Re: [users] open office impress

[Michael Adams]

On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:39, siebenkaempfe...@aol.com wrote:
> Hello,
> my name is Stephanie. I´m a student from Germany and I´m using open office.
> I´m referring to you because i do have coming up a presentation and there´s
> a little problem using open office impress. I want to embed a video from
> youtube, which might be helpful to present some issues about sustainability
> in tourism. do you know how to embed a video from youtube into that
> presentation (with impress)?? I hope you´re able to help me!!!

Youtube do their utmost to prevent you doing this. However their are video 
rippers that try to circumvent youtubes protection. Whether any are currently 
working or not i do not know. Every time they exploit a hole, youtube tries 
to close it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+video+ripper

The legality of breaking someones copyright is what you have to consider now 
before you try to rip any video. It therefore depends on your conscience.

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Re: [users] open office impress

[Michael Adams]

On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:39, siebenkaempfe...@aol.com wrote:
> Hello,
> my name is Stephanie. I´m a student from Germany and I´m using open office.
> I´m referring to you because i do have coming up a presentation and there´s
> a little problem using open office impress. I want to embed a video from
> youtube, which might be helpful to present some issues about sustainability
> in tourism. do you know how to embed a video from youtube into that
> presentation (with impress)?? I hope you´re able to help me!!!

Youtube do their utmost to prevent you doing this. However their are video 
rippers that try to circumvent youtubes protection. Whether any are currently 
working or not i do not know. Every time they exploit a hole, youtube tries 
to close it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+video+ripper

The legality of breaking someones copyright is what you have to consider now 
before you try to rip any video. It therefore depends on your conscience.

HTH

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Re: [users] open office impress

[Kevin Reynolds]

Maybe I'm out of line here but can't you just down load the video and
embed it from your hard drive?

Kevin

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Michael Adams  wrote:
> On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:39, siebenkaempfe...@aol.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>> my name is Stephanie. I´m a student from Germany and I´m using open office.
>> I´m referring to you because i do have coming up a presentation and there´s
>> a little problem using open office impress. I want to embed a video from
>> youtube, which might be helpful to present some issues about sustainability
>> in tourism. do you know how to embed a video from youtube into that
>> presentation (with impress)?? I hope you´re able to help me!!!
>
> Youtube do their utmost to prevent you doing this. However their are video
> rippers that try to circumvent youtubes protection. Whether any are currently
> working or not i do not know. Every time they exploit a hole, youtube tries
> to close it.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+video+ripper
>
> The legality of breaking someones copyright is what you have to consider now
> before you try to rip any video. It therefore depends on your conscience.
>
> HTH
>
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Re: [users] open office impress

[Michael Adams]

On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:39, siebenkaempfe...@aol.com wrote:
> Hello,
> my name is Stephanie. I´m a student from Germany and I´m using open office.
> I´m referring to you because i do have coming up a presentation and there´s
> a little problem using open office impress. I want to embed a video from
> youtube, which might be helpful to present some issues about sustainability
> in tourism. do you know how to embed a video from youtube into that
> presentation (with impress)?? I hope you´re able to help me!!!

Youtube do their utmost to prevent you doing this. However their are video 
rippers that try to circumvent youtubes protection. Whether any are currently 
working or not i do not know. Every time they exploit a hole, youtube tries 
to close it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+video+ripper

The legality of breaking someones copyright is what you have to consider now 
before you try to rip any video. It therefore depends on your conscience.

HTH

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[users] open office impress

[siebenkaempferin]

Hello, 
my name is Stephanie. I´m a student from Germany and I´m using open office.
I´m referring to you because i do have coming up a presentation and there´s a 
little problem using open office impress. I want to embed a video from youtube, 
which might be helpful to present some issues about sustainability in tourism.
do you know how to embed a video from youtube into that presentation (with 
impress)??
I hope you´re able to help me!!!

thanks!
sincerely
stephanie

Re: [users] Open Office Impress

[Michael Adams]

On Thu, 28 May 2009 19:08:33 +0100
Came this utterance formulated by Martin Mackay to my mailbox:

> Dear Sir/Madam
> 
> I am very disappointed in the above software I have been using open 
> source software for a couple of years now including software from the 
> Mozilla Organisation as well as yourself and until recently found Open
> Office to be a great substitute in not better than MS Office.  That
> was until I had the misfortune to use Impress to complete a piece of 
> coursework for my University Masters Degree.
> 
> The stability of this program is a joke I have twice lost my work and 
> had to start again due to the fact that it could not recover the 
> document or go back to a previously saved version either way losing a 
> lot of progress on my assignment.  Every time I saved Windows advised
> me of a non responsive application.
> 
> Suffice to say I am not impressed with this and Open Office no longer 
> forms part of my software package and is unlikely to be reinstalled in
> the future.  I suspect that like most packages you have decided to
> bloat it out with unnecessary features which means the simple tasks
> are now considerably more difficult.
> 

You have emailed a list which is primarily composed of happy
OpenOffice.org users numbering in their thousands. Are you sure that the
right course of action is to piss them off? Did you actually attempt to
resolve the issues you speak of by utilising this list for it's intended
purpose, as a help tool?

