Re: [libreoffice-design] Impress(ing) Templates

Hello again Jaron!


On 13-02-2011 16:34, Jaron Kuppers wrote:
> Hi Paulo,
>
> Unfortunately, Impress is horribly buggy and not very intuitive sometimes.
> The program could use a complete overhaul, and the ODF (.odp) presentation
> format could use a serious update in order for LibO presentations to compare
> to MS Powerpoint or Keynote presentations.  Some of your errors I haven't
> experienced but I have experienced other problems of my own.
It's sad to see that, since all the bug I've experiencing I already knew 
from years ago. But I believe that with LlibreOffice development, best 
times finally will come!

> In theory, if you change text in the master slide (ex: you change the font
> in Level 2 outline text) it should also change the "Outline 2" text style.
> Additionally, changing an outline style (ex: the font change to Level 2)
> will change all the higher level outline styles (3-9 will also have a font
> change) since the styles are linked.
About the the hierarchical changes: Never mind! :O By the way, a very 
useful feature!

> You can create guidelines and create a grid for the document. View>Grid
> Show, View>Guides>"Display Guides" and View>Guides>"Snap to Guides" need to
> all be selected and for some reason are not by default (which I think should
> change).
Thank you! I initially saw the Guides menu, but after a moment I can't 
find it again... I thought I was crazy... :P

> To change the grid resolution (which is set to 0.5" by default) go to
> LibreOffice>Preferences>Impress>Grid.  Unfortunately, this change won't be
> saved to the template.
Never mind too. Thanks!

> Fields are extremely limited in Impress.  Only the default fields will be
> accessible for the general user. :-(
> This means there are a lot of cool features we could add to Impress
> Templates that won't be accessible.
Yeah, I was thinking about all those possibilities using fields! :/

> You can't... sort of... The Insert>Summary Slide function creates a slide
> with a content box filled with the titles of each slide.  It does not,
> however, update itself automatically.  Additionally, it only adds Titles
> from the selected slide onward (so if you are on slide 7 or 9 slides and
> click create summary slide it will only create a summary that includes the
> titles of slides 7, 8 and 9).
> Essentially this function is useless for templates and inaccessible to most
> users since the command follows no common sense.
The Summary Slide function is disabled in every case I try (also the 
Expand Slide function). Selecting slides, salving the presentation and 
or put footnotes in the slides have no influence on it... the menu still 
is disabled.

> Weird... Could you send the file to me directly. I will look at it and see
> if I can figure out why its doing this.
I'm thankful, but for now I can't reproduce these bugs correctly (!?). 
They are a bit random, but I'll try.

> Agreed! There are a lot of annoying bugs! I will try and make a list as I
> make templates but to be honest there are so many I currently find the task
> of recording the error, and creating a bug report for each very scary.
Many time ago when I started to use OpenOffice.Org I passed by many 
annoying bugs like these. So I searched in the web for any solution or 
even create a new bug report. But it seems that developers didn't 
anything to solve them along the years, so I found many old bug reports 
with the exactly same bugs. I hope now the things will get changed! :)

~Paulo
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Paulo José O. Amaro
Computer Science Student
Federal University of São João del-Rei
WebDesigner / Linked Empresa Júnior
Blogger / casatwain.com

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