Help! I am only trying to get impress to download e-mail with attachments that require powerpoint!! DS
--- On Fri, 8/21/09, Dr. Kenneth S. Marsh <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dr. Kenneth S. Marsh <[email protected]> Subject: [graphics-dev] More powerful presentations To: [email protected] Date: Friday, August 21, 2009, 8:44 AM 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 ____________________________ 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 ______________________________
