HTML Presentations in Open Office

[Delphi123]

Dear friends:

I want to create a slide show in Open Office using 258 slides and then export it to the Web. To do this, I select Empty Presentation, then Create Presentation, then Insert Graphic (jpg) and the first image comes up to fill up the slide. Slide 1 is finished and looks great. But is there a quick way to create a slide show, i.e. to insert all 258 images at once? This slide show does not need any captions, etc. I could easily do this in PowerPoint (Insert, Picture, New Photo Album), but when you export it to the Web, Microsoft's presentation looks great only in IE, lousy in Netscape and non-existent in Opera. Naturally, I do not want this. OpenOffice can also save a presentation in HTML format and it looks great on all browsers. So, the only question is how to create a presentation slide show in Open Office more or less automatically, by inserting all of the slides at once. Can this be done?

Thank you all so much.

Benjamin

[smurfy]

Hi Benjamin.
My first thought when reading this was "of course you can" but I've just been trying to find a way and I can't find any easy way to do it!

One method I did try that may behave differently in Windows (I was using Linux version of OpenOffice) is setting a file association for jpg files to open With OO.o Impress and then Open all files from Windows Explorer. In Linux, this just opened multiple Impress slides as seperate "projects", not as mutiple slides in the same project and it will probably do the same in Windows.

Do you still have PowerPoint installed? How about create the 258 slides the easy way in powerpoint, save it as a ppt file and open it in OO.o?

[Delphi123]

Dear Smurfy:

Thanks so much for your help. Now that's a good idea: creating the slide show in PowerPoint, then opening it in OpenOffice, then saving it as HTML in OpenOffice. The main question is: will the presentation look equally good in Mozilla/Netscape as it does in IE? That's the $64,000 question. I will try and report here when I have finished. I'm, however, rather shocked that OpenOffice won't allow you to do this. I certainly hope they add this feature. You can see how valuable it is.

Thanks again.

Benjamin

[Delphi123]

Dear smurfy and friends:

I am very happy to report that the PowerPoint/OpenOfficeImpress converstion to HTML was a complete success. I created the presentation slide show with 258 jpg images in PowerPoint (Insert, Picture, New Photo Album), saved it as a ppt file, then opened the ppt file in OpenOffice Impress, then saved ("exported") the slide show as HTML in OpenOffice. I then checked it in IE, Netscape 7.1 and Opera. The slides were absolutely identical in every detail. You could not have told them apart.

If, on the other had, you try to save the ppt slide show as HTML in PowerPoint, you would have discovered that it is a complete mess in Netscape and nonexistent in Opera 7. A small but significant workaround victory for Open Source.

Benjamin