so I can become an entirely -- and wildly -- enthusiastic supporter and promoter. -
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1Richard, I agree with your comment. Why, with all the real improvements that people have requested, did all that development time go to drop-down menus? Who cares? I haven't seen one single request for most of the items in the upgrade, while all of the most popular requests were simply ignored. What's driving development here?
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