[Issue] Animated GIF not exported

[csommer]

Hi,

I created a gif in Impress but after I export it, all functionality is gone. It works fine in slide show mode but otherwise nothing. Any suggestions? thanks in advance.

[acknak]

It's a known issue: Issue 81610: Exported animated gif doesn't animate
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As a workaround, you can extract the animated GIF directly from the presentation using any zip archive tool.

[csommer]

It's a known issue: Issue 81610: Exported animated gif doesn't animate
You can register there and add your vote (up to two) or comment.

As a workaround, you can extract the animated GIF directly from the presentation using any zip archive tool.

Thank you for your response. Interpreting your suggestion quite literally I have tried using 7zip but I'm not doing something right. When you say 'extract...directly from the presentation' implies that I should be able to use the archive tool within OOImpress?

[acknak]

No, I mean that ODF document files are also standard PKZip archives. You can use any archiving software that understands PKZip archives (i.e., any archiving software!) to open the ODF archive and extract a file from the document. In your case, you want to extract an image file.

Here's how it would look extracting a PNG image using command-line tools:

• $ unzip -l test.odp
  Archive:  test.odp
    Length     Date   Time    Name
   --------    ----   ----    ----
         47  04-07-08 01:41   mimetype
          0  04-07-08 01:41   Configurations2/statusbar/
          0  04-07-08 01:41   Configurations2/accelerator/current.xml
          0  04-07-08 01:41   Configurations2/floater/
          0  04-07-08 01:41   Configurations2/popupmenu/
          0  04-07-08 01:41   Configurations2/progressbar/
          0  04-07-08 01:41   Configurations2/menubar/
          0  04-07-08 01:41   Configurations2/toolbar/
          0  04-07-08 01:41   Configurations2/images/Bitmaps/
      22899  04-07-08 01:41   Pictures/1000000000000640000004B063BF812E.png
      10371  04-07-08 01:41   content.xml
      63018  04-07-08 01:41   styles.xml
       1195  04-07-08 01:41   meta.xml
       6662  04-07-08 01:41   Thumbnails/thumbnail.png
       9693  04-07-08 01:41   settings.xml
       2075  04-07-08 01:41   META-INF/manifest.xml
   --------                   -------
     115960                   16 files
  $ unzip test.odp Pictures/1000000000000640000004B063BF812E.png
  Archive:  test.odp
   extracting: Pictures/1000000000000640000004B063BF812E.png  
  $ file Pictures/1000000000000640000004B063BF812E.png 
  Pictures/1000000000000640000004B063BF812E.png: PNG image data, 1600 x 1200, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced

Unfortunately, all the images in a document have those long number-names, so it can be a challenge to find the one you want.