Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17387
PDF-export should support handouts, notes, etc (impress - WYSIWYG export to PDF)
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:19:34 UTC
The new PDF export feature is great. Still there appears to be an issue with exporting presentations: I found no way to export a presentation w/ added notes other than as simple slides. All the special options (Ger. "Zusätze") from the print dialog are missing, and there appears no configuration option to make e.g. printing presentations in notes format the default.
Yes, this is one more feature missing yet.
yes, OOo should offer the same options as for printing slides.
Yes, cf. http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/pdf_export/KickOffOct2003.sxw
MMP>CP: Thanks for taking over.
not handled for 2.0 according to http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/pdf_export/PDFExport.sxw
original summary: "PDF export of Impress files only handles slides, not notes, handouts etc."
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cp->pl: pdf enhancement
I think this would be something for you ?
sj->mmp: If this issue is about adding the print dialog features to our existing pdf export dialog, then of course a complete new UI spec is necessary, and this takes place also for Writer and Calc export and not only for Impress. I don't know why this should be something for me, I think this issue is more appropriate for the user experience team.
I too would like to see this issue resolved. The ability to export handouts to pdf is very important, esp for those in academia or business who need to distribute their impress files via handout view to students, particpants, co-workers, etc. According to the "Kickoffoct2003" agenda, this was a "low priority" issue 2 years ago--what is the status of this issue now?
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[Tested with OO 2.0 Final English and German] A friend told me that he can't use the new OO-Impress instead of PowerPoint because he can't print Handouts with more as 1 Slide at 1 paper. It took me about 15 minutes to find out how this works in OO-Impress!!! First i have looked at MS Powerpoint. There you can choose very easy in the printing menue to printout handouts and how many slides you will have on one side. Then i have looked on OO-Impress to find something equal in the printing menue, but there is nothing. Ok, then i have looked in the OO-Helpsystem to find an answer there. But the information there is useless. It says there: Printing slides as a handout You can print several slides on a single page of paper. 1.Choose View - Handout Page. 2.Click "Print File Directly" in the Standard Bar. Ok, I thought than it is probably enough to have the view of Handouts open and klick than on print. NB: This would be an very intuitive kind of solution for this problem! The result was that the printer printed out 4 paper with one slide instead of 1 paper with 4 slides. Now I was a bit perplexed and so i thougt it is an bug and I tried to find an equal bug in the OO-Bugsystem. And now I'm here ;) By reading the answers here i have found out how to printout handouts(hidden in the Options... menue ) but you see that it is not so easy as it could be. And the bug with clicking on Handouts and then on Drawing is still there. My suggestions: 1) Put this very often used option direct in the first printingdialog instead of hiding it in an submenu(Options...). Have an look at the powerpoint printing dialog. 2) Think about the intuitive solution i have described above and how it is described in the Impress-Help This part of Impress needs really an usability update. Thank you.
Yes, It would be a very nice enhancement, and useful to me!
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add CC
I also need this feature for handouts for technical presentations.
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Could someone look at this? It cannot be that hard to implement, and it's been open for nearly 5 years!
Is there another way of generating a PDF of the speaker's notes and/or the handouts without the need for an external PDF converter that keeps list as a low priority? Thanks, --Rob
The ability to export Impress handouts to their own pdf for student/lecturer books is essential for the creation of my classes. I've found OOo to be an excellent replacement for MS Office, however this one is a show stopper for those of us that create handouts and need to use PDF formatting. Until this is resolved, I will have to use MSFT as will the rest of my team. Please consider this is not just some one-person shop doing one-off projects. This is for a global team in a Fortune 20 corporation that is making a significant effort to replace MSFT Office with OOo.
This issue is a very old one. It seems as if this feature is really wanted. Question for the developers: Is it maybe a solution, if the export pdf dialog in Impress stays the same, but the function is different. When "Export Notes" is selected Impress should only export the "Slide with notes on a page". When it is not selected it should export the slides. The actual behaviour is a behaviour that no one expects from OpenOffice.org. By the way: Is it planned to have a solution for this problem in 3.x?
at least we can reassign it to someone who can do something about it.
An I agree that a 3.x target would be good. sj will of course have to decide.
I just needed this option again. It is still missing. When I want to export Slides with Notes, the pdf export generates all the slides and appends the slides with notes. So the pdf-document has double the pages. Is it planned to be fixed in 3.3?
I just came across this issue while searching for another problem with the notes pages. I am working as a lecturer and we have OOo installed on every PC at the school, but it is not used. One issue is the missing abaility to just export notes pages (without the slides) and handouts. One option would be to just export the notes pages (no slides) when the checkbox export notes pages is marked. Another solution would be the intuitive one also mentioned already. Export the page style that is currently in use when clicking PDF form the toolbar. Please find a solution latest in 3.3. I don't want to go back to Powerpoint just because of this.
I would support the calls for this feature. It would enable my training company to switch from MS Office to Impress for. I agree that it is hard to imagine the current situation (slides and notes both exported) evee being of use.
Shouldn't the fact there are six duplicates indicate this is an important feature?