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Showing a Slide Show

Different ways exist to start a slide show. Once a slide show is running, you can take control pressing keys or clicking the mouse buttons.

By default, a slide show always starts with the first slide. You advance manually through slides up to the last slide. You can change these settings.

Running a Slide Show

Choose Slide Show - Slide Show to run the show.

If you want all shows to start from the current slide instead of the first slide, choose LibreOffice - Preferences Tools - Options - LibreOffice Impress - General and click Always with current page .

Click to advance to the next effect or to the next slide.

Press Esc to abort the show before the end.

Many more keys are available to control a slide show . You can also right-click to open a context menu with useful commands.

Showing an automatic slide show (kiosk mode)

For an automatic change to the next slide, you must assign a slide transition to each slide.

Open the Slide Transition sidebar deck.

In the Advance slide area, click Automatically after , and select a time duration.

Click Apply to All Slides .

You can assign a different time for every slide to advance to the next slide. The rehearse timings feature can assist you to get the timing right.

To advance to the first slide, after all slides have been shown, you must set the slide show to repeat automatically.

Choose Slide Show - Slide Show Settings .

In the Type area, click Auto and select a pause time between shows.

Running a slide show from a file

You can start LibreOffice from a command prompt, followed by the parameter -show and an Impress filename. For example, to start the file filename.odp from the command prompt, enter the following command:

soffice -show filename.odp

This assumes that soffice is in the program path of your system, and that filename.odp is located in the current directory.

Related Topics

Creating a Custom Slide Show

Rehearse Timings of Slide Changes

Printing Presentations

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Is there any tool to convert pdf to ppt/odp slides in Linux/ Ubuntu offline?

I am looking for a tool that converts PDF into PPT files or supports any tweak to import PDF files into LibreOffice-impress, LibreOffice-Draw imports the PDF but that does not do the job. So far I am trying to use a workaround called pdftk+pdfchain to burst the pages of the PDF file into single page PDF files and then converting the single page PDF files into images using ImageMagic and importing them into a PPT slide.

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• 4 Possibly related to superuser.com/questions/268244/how-to-convert-pdf-to-ppt-or-odp –  Nick Weinberg Commented Jul 12, 2016 at 16:52
• 2 as Nick Weinberg suggested, the gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -sDEVICE=jpeg -r300 -sOutputFile='page-%00d.jpg' YOURFILE.pdf command almost did the job that is to burst and then convert the pages to pictures, then just to import them to Libreoffice Impress, job done :) –  Pavel Sayekat Commented Jan 23, 2017 at 17:53
• This question is increasingly relevant as the Linux version of MS Teams only allows the sharing of your entire screen, and not a single window...unless you have a set of powerpoint slides, which have special support. Neither of the two answers below provide a fully scripted solution. –  user643722 Commented Dec 1, 2020 at 12:49
• 1 Similar question on different sites: ■ ms office - Converting PDF to Powerpoint, importing each slide as a singular picture - Ask Different ■ libreoffice - Is there any tool to convert pdf to ppt/odp slides in Linux/ Ubuntu offline? - Ask Ubuntu ■ microsoft powerpoint - How to convert PDF to PPT or ODP? - Super User ■ conversion - Export beamer slides to powerpoint/openoffice-impress/keynote editable format - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange –  user202729 Commented Nov 18, 2022 at 9:41
• Pavel's gs statement ALMOST worked for me. The sOutputFile clause produced page-1.jpg through page-9.jpg, rather than page-01.jpg, etc. This means they don't sort. Not sure why. It's pretty clear what we asked for. I'll report it as a GS bug if I can reproduce it a few times. Meanwhile, this is a good way to learn the 'rename' command. –  Ed Greenberg Commented Feb 18 at 21:48

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Here's my take on it from personal experience. It's a two-step process - convert the PDF into single jpegs, then import the jpegs into LibreOffice Impress. It works best if the pages in the PDF are landscape already.

1.) Make sure the package imagemagick is installed ( apt install imagemagick ). Put your source PDF into a directory. Then in the terminal, navigate to that directory and run:

convert filename.pdf filename.jpg

This will spit out a jpeg of each page in the PDF. Move the PDF out of the directory to make step 2 easier.

2.) Open Impress. Go to Slide menu, Slide Layout -> Blank. This will remove the "Click to add title" and stuff. Then go to Insert -> Media -> Photo Album. Click add. Navigate to the directory with all your jpegs. Select all the jpegs (if you removed the PDF from the directory in step 1, just press CTRL + A to select all of them). Click Open. The next options depend on what the pages in the original PDF looked like - if they were landscape, you can probably choose Fill Screen, but you'll have to see what works best for your case.

