Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 13440
Impress display support for second monitor
Last modified: 2003-11-10 13:27:06 UTC
(3) Display support for second monitor in two monitor systems. Select ability to show slideshow on 2nd monitor while edit page is still shown on first monitor. (3a) Unlike PPT, any presentation called by the active presentation should inherit the display property of the first. That is, if the primary presentation is being shown on the second screen, any presentation called by it should also show on the second screen. (PPT always defaults a presentation to the primary sceen. When showing a presentation on the secondary screen, if it calls another presentation, that one shows on the primary screen. Stupid, stupid, stupid. But, I digress.) (3b) A capability that does not at all exist in PPT but would be extremely valuable: In a two screen system, there should be a mode where the primary screen is showing something like the slide sorter view (slide thumbnails) and the secondary screen is showing the fullscreen slides. The slide being shown would also be highlighted in the thumbnail view. Pressing page down, etc, would change the projected slide as normal and also change which slide was highlighted on the thumbnail view on the primary screen. Clicking a thumbnail would cause that slide to be projected. This would provide a random access projection capability which would compete with much of the church worship software on the market for showing slideshows during worship services. This is a continuation as submitted in Issue 13389
Thank you Paul for this issue. I changed the issue type and priority according priority-definition.
*** Issue 6909 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 17551 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I concur with most of Paul Wright's comments. The only area I would beg to differ slightly is in "competing" with church worship software. There is at least one free worship software offering which provides excellent and developing support for extremely flexible song display (not presentation or powerpoint like) but which runs powerpoint to support sermons, teaching etc. I know they would dearly love to run Impress instead but the lack of features mentioned by Paul means they are still dependent on powerpoint (I digress too..) The first feature Paul mentioned is certainly the most annoying aspect of powerpoint on the Win98SE platform (apart from $$, that is). Sorry this only provides support for Paul's suggestions rather than anything novel but I am just about to launch into using OpenOffice to develop some training modules to help some of my clients move away from MSOffice.
Target Milstone changed.
This idea is duplicate to 12719, as that is the first written one. Nevertheless This issue 13440 has to be considered within issue 12719. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 12719 ***
Closed.