Were you trying to save in ODF format or Microsoft Office formats which
may not support all the features of an Impress presentation?

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[users] Open Office Impress

[Martin Mackay]

Dear Sir/Madam

I am very disappointed in the above software I have been using open 
source software for a couple of years now including software from the 
Mozilla Organisation as well as yourself and until recently found Open 
Office to be a great substitute in not better than MS Office.  That was 
until I had the misfortune to use Impress to complete a piece of 
coursework for my University Masters Degree.


The stability of this program is a joke I have twice lost my work and 
had to start again due to the fact that it could not recover the 
document or go back to a previously saved version either way losing a 
lot of progress on my assignment.  Every time I saved Windows advised me 
of a non responsive application.


Suffice to say I am not impressed with this and Open Office no longer 
forms part of my software package and is unlikely to be reinstalled in 
the future.  I suspect that like most packages you have decided to bloat 
it out with unnecessary features which means the simple tasks are now 
considerably more difficult.


Regards

Martin Mackay



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Re: [users] Open Office Impress and 2003 PowerPoint Shows

[James Knott]

Mike and Jean Domony wrote:

Good day.  I have a question that someone may be able to help with.  I have
a PowerPoint show that requires version 2003 or newer in order to properly
run.

 


The show runs on Impress, but when it tries to run the imbedded videos it
always stalls.  I do have PowerPoint 2003 and the show and videos run fine
on it.

 


Is this typical of Impress to have this problem.  Is there a newer version,
I have just downloaded Oo 2.4.

 


Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

  


There may be issues with some PowerPoint presentations.  If it won't 
play properly with OpenOffice, you may want to install the free 
PowerPoint viewer from Microsoft, which will allow you to watch, though 
not edit that presentation.


PowerPoint 2007 Viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en


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[users] Open Office Impress and 2003 PowerPoint Shows

[Mike and Jean Domony]

Good day.  I have a question that someone may be able to help with.  I have
a PowerPoint show that requires version 2003 or newer in order to properly
run.

 

The show runs on Impress, but when it tries to run the imbedded videos it
always stalls.  I do have PowerPoint 2003 and the show and videos run fine
on it.

 

Is this typical of Impress to have this problem.  Is there a newer version,
I have just downloaded Oo 2.4.

 

Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

 

Mike D.


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Re: [users] open office Impress Export destroyed directory!

[James Knott]

Hmmm...  Sounds like the MS patent shake down scam isn't doing very well.


Jon Williams wrote:

/I am using version 2.0.3 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is :

I just used Impress's HTML export to re-generate JPGs
after making some adjustments to a few of my client's slides.
I was warned that some files would be overwritten.
That's fine -- i didn't need the original jpgs or html files. "OK"
Then an error message re: a file being in use
that i *eventually* figured out was related to the saved export 
profile...


It then proceeded to zero-length every file from the containing
directory up (except a few xml files) *.fla, *.psd, *.as, *.wav, *.aif 
-- all gone!


This is going to end up costing me at LEAST a full day's work
probably more. Time i don't have to spare. Not only a wrecked deadline,
but a ripple effect into the next three projects on my schedule.
At *minimum*, this just cost me a grand. Free software indeed. Nice.

Know that i'll be telling everyone i know how badly open office
screwed me. Every client. Every family member. Every friend.
As much as powerpoint sucks (and it sucks greatly) it never did
anything close to this.

thanks!
:jon williams
http://www.shovemedia.com



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[users] open office Impress Export destroyed directory!

[Jon Williams]

/I am using version 2.0.3 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is :

I just used Impress's HTML export to re-generate JPGs
after making some adjustments to a few of my client's slides.
I was warned that some files would be overwritten.
That's fine -- i didn't need the original jpgs or html files. "OK"
Then an error message re: a file being in use
that i *eventually* figured out was related to the saved export profile...

It then proceeded to zero-length every file from the containing
directory up (except a few xml files) *.fla, *.psd, *.as, *.wav, *.aif 
-- all gone!


This is going to end up costing me at LEAST a full day's work
probably more. Time i don't have to spare. Not only a wrecked deadline,
but a ripple effect into the next three projects on my schedule.
At *minimum*, this just cost me a grand. Free software indeed. Nice.