• 2 convert -density 600 -resize 400% filename.pdf filename.png worked for me to obtain high quality and good output resolution. –  macieksk Commented Nov 27, 2019 at 12:29
• 2 (For ImageMagick version 1.3.20 ) If your source PDF is a multi-page document, a good Step 1 above would be gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -sDEVICE=jpeg -r300 -sOutputFile='page-%00d.jpg' YOURFILE.pdf (as seen in a comment to the original question). –  Digger Commented Mar 9, 2021 at 0:18

Works in LibreOffice ver. 4.3.3.2

Idea gleaned from this post .

Open a new instance of LibreOffice Impress . Hit Ctrl-o (to commence the process of opening a file). In the ensuing Open window, go to the File type drop-down menu and select PDF – Portable Document Format (Impress) (*.pdf) . Then, select your PDF file of choice.

Said PDF file should then load into Impress . You can now save the presentation in whatever format is available...but, be sure to check the finished product if saving in a PowerPoint format, as the slides MAY get corrupted along the way.

• 1 With command line: soffice --infilter=impress_pdf_import --convert-to ppt filetoconvert.pdf to PPT OR soffice --infilter=impress_pdf_import --convert-to odp filetoconvert.pdf to odp format, etc. ( details of some issues with the final output here ) –  zetyty Commented May 20, 2023 at 20:40
• 1 In my case latest LibreOffice v7.6.6.3, Impress opens a PDF in a new instance of Draw instead. Also the soffice command above works but alignment errors make it unusable. In the end I needed to use an external service. –  BoeroBoy Commented Apr 2 at 11:49

Yes, there are several ways to convert pdf to ppt: online converting services, OmniFormat (very old software), etc.

Best solution i've used so many times is Able2Extract : http://www.investintech.com/products/desktop/able2extract/convertpdftopowerpoint/ . Unfortunately it's proprietary software. You get free trial for like 7 days. But it's the best by far, for both Windows AND linux.

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LibreOffice supporting links between slides in a PowerPoint presentation

When a PowerPoint presentation ( .pptx file) has internal links between slides, it is possible to get LibreOffice Impress to support these — such that the user displaying the presentation can be taken to different slides depending on where they click?

Here's a PowerPoint presentation which does that , and still does it when viewed in Google Slides: to see it, press the ‘Present’ button, then see how on slide 5 clicking each of ‘Scales’ and ‘Fur’ go to different places.

But when I download that file and load it into LibreOffice, the interaction has disappeared: clicking anywhere on slide 5 just proceeds to slide 6. This happens whether I download the .pptx file directly, or using Google Slides's option to download it as an ODP document.

Is there any way to convert or display a PowerPoint presentation on Linux with working internal links? Thanks.

I'm running LibreOffice 7.0.4.2 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

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• First, does Impress support inter-slide links itself? That is, can you create links between slides IN Impress? If not, then of course it's not going to support links created in another program. Next, try saving directly from PPT to ODP to eliminate two possibly unnecessary conversion steps along the way (PPT to Google Slides, Google Slides to ODP). If you don't have access to PowerPoint and would like to see if PPT to ODP to You works, let me know and I'll create a simple presentation for you to test. –  Steve Rindsberg Commented Jan 22, 2021 at 16:41
• Yes: in Impress, select one of the text objects that's lost its link, then ‘Insert ▸ Hyperlink… ▸ Document ▸ Target’, click on the target icon, and pick a slide. I don't have PowerPoint (I'm running on Linux). If you can save as ODP (or even PPT-without-the-X), I can try that. Thanks. –  Smylers Commented Jan 23, 2021 at 17:43
• You're on, but promise you'll report back as to the results. Enquiring minds and all that. This link points to a folder on OneDrive with a test presentation saved to PPTX, PPT, XML and ODP ... basically, anything I thought might be remotely useful. 1drv.ms/u/s!Am2R87k-gmnpiSGLF4ijoyimW401?e=UAncOR –  Steve Rindsberg Commented Jan 23, 2021 at 18:03
• Thank you, Steve. LibreOffice followed the links in the ODP file, but neither the PPT nor PPTX. So it looks like I'd need the provider of a PowerPoint presentation to resave it in ODP format themselves. I didn't even know MS supported ODP (thanks), but it seems they do that better than LibreOffice supports PPT(X). –  Smylers Commented Jan 29, 2021 at 8:03
• I'm glad to hear that that worked. It'd be valuable to the LibreOffice community if you'd report this to the developers, I suspect. Feel free to send along the sample files I made, if that'll help them. –  Steve Rindsberg Commented Jan 29, 2021 at 15:49

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Convert Impress ODP Presentation to several JPG images from command line

I would like to use openoffice or libreoffice to convert a presentation made with Impress ( odp file, but might be powerpoint ppt, too ) to jpg images.

My point is: I have an odp presentation file, composed with 10 slides, then I would receive 10 jpeg images, one for each slide.

I tried with :

soffice --headless --convert-to jpg presentation.odp

This works perfect, but I just receive the very first slide of my presentation, not all. I do need all of them.

I don't know if there's an option to tell soffice to convert all the slides instead of the first one.

I know there are other ways like converting to pdf and then use IM, but I want to solve this using soffice. Im doing everything under Ubuntu Linux.

Thanks in advance.

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• You can still use soffice to create the pdf and convert it to jpg - all using linux. AFAIK there's no option to create multiple images from impress slides using the command line. There's only a libreoffice extension dating from 2012 to do this using the GUI. –  tohuwawohu Commented Oct 13, 2015 at 8:58
• Sure, I know I could use convert from ImageMagick, but I wanted to do it just with soffice from CLI. –  user1462789 Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 5:15

Im going to reply my own answer.

To convert, massively, from .odp to images, under Linux using CLI, I'll do:

This solution works, but it needs some improvements to make it faster and to prevent it from failing due to lack of hardware resources.

But, if your odp is not that big, you converted from odp/ppt/pptx/whatever to images, massively, it is scriptable, and using just CLI.

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Impress Guide 7.2

Chapter 10 Saving Slide Shows, Printing, Emailing, and Exporting

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Some keystrokes and menu items are different on macOS from those used in Windows and Linux. The table below gives some common substitutions for the instructions in this document . For a detailed list, see the application Help.

Saving slide shows

Slide shows created in Impress are, by default, saved in the Open Document Presentation (ODP) format. However, Impress can open and save a slide show in other widely used and recognized presentation formats.

New slide show

1)  Create a new slide show. For more information, see Chapter 1, Introducing Impress and Chapter 9, Slide Shows and Photo Albums.

2)  Save the new slide show using one of the following methods to open a file browser window ( Figure 1 ).

Click on Save on the Standard toolbar.

Go to File > Save on the Menu bar.

Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+S .

3)  Navigate to the folder where the slide show is to be saved.

4)  Enter a filename in the Name text box.

5)  Select a file format from the drop-down list at the bottom of the file browser window. By default, the file format is ODF Presentation (.odp).

6)  Click on Save to save the slide show and close the file browser window.

Figure 1 : File browser for saving new slide show

Figure 2 : Confirm File Format dialog

If the slide show is not being saved in the ODP presentation format, a Confirm File Format dialog ( Figure 2 ) opens asking confirmation of the file format selected.

1)  Open a slide show in Impress and make all the required changes. Impress opens slide shows that have been saved in a presentation format that Impress recognizes.

2)  Save the slide show in ODP format using one of the following methods:

Other presentation formats

2)  Save the slide show in a presentation format that Impress recognizes, use one of the following methods:

Click the small triangle ▼ to the right of Save on the Standard toolbar and select Save As from the drop-down menu.

Go to File > Save As on the Menu bar.

Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+S .

3)  In the file browser window that opens, navigate to the folder where the slide show is to be saved.

5)  Select a presentation file format from the drop-down list at the bottom of the file browser window. By default, the file format is ODF Presentation (.odp).

Figure 3 : Print dialog - General page

Impress provides many options for printing slides or a complete presentation. For example multiple slides on one page, single slide per page, slides with notes, as an outline, with date and time, with page name, and so on. For more information on printing LibreOffice documents, see the Getting Started Guide .

Any printing options selected in Impress using the General page ( Figure 3 ) and LibreOffice Impress page ( Figure 4 ) in the Print dialog only apply to the printing of the current document. To specify default printing settings for Impress, go to Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Print and Tools > Options > LibreOffice Impress > Print .

Any print options selected with the Print dialog when printing from Impress overrides the default printer settings that have been set using Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Print and Tools > Options > LibreOffice Impress > Print .

Figure 4 : Print dialog - LibreOffice Impress page

Printing slides

The following printing procedure is an example only. Actual printing procedure does depend on computer operating system and how the computer has been setup.

1)  Open the Print dialog using one of the following methods:

Go to File > Print on the Menu bar.

Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+P .

Click on Print on the Standard toolbar.

2)  Click on General to open the page for general print options and, if necessary, select a printer from the Printer drop-down list of printers available.

3)  If necessary, in Printer click on Properties to display a properties dialog for the selected printer and select the options required. Click OK to save the Properties selection and close the dialog. Actual printer properties available depend on the printer selected and computer operating system being used. An example of a printer properties dialog is shown in Figure 5 .

