As someone who works in the creative industries, it's important for me to make sure that my presentations and proposals always look clean and represent my concepts well. Since my needs are to keep the designs relatively simplistic yet interesting, I find the design choices on Presenti allow me to format my designs with ease, making it easier to get a design over the line quicker and then move onto other things.

My current method, particularly when it comes to designing a pitch can take several days to create with zero guarantees that I will win the work, so Presenti implements a lot of the alignment and design decisions for me, and with the base AI functions creates decent enough placeholders for me to rewrite and expand on, which is useful.

Last week I made a proposal and aside from a few quirks, Presenti was a great experience. I felt confident that it was the ideal solution for me to work on an important proposal. But when it came to exporting the document, this is when my main problems arose.

Ideally, I prefer sending clients prepared PDFs with all artwork nice and detailed, any svgs/vectors crisp and the text selectable as I include external links. However, the PDF export on Presenti is horrible, it exports each page/slide as a low dpi mushy image within the PDF with no option to change resolution or settings for export.

Naturally, image exports won't work for me as I need selectable and clickable text, which leaves the main primary export method: PPTX.

Oh boy, this was interesting...!!!

No matter how many devices, or browsers or networks I tried exporting on, my proposal wouldn't export at all, despite it claiming that export was complete. I thought it was a Adblock plugin issue, so I even tried to export in safe mode and nothing would happen. I had friends try to help me export on their computers and networks and still nothing.

Eventually, the only solution I could find was to export individual slides and then import them into powerpoint, where I still needed to reformat everything. The experience was pretty horrible as I was hours away from the submission deadline and one of the core functions of this product wasn't working.

Support have tried to help me, and I've not heard anything back from them since I sent over a screen recording highlighting the issue. The thing is, I want to love this product as it's ideal for me, but it's still not quite ready in my opinion.

If they sort out some of the more egregious bugs then it will be a fantastic product, but I just wanted to highlight this to others in case they experience the same issue.

I'll happily change my review if it's fixed, but for now I will stick to my older, slower method and refund in a month or so if we get nowhere.