Re: [libreoffice-users] Best practices when working with LibreOffice Impress?

On 05/11/2018 05:32 AM, Gilles wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have zero knowledge of PDF, and need to make a list of recommendations to
> users working with LibreOffice Impress so that their presentations will use
> the same parameters (size, fonts, etc.) and be rendered into nice HTML.
>
> I have a couple of newbie questions:
>
> 1. Wouldn't it be easier/better to merge and convert LibreOffice files
> directly into HTML instead of going through PDF? If that's the case, what
> tool would you recommend (Windows or Linux)?

I'm no Impress expert, but after reading your email, I took an Impress 
presentation and exported it to HTML from within LO itself. I selected 
"File", "Export..." I then selected "HTML" from the format drop-down 
box. I gave it a file name ending in .html, and hit "Save." The program 
then took me through a series of HTML design dialog boxes. I didn't 
understand more than half of what I was reading, so for most of the 
dialog boxes, .I selected the default settings. When I finished, I had a 
very nice HTML that closely mimicked my original Impress file. Each 
slide and image was saved as a separate file, so the resulting HTML 
presentation consist of many different files; it is probably best to 
save them in their own folder.

I also tried exporting it to an "XHTML" format, but at least for me, I 
lost the slide presentation functionality. It just became one single 
HTML page that one would scroll down.

While I did this on a Linux Mint machine, I have no reason to believe 
that LO would work any differently in Windows.

> 2. If going through PDF doesn't matter, what tool + settings do you
> recommend to a) convert the files into PDF (if LO isn't good enough) and
> merge them all into a single PDF?
>
> So far, I've used LibreOffice to export files as PDF, and PDFSam to merge
> PDF files into one. I've never used GhostView (gv) to convert to PDF.
>
> Thank you.
As you already know, LO can export directly to PDF, but I don't 
understand your question about merging the PDF files into a single file. 
When I save an Impress file as a PDF, it automatically saves it as a 
single file. So, I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish here.

Either way, LO can export directly to either PDF or HTML.

Virgil

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