Hi Ken,
Dr. Kenneth S. Marsh wrote:
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.
You could put the copyright notice in a footer and then switch it on or
off using View/Header and Footer. If this does not solve your problem
please give a more detailed use case.
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.
Yes this is something we need to address in the near future. Currently
we have the "gallery" where you can store shapes, images and sounds.
Including templates and single slides and master pages would be a great
idea. Some kind of asset management. Ideas in this direction are always
welcome.
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.
Have your already tried out the Sun Presenter Console extension?
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen
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.
There is the Sun Presentation Minimizer extension to help with this
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/PresentationMinimizer
But the team already agreed that local editing of images via a kind of
embedded pixel paint program (maybe with some borrowed filters from the
gimp project) is a desired feature. There are also some ideas about
wizards that help a non technical user if he inserts huge images
into presentations to shrink them to a more screen friendly size.
Suggestions in this area are also very welcome.
Cropping pictures on screen rather than indenting by dimension. Having
visual results of edits before closing the editor is also helpful.
We have interactive cropping in Impress since OOo 3.1 I think. Just use
the "Crop Picture" item from the picture toolbar.
Optional rulers on the slide view would be useful.
Have you tried view/rulers?
I look forward to discussing these and other ideas with a developer.
OpenOffice.org is a community driven project so usually you don't need
a developer to discuss things :-) The simples way is to submit an issue
describing your feature and get other people to vote for it. Even better
if you form a team and create a specification. The more detailed a
feature request is (meaning the less work a developer has) the higher
the chances that it will be implemented.
Regards,
Christian
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