Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 52472
OOo 2.0 Impress does not seem to support Layers
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:06:17 UTC
I downloaded the OOo 2.0 Beta version and found out that the layer support has disappeared. Since I am heavily depending on layers, I would like to find out more about it. And is there any chance to add layer support, at least programmatically? Since Impress is derivied from Draw, I hope that would be feasible to do. Here some reasons why layers are important for me: -I am using background pictures which I place on a separate layer that is locked. This way when I give the presentations for editing, people can change the text, but they cannot move the pictures by mistake. -I am having a separate layer with guidelines for the title safe area of the screen. This layer I switch off for projection or when exporting, but it gives me at design time a good idea for consistent borders. Since in V 2.0 even the Guidelines are gone, I am heavily depending on that layer. I can see the layers also useful for multilingual presentations or for slight variations of a talk that can be switched on and off. Keeping layers in Impress would be a very beneficial feature that makes the program so much more useful than the competition, especially for professional users.
Reassigned.
"layers:definition" in the Online Help of 2.0 Beta2 says: About Layers Layers are available in OpenOffice.org Draw, not in OpenOffice.org Impress. .... OK, but why?? ;)
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Just checked in OOO 2.4 and still no change. Would be nice if that could be resolved in the 3.0 release. If there is a strong reason for discontinuing layers, I would be at least interested to know the reasons for it. I wonder whether other users find layers a helpful thing as well. And since Draw and Impress share much of the same code, it should not be a hard thing to have that implemented. For my workflow layers are really essential, and I am still working with version 1.1.5 for this reason. But... it would be really nice to be able to upgrade again...
not solved in 00o 3.0. Similar to issue 57904 which is confirmed, but have not target milestone
Duplicate per comment 5 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 57904 ***