Google Presentations Adds PDF Output, Vector Shapes

Google Docs’ presentation application added some new features yesterday, gaining the ability to output to PDF. Users can save their presentations as PDF files, in order to share the file with others, or print it out for handing to others. Users can even print multiple slides per page, up to 12. What they still can’t do is output to Microsoft Powerpoint’s PPT file format, a glaring omission that is starting to look like an intentional incompatibility.
The other new feature is the ability to insert vector shapes into presentations. You can choose from 12 shapes, or rather eight different arrows and four other shapes (box, circle, talk balloon and star burst) and insert them on your page to jazz it up. Because they are vector shapes, they can be resized at will and still look great, and thusly give you more than just some text and […]

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