Know that i'll be telling everyone i know how badly open office
screwed me. Every client. Every family member. Every friend.
As much as powerpoint sucks (and it sucks greatly) it never did
anything close to this.

thanks!
:jon williams
http://www.shovemedia.com



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Re: [users] Open office Impress question, inserting a mpeg movie

[Ricardo Dias Marques]

[posted to the mailing list and CCed the Original Poster]

Hi Claudia,

On 2007-MAR-28, SZV B.V. (Claudia Scheele) wrote:


I am trying to put a mpeg movie into an open office impress sheet
( I am using version 2.0.3.) But the movie doesn't seem to work ,
it does show the beginning of the movie in the little screens on the
left side of my screen but when starting the presentation it only
shows a black screen.
The movie is in mpeg format.


I had the exact same problem that you are (were?) having.

I found out this "MPEG movie appears in a black screen" was a
documented bug for OpenOffice.org (up to version 2.1), but it is
reported as fixed for version 2.2

You may read the bug info at:

qa: Issue 53514
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=53514


So, my advice is the same as Cor Nouws gave you: upgrade to version
2.2 of OpenOffice.org

I hope this info is helpful to you.

Best wishes,
Ricardo Dias Marques
newsgroup dot posts AT gmail dot com

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Re: [users] Open office Impress question, inserting a mpeg movie

[Cor Nouws]

Hello Claudia,

SZV B.V. wrote:

I am trying to put a mpeg movie into an open office impress sheet ( I am 
using version 2.0.3.)
But the movie doesn't seem to work , it does show the beginning of the 
movie in the little screens on the left side of my screen but when 
starting the presentation it only shows a black screen.


The movie is in mpeg format.


There are some things that do not seem to work constant.
See for example
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=47339&highlight=play+mpeg

However, with OOo 2.1 on WinXP I'm able to play .mpeg and .avi's.
I use Insert|Video and Sound (Invoegen|Film en Geluid).

Very soon 2.2 will be available.
Probably even better.

Regards,

Cor

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[users] Open office Impress question, inserting a mpeg movie

[SZV B.V.]

Goodmorning,

I am trying to put a mpeg movie into an open office impress sheet ( I am using 
version 2.0.3.)
But the movie doesn't seem to work , it does show the beginning of the movie in 
the little screens on the left side of my screen but when starting the 
presentation it only shows a black screen.
The movie is in mpeg format.

Thanks for your help,

Greetings
Claudia Scheele


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Re: [users] Open Office Impress: operation with two monitors

[Michele Zarri]

On 1/30/07, Phil Spray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Monday 29 January 2007 08:59, James Knott wrote:
> Phil Spray wrote:
> > I am using OO Impress with two monitors; the secondary monitor is a
video
> > projector.  The OS is Windows XP Home with most of the updates
(including
> > SP2); the machine is in a location where Net access is not available
so
> > the latest updates are not on.  (Most of them are security issues but
I
> > don't worry about that because of the lack of Net.)  No virus or
spyware
> > detection software for the same reason.
> >
> > I can set up dual monitors in the OS and drag the Impress window over
to
> > the secondary monitor, but when I maximize the window on the secondary
> > monitor and start a slideshow the slideshow images go to the primary
> > monitor instead of the secondary.  The Impress window stays visible on
> > the secondary monitor.
> >
> > I thought of using a switch to reverse the monitors but I cannot find
a
> > crossover switch for VGA (15pin HD connector).  Because of the long
cable
> > to the video projector, the quality would not be there if I used a
> > splitter cable to two switches.  Distribution amps are too
expensive...
> >
> > Is there a way to force the slideshow to the secondary monitor and
leave
> > the Impress window on the primary?   I think it's not a Good Thing to
> > show the audience all the computer stuff behind the slideshow because
> > they should have their minds on the content, not on screensavers.
>
> Which version of OO are you running.  I believe you need v2.1 to use
> dual monitors.
>

I think it is 2.1 because it will work on two monitors.  I can drag the
Impress window between monitors but the slideshow always comes up on the
primary. :(
What I think would work well is a 4-way selection:
1) Primary always
2) Secondary always
3) Where the Impress window is
4) Where the Impress window isn't
Default to primary if there is no secondary. (gray out the other choices?)

What I really want to be able to do is see the control window with the
previews at the same time the slide show is up on the other screen.
Somehow I don't think that should be a totally difficult chore, but there
is
probably more to it than that.

I will check on the version when I can get to the machine - it's across
town.

-- Phil


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Hello Phil,


If you have OOo2.1:
1) attach the second monitor (or projector)
2) Go to Slide Show > Slide show settings
In the bottom part of the dialog you will see a section called Presentation
Monitor where you can select where the presentation should be displayed.

