Export Notes from Impress

Hi:

I've searched through help and couldn't find any mention of this, but I
would like to export only the Notes from a presentation I have in Impress;
this is to aid in writing a more extensive script.

What I would like is to have a document (no specific type, but a Writer
document (odt) or a plain text document (.txt) would be ideal. The contents
would simply be a paragraph or section for each Slide, perhaps formatted as

Slide Number: text ... text

et cetera.

Is there any way to accomplish this?

Also, is there any way to import notes (other than block copying each one)
from an external document into the Impress presentation (similar to how one
would import an outline, although in this case, the slides would already
exist)?

Thanks for any hints.

Here's a possible workaround:
o Install a virtual PDF printer.
o Print the presentation to the virtual PDF printer, selecting Notes under Print content | Content in the Print dialogue.
o Open the PDF in your favourite viewer and save the text as a plain text document.
o Edit out any text from the slides themselves (which may initially be a useful guide to which slides the notes belong to). It should be fairly straightforward to do this.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

Hi,

I've searched through help and couldn't find any mention of this,
but I would like to export only the Notes from a presentation I have
in Impress; this is to aid in writing a more extensive script. What
I would like is to have a document (no specific type, but a Writer
document (odt) or a plain text document (.txt) would be ideal. The
contents would simply be a paragraph or section for each Slide,
perhaps formatted as Slide Number: text ... text et cetera. Is there
any way to accomplish this?

To make the following steps more easy, go to the notes view of your
presentation and select the upper frame with the slide view and just
remove it. After that you also can move and resize the lower text
frame as you like. If you can't remove or resize the frames:
right click -> position and size -> uncheck protection.

Karl