4)  In Range and Copies , select which slides to print, odd or even pages, the paper sides to print on (simplex or duplex), number of copies, collate multiple copies, and the print order.

5)  In Page Layout , select the paper size, orientation, pages per sheet, and, if necessary, brochure printing.

Figure 5 : Example dialog for printer properties

6)  Click on LibreOffice Impress to open the page for LibreOffice Impress print options.

7)  In Document , select the document type, slides per page and the printing order from the drop-down lists

8)  In Contents , select whether to print slide name, date and time, or hidden pages.

9)  In Color , select the type of color to print.

10)  In Size , select the printed size, to fit on a printable page, to distribute on multiple sheets of paper, or tile sheet of paper with repeated slides.

11)  Click OK to print the slides and close the Print dialog.

Brochure printing

Slides can be printed so that, when printed, the slides are in the correct order to form a booklet or brochure.

The printer procedures below are only examples. Actual printing procedure depends on the computer operating system and type of printer being used. It is best to experiment to find the correct method for brochure printing.

Single sided printing

The following procedure is an example of how to create a brochure or booklet using a printer that is only capable of printing single sided.

3)  Click on Properties to open the printer properties dialog for the printer being used and check the printer is set to the same page orientation as specified for the page setup for the slides. Usually page orientation does not matter, but it is important for brochures.

4)  Click OK to close the properties dialog and return to the Print dialog.

5)  In Range and Copies , select All Slides . A minimum of four slides is required to create a brochure.

6)  In Range and Copies , select the Number of copies required to match the required number of brochures.

7)  In Layout , select Brochure .

8)  In Range and Copies , select Even slides option in Include .

9)  Click OK to print the even slides in the presentation.

10)  Take the printed slides out of the printer and put them back into the printer in the correct orientation to print on the other side of the paper. It maybe necessary to experiment and find out what the correct arrangement is for the printer being used.

11)  In Range and Copies , select Odd slides option in Include .

12)  In Range and Copies , select the same Number of copies used for printing the even slides.

13)  Click OK to print the odd slides in the presentation and close the Print dialog.

14)  Assemble the brochures and bind them, if necessary.

Double sided or duplex printing

Printing a brochure on a printer that is capable of double sided or duplex printing makes the task of creating brochures a lot simpler.

6)  In Range and Copies , select Print on both sides (duplex long edge) or Print on both sides (duplex short edge) option. Normally, long edge binding is used for portrait printing and short edge binding is used for landscape printing.

7)  In Range and Copies , select the Number of copies required to match the required number of brochures.

8)  In Range and Copies , select the Collate option. This option is only active when printing multiple copies of the same document.

9)  In Layout , select Brochure .

10)  Click OK to close to the Print dialog and print the required number of pages for the brochures.

11)  If necessary, bind the brochures to match either long edge or short edge binding.

LibreOffice provides two methods of emailing an Impress slide show as an attachment in ODP format or PDF format directly from the Impress module. For more information on emailing LibreOffice documents, see the Getting Started Guide.

1)  Make sure the presentation file is open in Impress.

2)  Go to File > Send > Email Document on the Menu bar and the default email program opens with the presentation file already attached to the email.

3)  Enter the name of the recipient, subject line, and message then send the email.

Figure 6 : PDF Options dialog

2)  Go to Format > Send > Email as PDF on the Menu bar and the PDF Options dialog ( Figure 6 ) opens.

3)  If necessary, select the required PDF options to create a PDF version of the slide show. Normally, the default options already selected are sufficient to create a PDF file that the email recipient will be able to open.

4)  Click on Send to close the PDF Options dialog and the default email program opens with the PDF file already attached to the email.

5)  Enter the name of the recipient, subject line, and message then send the email.

Impress can export slide shows in the PDF format as well as other file formats. The PDF format is a standard file format for file viewing and is ideal for sending the file to someone who can only view a slide show file using a PDF viewer.

For more information on exporting LibreOffice documents, see the Getting Started Guide .

Quick PDF export

1)  Make sure the slide show file is open in Impress.

2)  Use one of the following methods to export the file as a PDF file and open a file browser window.

Click on Export Directly as PDF on the Standard toolbar.

Go to File > Export As > Export Directly as PDF on the Menu bar.

3)  In the file browser window, navigate to the folder where the PDF file is to be saved.

4)  In the Name text box, enter a filename for the PDF file or use the filename that is displayed in this text box. The file format is fixed as PDF and cannot be changed.

5)  Click on Save to save the slide show file as a PDF file and close the file browser window.

