On Mon January 30 2006 23:27, Keith Bates wrote:
> [I sent this yesterday, but didn't see it on the list and haven't got
> any reply, so I thought I'd try again.]
>
> I've been using write and database functions in OOo for ages and am now
> putting my toes into the water with Impress- in particular for using
> for songs in church.
>
> What I want to know is this- is there any easy way to join presentation
> file together? With our current system, called magicpoint, we store each
> individual song on a separate presentation. Then it's simply a matter
> of using cat (in linux) to select and combine the songs into the order
> required each Sunday:
>
> cat song1 song2 song3 > songlist
>
> I would like to do something similar in Impress, but you can't use cat
> to do this as the resultant file just shows up the last one in the list
> (i.e. song3 in the above example)
>
> I know that you can use "Insert File" but that seems a bit cumbersome
> when you might have 6 files to join into the one presentation.
>
> Is there a simple way (preferably command line) of combining a bunch of
> presentations into one file which OO can read?
You could write a small bit of perl to do this as the impress files (as the
other OOo files) are just conpressed XML files. have a look at the XML in the
content.xml file and have a look at the end of the file where you will see
that each page is a block of XML. You can parse this XML and concat the pages
together.
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