Philip Goodfellow wrote:
Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
I'd like to create an Openoffice.org slideshow presentation with about
100+ jpg images.
Is there a quick and easy way to do this, or do I have to manually
create each slide and place each image into it?
I'd love to find a way to automatically create a sideshow with all the
images in a particular directory.
Better yet, if there was an open source image viewer (similar to
Google's Picasa) that exported a slideshow in openoffice.org format,
that would be great.
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/PhotoAlbum ?
Here is the text from the above link
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Create with Photo Album, using just four clicks, a slideshow from a
folder of pictures with random fades automatically applied between
slides, and the slideshow set to loop continuously.
This Photo Album extension is based on the original Photo Album Creator
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87718&package_id=95976>
by Russ Phillips, modified to be suitable as an extension among other
improvements.
How to install: in menu Tools->Extension Manager just add the whole
unpacked zip archive and then you should see a new menu-item in
Tools->Add-Ons->Create Photo Album.
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Do you need the slide show to be in a OpenOffice.org's format?
What are you going to use it for?
There are free programs that create slide shows and photo albums.
I use one that creates a photo album in an HTML format, and there is
a slide show option. Then you can "publish" it online. [
http://jalbum.net/software/ ]
So, again, do you need it to be in OOo's Presentation format?
Are you going to add text to each of the slides?
So if the extension does not work for you, try the one I use for HTML
photo albums.
I will try the extension myself.
OT: sort of
OpenOffice.org is a great product, but it is not a do all product.
I do not want to see it go the way of MS Office. MS has tried to
make their office suite do everything. Create a web page in Word,
but then you would have a web page that is 4 or 5 times the size
then the software that was created to write web pages. Then you
get to create spreadsheets within Word. They want Word to do Excel's
job. Of course there are so many thousands of options in Word,
99% of the users never have seen or used them. I remember when
Word went to Word 97 and the selling point was they added over
250 new options and functions for Word alone. Now it does everything
except what it was created for. Also it takes a 2 gig processor to run
the thing
without seeing any working delays (in my opinion).
Unlike Word, OpenOffice.org's Writer was developed as a word processor
and not everything but as Word is now.
OpenOffice.org has many parts to it, like Writer, Spreadsheet,
Presentation, Draw, etc..
Spreadsheet was not developed to do Writer's job and or Writer to do
Draw's job.
I do not know if I like the one opening screen, then you choose which
part you
want to use. It is convenient to have one icon to open OOo though.
Yet, I feel that you need to use the best software to do the job.
Hopefully it will
be a free or open source package, like OpenOffice.org. Do not ask the teams
of programmers to make extensions and other add ons that turns OOo into
another
bloated MS Office suite or Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, or other software that
need several gigs of hard drive to install and heavy processor speeds to
use.
I now run a 2 gig dual core processor and 3 gig of ram on my Vista laptop
and it does a worse job with most of my work than my XP laptop that had
a single core 2 gig processor with 1.25 gig of ram. Last night the dual
core
went to 171 degrees running a simple virus checking software. I never had
my single core processor go above 150 degrees in core temperature. I
was told
by DELL that the Vista laptop that had twice the number of processors
(cores)
and twice the ram, that is was an entry level laptop so it was not meant
to do
what I was doing. It is more powerful than my old laptop and cannot do what
the do what that old laptop could do.
The example above is the bigger is not always better.
OpenOffice.org is not as big (and bloated) as MS Office, but it is
better than
MS's product.
Find the best software for the job you need to do. OOo does a lot of good
things, but it is not a do all package.
Well, ooops, I rambled on and on and on.
Just use OOo and its the extensions. If it does not work for your needs,
find a free or an open source product to do the work for you.
Tim L.
retired and tired of MS.
Got any good open source software links to share with me?
I have some at www.lungstrom.com/list/ and I would love to
double the number of good open source programs listed there.
Send them to me at [email protected] (off the list)
OpenOffice.org 3 is there and was there with a link before its official
rollout.
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