If I remember correctly, this setting is not presentation-specific but it is
a global setting for Impress.
Note also that if the secondary monitor is not present then (at least in
Windows) the drop down list is disabled.

Cheers,

Michele

Re: [users] Open Office Impress: operation with two monitors

[Phil Spray]

On Monday 29 January 2007 08:59, James Knott wrote:
> Phil Spray wrote:
> > I am using OO Impress with two monitors; the secondary monitor is a video
> > projector.  The OS is Windows XP Home with most of the updates (including
> > SP2); the machine is in a location where Net access is not available so
> > the latest updates are not on.  (Most of them are security issues but I
> > don't worry about that because of the lack of Net.)  No virus or spyware
> > detection software for the same reason.
> >
> > I can set up dual monitors in the OS and drag the Impress window over to
> > the secondary monitor, but when I maximize the window on the secondary
> > monitor and start a slideshow the slideshow images go to the primary
> > monitor instead of the secondary.  The Impress window stays visible on
> > the secondary monitor.
> >
> > I thought of using a switch to reverse the monitors but I cannot find a
> > crossover switch for VGA (15pin HD connector).  Because of the long cable
> > to the video projector, the quality would not be there if I used a
> > splitter cable to two switches.  Distribution amps are too expensive...
> >
> > Is there a way to force the slideshow to the secondary monitor and leave
> > the Impress window on the primary?   I think it's not a Good Thing to
> > show the audience all the computer stuff behind the slideshow because
> > they should have their minds on the content, not on screensavers.
>
> Which version of OO are you running.  I believe you need v2.1 to use
> dual monitors.
>

I think it is 2.1 because it will work on two monitors.  I can drag the 
Impress window between monitors but the slideshow always comes up on the 
primary. :(
 What I think would work well is a 4-way selection: 
1) Primary always
2) Secondary always
3) Where the Impress window is
4) Where the Impress window isn't
Default to primary if there is no secondary. (gray out the other choices?)

What I really want to be able to do is see the control window with the 
previews at the same time the slide show is up on the other screen.
Somehow I don't think that should be a totally difficult chore, but there is 
probably more to it than that.

I will check on the version when I can get to the machine - it's across town.

-- Phil


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Re: [users] Open Office Impress: operation with two monitors

[James Knott]

Phil Spray wrote:
I am using OO Impress with two monitors; the secondary monitor is a video 
projector.  The OS is Windows XP Home with most of the updates (including 
SP2); the machine is in a location where Net access is not available so the 
latest updates are not on.  (Most of them are security issues but I don't 
worry about that because of the lack of Net.)  No virus or spyware detection 
software for the same reason.


I can set up dual monitors in the OS and drag the Impress window over to the 
secondary monitor, but when I maximize the window on the secondary monitor 
and start a slideshow the slideshow images go to the primary monitor instead 
of the secondary.  The Impress window stays visible on the secondary monitor.


I thought of using a switch to reverse the monitors but I cannot find a 
crossover switch for VGA (15pin HD connector).  Because of the long cable to 
the video projector, the quality would not be there if I used a splitter 
cable to two switches.  Distribution amps are too expensive...


Is there a way to force the slideshow to the secondary monitor and leave the 
Impress window on the primary?   I think it's not a Good Thing to show the 
audience all the computer stuff behind the slideshow because they should have 
their minds on the content, not on screensavers.
  


Which version of OO are you running.  I believe you need v2.1 to use 
dual monitors.


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[users] Open Office Impress: operation with two monitors

[Phil Spray]

I am using OO Impress with two monitors; the secondary monitor is a video 
projector.  The OS is Windows XP Home with most of the updates (including 
SP2); the machine is in a location where Net access is not available so the 
latest updates are not on.  (Most of them are security issues but I don't 
worry about that because of the lack of Net.)  No virus or spyware detection 
software for the same reason.

I can set up dual monitors in the OS and drag the Impress window over to the 
secondary monitor, but when I maximize the window on the secondary monitor 
and start a slideshow the slideshow images go to the primary monitor instead 
of the secondary.  The Impress window stays visible on the secondary monitor.

I thought of using a switch to reverse the monitors but I cannot find a 
crossover switch for VGA (15pin HD connector).  Because of the long cable to 
the video projector, the quality would not be there if I used a splitter 
cable to two switches.  Distribution amps are too expensive...

Is there a way to force the slideshow to the secondary monitor and leave the 
Impress window on the primary?   I think it's not a Good Thing to show the 
audience all the computer stuff behind the slideshow because they should have 
their minds on the content, not on screensavers.

-- Phil

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