[Solved] Automatic Slide Show Creation?

[Jack]

Thanks to the solution via private mail. There's a macro to build a photo album at the link below.

http://ooomacros.org/user.php#95976

Quick solution.. exactly what this forum is for... thanks!

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I've searched the forum for an answer to this but don't see any posts on the subject.. so here goes.

The latest MS PowerPoint has an option to automatically build a slide show from a folder of images based on a template to set the look of all slides. I've been using Impress 2.3 to create a slide show; one slide at a time; one per page. I downloaded Impress 2.4 in the hope that this option has been added... not there as far as I can see. So, since Impress is so powerful I suspect that there's a way to do this and I simply haven't found it yet.

Perhaps someone can clue me in on how to automatically create a slide show from a set of pictures?

Super thanks,

Jack

[Hagar Delest]

Thanks to the solution via private mail.

Please avoid the PM: this is a forum so any discussion should be public, it may help other users. If everyone ask by PM, what's the point having a forum?

This has been discussed at least twice (and one still in the first page of the Impress forum):
- Multi-select for insert picture
- [Solved] Batch Image Import
- [Solved] Insert Multiple Images?

[fishcad]

I have downloaded the installer. When I click on "Install" nothing happens. Any ideas what I've done wrong?

[fishcad]

I just got it. Thanks for pointing me to this add-on. This alone is enough to steer me away from PPT.

[714snoopy]

fishcad,

How did you get the macro to install? I click on it and nothing happens also. I tried it with OO on both Winblows and Linux and same result.

Thanks!

[Hagar Delest]

See [Tutorial] How to install a code snippet.

[tim_c]

The add on is today presented as a zip archive and posts elsewhere say it installs.

"The macros are now packaged as an add-in, with a simple installation routine."

For me here nothing whatsoever happens.

Zero documentation. No crystal ball.

Has anyone actually installed? How specifically? What is supposed to happen?

[Hagar Delest]

It may be an extension now. Try to rename it to .oxt and then add it through the Tools>Extension Manager dialog.

[ashman421]

The default macros security is set at "High". You might need to change it by going to Tools-Options-OpenOffice-Security. Click the Macro Security button and change it to Medium. This solved my problem getting it to install.

[johnvk]

i give a fairly detailed explanation of what i did to get it working here: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=450168