Conversion of odg file to ppt

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#1

Hallo all

I am preparing slides for a lecture. At home I use Libre Office, but when I
finish I will have to convert the slides to Powerpoint. As far as I can
see, the only way to do it is via PDF. I tried the conversion and it works
fine, but is a pain to do.

Does anybody have a better solution?

Thanks

Chaim

#2

Chaim Seymour wrote

I am preparing slides for a lecture. At home I use Libre Office, but when
I
finish I will have to convert the slides to Powerpoint.

You are creating a presentation in LibreOffice Draw? odg is created in
Draw...

Chaim Seymour wrote

As far as I can see, the only way to do it is via PDF. I tried the
conversion and it works fine, but is a pain to do.

Does anybody have a better solution?

If you are indeed creating your presentation in Draw instead of Impress, the
easiest way is to copy and paste you Draw objects into Impress and then
simply Save As Microsot Powerpoint 97/2000/XP/2003.

#3

Maybe you'd use PDF...

#4

Hi

Many thanks to all of you. I will try via Impress

Chaim

#5

Chaim Seymour wrote:

I am preparing slides for a lecture. At home I use Libre Office, but when I
finish I will have to convert the slides to Powerpoint. As far as I can
see, the only way to do it is via PDF. I tried the conversion and it works
fine, but is a pain to do.

Does anybody have a better solution?

Have you tried saving in PowerPoint format? Just use "Save as" and select the appropriate file type.

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
I think Chaim was just getting confused as new users often do.  F and G are very close together on the keyboard and in the alphabet and it's not immediately intuitively obvious that the G would be for "Graphics" and the P for "Presentation".  It's only obvious in hindsight.

As Pedro says it is easy to click on

File - "Save As ..." - "Microsoft Office (97/2000/Xp/2003)"

But a better way would be to simply install LibreOffice on the other machine.  You can have it alongside the only office suite that can't read Odp.  If you don't have permissions to install stuff on the other machine then install LibreOffice to a Usb-stick using the "Portable Apps" approach.  Then you can run LibreOffice from any Windows machine by just plugging in your usb-stick. 
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/portable/
I really need to test that on a few different lock-down systems

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Tom wrote

I think Chaim was just getting confused as new users often do.  F and G
are very close together on the keyboard and in the alphabet and it's not
immediately intuitively obvious that the G would be for "Graphics" and the
P for "Presentation".  It's only obvious in hindsight.

I don't think that was the case. See Chaim's answer @ 1pm

Tom wrote

If you don't have permissions to install stuff on the other machine then
install LibreOffice to a Usb-stick using the "Portable Apps" approach. 
Then you can run LibreOffice from any Windows machine by just plugging in
your usb-stick.

That is a nice suggestion for some users. But some companies have the USB
ports disabled (either in the OS or even physically) and some have the USB
ports enabled but a strict code where you are not allowed to execute other
programs that were not installed by the IT staff.

#8

Hi :slight_smile:
True.

It's good to see your 1st guess was right, again! And your answer was great, also again :slight_smile:
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#9

Why convert to m$? Assuming the presentation content is not too
dynamic, pdf is easier to deliver (by fullscreen presentation mode).
Trying to convert to m$ is high risk: formatting details will be lost
during the conversion and is also dependent upon the m$ software
version. Another way to produce pdf presentations is via the LaTeX
Beamer class.

#10

e-letter wrote

Why convert to m$? Assuming the presentation content is not too
dynamic, pdf is easier to deliver (by fullscreen presentation mode).
Trying to convert to m$ is high risk: formatting details will be lost
during the conversion and is also dependent upon the m$ software
version. Another way to produce pdf presentations is via the LaTeX
Beamer class.

I agree on the MS conversion uncertainty. But saving to PDF doesn't make any
sense. Unless you are doing a presentation that is so static that in fact
you didn't need Impress in the first place (you could do it in Writer),
converting to PDF is killing the presentation!

There is ONE advantage of exporting to PDF over using ODP or exporting to
PPT(X): PDF is the only file format that LibreOffice manages to embed fonts
into. And that could be important for a designer's presentation :wink: