On Sunday 05 June 2005 08:11 am, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> I was in no way intending to be cross and was actually quite happy to
> see that someone had taken the time to respond to my question so
> quickly. I don't think I said anything that would indicate any sort
> of displeasure or "crossness", but if so, I apologize. I was just
> trying to clarify for you, since you weren't sure if I meant printing
> or saving to a file.
>
> I'm aware (and extremely thankful) that the OO user community, like
> the communities for just about all of the software I use on a daily
> basis, are volunteer-supported, and I certainly appreciate your
> efforts here (I can see from my short time on the list that you are a
> major contributor to it). I believe strongly in this model, and
> attempt to give back to it in areas where I am more knowledgable
> (hence my need to save a copy of the slides without notes, to support
> my class in which I teach and evangelize about Perl and other open
> source software :-)
>
> So, having hopefully cleared that up, I'm still in need of advice on
> my best option. If Exporting to PDF is it, I'll go that route, but
> was hoping for something in a native presentation format like SXI or
> PPT. I've found in the past that the students prefer it that way
> (they like to open them in PPT and follow along during class, making
> edits to the slides directly, as opposed to PDF which forces them to
> print to paper if they want to write their notes on the slides). But
> best I can tell (including reading the docs on saving), the only way
> to detatch my notes from my slides is to export them as PDF. Just
> thought I'd ask here if there was some other way which I am missing.
>
> -Fran
>
> G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 07:01 -0500, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> >>Thanks for the response. I'm not talking about printing at all,
> >> I'm referring to making a copy of the slides available online for
> >> download by the students, without my speaker notes. If I have a
> >> presentation that includes notes for the slides, there appears to
> >> be no way to make a digital copy of those that doesn't include the
> >> notes, yet still have it be in SXI or PPT format. I can do it if
> >> I export to PDF (because that doesn't take the notes along with
> >> the slides), but I'd prefer to keep it in a format native to OO
> >> and PPT.
> >>
> >>I know I can print copies for everyone without the notes, but I'm
> >> trying to save a few trees.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Fran
> >
> > Well then Help > Contents > Index > Search term > saving;options is
> > probably what you want. If not then it is likely not a feature of
> > saving. Maybe export is what you want. e.g. PDF.
> >
> > BTW, no need to be cross. We are a number of
> > people who voluntarily help out people having problems with
> > OpenOffice, or having trouble working out how to use it. Keep in
> > mind that any help you receive will come from a volunteer who's
> > being nice, not someone who's paid to help.
> >
> >>G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> >>>On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 17:06 -0500, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> >>>>I make Impress presentations with speaker notes to use for a
> >>>> class that I teach. I would like to make a copy of each
> >>>> lecture's slides available online, but I don't want that copy to
> >>>> include the notes that I have attached to each slide, just the
> >>>> slides themselves. I see that if I export as PDF it does not
> >>>> export the slides so that is one option, but I would prefer to
> >>>> be able to provide the slides online in OpenOffice and
> >>>> PowerPoint formats. However, it seems there's no way to Export
> >>>> the slides, minus the notes, to either of those formats. Is it
> >>>> possible? I'm currently using OO 1.1.3 but I am open to
> >>>> upgrading if necessary.
> >>>
<snip>
A very simple question: What happens when you export the Impress
file as Flash? Does that remove the notes or not?
Dan
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