For more control over the content and quality of a PDF file, it is recommended to use the PDF Options dialog. For more information on the options available when exporting a slide show as a PDF file, see the Getting Started Guide .

2)  Go to File > Export as PDF on the Menu bar to open the PDF Options dialog.

3)  Using the various pages in the PDF Options dialog, select the options required for the PDF file. For more information, see the Getting Started Guide .

4)  Click on Export to open a file browser window.

5)  In the file browser window, navigate to the folder where the PDF file is to be saved.

6)  In the Name text box, enter a filename for the PDF file or use the filename that is displayed in this text box. The file format is fixed as PDF and cannot be changed.

7)  Click on Export to save and export the file to the selected location.

Figure 7 : HTML Export dialog – Assign Design page

Web pages (HTML) export

Slide shows can be exported as a series of web pages (HTML format) that can be viewed in any browser.

Exporting slide shows as web pages (HTML) does not retain any animation effects or slide transitions.

2)  Create a folder to contain the HTML pages that are generated and select the folder as the destination for the HTML pages.

3)  Go to File > Export on the menu bar to open a file browser window and navigate to where the HTML version of the slide show is going to be saved.

4)  Enter a name for the HTML file in the Name text box at the top of the file browser window.

5)  At the bottom of the file browser window, select HTML Document (Impress) (.html; .htm) format from the drop-down list.

6)  Click on Save and the HTML Export dialog opens at the Assign Design page ( Figure 7 ).

7)  Select a design for all of the HTML pages, either from an existing design or by creating a new design. If there is no previously saved design available, the Existing Design option is not available.

Figure 8 : HTML Export dialog - Publication Type page

8)  Click on Next to select the publication type to use for creating the web pages, as shown in Figure 8 . The available options change depending on publication type selected.

Standard HTML format – one page for each slide with navigation links to move from slide to slide.

Standard HTML with frames – one page with a navigation bar on the left-hand side and uses slide title as navigation links. Click on links to display pages in right-hand side.

Single-document HTML – creates one HTML document from the slide show.

Automatic – one page for each slide with each page set with the refresh meta tag so a browser automatically cycles from one page to the next.

WebCast – generates an ASP or Perl application to display the slides. Currently, LibreOffice has no direct support for PHP.

9)  Click on Next> to select the format for saving images (PNG, GIF or JPG) and the monitor resolution used, as shown in Figure 9 . When selecting a monitor resolution, consider what type of display users may have. For example, if a high resolution is selected, then a user with a medium-resolution display has to scroll sideways to see the entire slide.

10)  Click on Next> and enter the details for a title page ( Figure 10 ), such as name of the author, e-mail address and home page, along with any additional information that maybe required. This page does not display if the Create title page option was not selected when selecting Publication Type .

11)  Click on Next> to select the style of navigation buttons to use when moving from one page to another ( Figure 11 ). If buttons are not being used, make sure Text only is selected.

Figure 9 : HTML Export dialog - Save Images As page

Figure 10 : HTML Export dialog - Title page

Figure 11 : HTML Export dialog - Select Button Style page

Figure 12 : HTML Export dialog - Select Color Scheme page

12)  Click on Next > to select the color scheme for the web pages ( Figure 12 ). Available schemes include the existing scheme for the presentation, one based upon browser colors, and a user-defined scheme. A new scheme can be saved so that it appears on the first page of the HTML export wizard.

13)  Click on Create to generate the HTML files. If this is a new design, a dialog opens to save the design for future use.

Export in other formats

2)  Go to File > Export on the menu bar to open a file browser window and navigate to where the HTML version of the slide show is going to be saved.

3)  Enter a name for the exported file in the Name text box at the top of the file browser window.

4)  At the bottom of the file browser window, select the required format from the drop-down list.

5)  Click on Save to export the file to the selected location. Depending on the format selected, an options dialog may open allowing further options to be selected for the file format selected.

6)  Click on OK to save the exported file and close the options dialog. For more information on exporting files, see the Getting Started Guide.

Corrupt ODP file

I have somehow corrupted a presentation (odp) I have been working on. Any help retreving it would be great.

I have tried unziping it but I could not, I guess its not the same as writer docs. Not sure how to proceed. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

2021-02-01.odp

Some more information:

• I am using Office 6.4, Ubuntu 20.04
• The thumbnail is showing up on my owncloud page.

Error message :

Read Error. Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at position 2,91731(row,col).

Not very knowledgeable in Impress but try this:

Returned file ------- repaired document.odp

Sorry but can’t say what was wrong. Just extracted files and pasted into a new document.

I much appreciate the time you have saved me. Thank you for being an awesome community player. I trust someone will bless you very soon. :).