Dear Developers,
I received this email address in response to a request for someone to
contact with relation to a more powerful Impress package in Open
Office. I have been recording ides for a program designed for
professionals who make over 100 presentations and hope to offer these
ideas to someone who could help incorporate them into Impress. I am
very willing to supply more details.
Some of the ideas (I am writing from memory in response to getting
this address, not from notes) are mentioned below. I have much more
after doing presentations for some 39 years.
Copyright notice - Notices on master slides are wonderful, but must be
turned off (or have multiple masters) when using other people's
material. I often copy the copyright notice on each slide that is my
own to allow credit on those that are not.
Database for slides - something similar to iPhoto with a library of
slides and a presentation (analogous to an album) consists of
aliases. Each slide need not be copied for each presentation.
Ideally, the library could be divided by topic, and "album" can be
ordered with slides chosen for each presentation. Changing background
for each presentation (album) could still be done with the alias slides.
Split monitors as now available with Macs and possibly PCs in which
external (projector) has slides, local has slide, preview of next
slide, notes, timer, count for slides, etc.
Sizing of pictures. You already do a much better job than Powerpoint
for which shrinking a 10 megapixel picture to slide form is very
difficult.
Cropping pictures on screen rather than indenting by dimension.
Having visual results of edits before closing the editor is also
helpful. Optional rulers on the slide view would be useful.
I believe this is sufficient for now. I have just began to use
Impress partially because Powerpoint is demanded by many conference
organizers because they often assemble presentations for both handouts
and for recording presentations automatically. I therefore apologize
if I am recommending existing features.
I look forward to discussing these and other ideas with a developer.
Sincerely,
Ken
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Kenneth S. Marsh, Ph.D., CPP
President
Kenneth S. Marsh & Associates, Ltd.
Consultants to the Food, Pharmaceutical and Packaging Industries
and
Executive Director
Woodstock Institute for Science in Service to Humanity
Working towards Global Food Security
130 Cane Creek Harbor Road
Seneca, SC 29672
864-888-0011
[email protected]
www.drkenmarsh.com
www.wissh.org
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