Ah, yes, editable format ... I never thought of that problem;
thanks for responding to him.
From: Tom Davies <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Exporting Impress Slide Show
To: [email protected]
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Hi :)
Does it have to be in an editable format?
If NOT then maybe use Impress to save into some more reliable format
that doesn't change around from one version of MS Office to the next.
Some people have even suggested using .Pdf format but i think that
kinda scuppers the reason for having it as a slide-show. Perhaps as a
YouTube format? Perhaps as a Flash Player format? Other people have
suggested using straight movie formats such as the ageing .avi or
newer .mkv. For a Flash Player try
File - Export
and scroll down until you see "Macromedia Flash". With that sort of
idea you might be able to embed the presentation within a web-page and
choose the size of the display. Then save the web-pages onto the DVD.
Let the web-browsers do the work!
If it DOES have to be editable then pps is probably the best format
but even so it relies on MS Office being consistent from one machine
to the next and we know that it isn't. Perhaps find out which
versions of MS Office the pps does work well on and then write that in
the blurb on the DVDs cover. Such covers often demand that people
upgrade to the latest versions of Windows and MS Office in order to be
able to play the DVD and they make no apology for not working on all
versions.
OTH! Can you squeeze LibreOffice installers onto the DVD? One for
Mac and one for Windows would do the trick. No need to worry about
any for Gnu&Linux!
Note that when PDFs first started being used they would often be
accompanied by a button linking to the Adobe downloads site and hardly
anyone made a fuss about that. They just installed it or grumbled to
the their IT Department about not being able to open such a basic
format.
Regards from
Tom :)
On 18 November 2013 07:46, Dave Liesse <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a follow-up to a question I asked in August. I'm still struggling
> with trying to create something that can be used in other systems. Here's
> what I've done:
>
> 1. Created a slide show in Impress. Slides auto-advance after 5 seconds,
> and transitions are used to play appropriate music files. Previous tests
by
> myself and others on this list have shown that the links to the audio
files
> follow relative rather than absolute paths.
>
> 2. Saved as .pps file. Copied presentation and audio file directory --
> pathing kept intact -- to thumb drive.
>
> 3. Open .pps file on another computer that doesn't have LibreOffice
> installed. Slide show runs, music does not play. Confirmed music files
are
> present.
>
> 4. Rename original audio file directory on my hard drive for testing.
Run
> slide show from thumb drive on my own computer. Opens in Impress, of
> course, and does not auto-run. Music plays properly.
>
> This slide show is for distribution to others via DVD, and I'm really
> getting frustrated with it. I'd hate to think that the hours I've spent
on
> it have been wasted and that I have to start over with another
application.
> But I can't assume anything about the software anyone else has, and just
> about everyone has the ability to view a .pps file regardless of their OS
(I
> can be pretty sure, but not 100% positive, that everyone on my
distribution
> list is using either Windows or Mac machines). Can anyone see anything
I've
> overlooked?
>
> Dave
>
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