Reassigned to Wolfram.

Changed to new.

Reassigned to Falko.

I guess there are more than one program that does slideshows for JPEGs
better than any presentation program.

closed

I think you are missing the point, I strongly disagree that the
existance of other programs is reason enough to close this bug report.  

Being able to quickly and easily generate a slideshow based on a set
of images would be a useful feature for OpenOffice to have
(I'm not concerned about the image type by the way).  

If you are in this circumstance (and it is my belief that many users
are) and you want to create a slideshow in OpenOffice format it is
incredibly tedious to try and create them one by one.  

Does the OpenOffice project really allow the same person to Resovle
and Close a bug report?  The other projects I have seen always insist
on different users so that there is some necessary oversight.  

I really think this is a worthwhile feature, Wolfram was willing to
accept it as new, so I'd really like a second opinion before accepting
this bug as completely closed.  

Ok, my comment might haven been a bit short, sorry about this :o(
If you want to export your presentation to JPEG please use the
HTML-export feature. Here you will get your JPEG's _plus_ HTML pages
that embed those JPEGs.
FYI, for feature issues we agreed that one person can reject _and_
close an issue. AFAIK this is not possible for reported bugs though.
And that Wolfram accepted this issue means in this case nothing else
that this issue is a valid feature request but does not contain any
validation or evaluation in this case!

closed

> If you want to export your presentation to JPEG please use the

It is really very difficult to take you seriously or believe that you
understand what we are asking when you say things like that.  Export
has no relevance to what we are requesting.  

We have both stated that we want to _create_ new slides from a
collection of images (not even JPEGs necessarily) quickly and easily.  
We want to be able to select multiple images and insert one per page
to quickly create a slideshow.  
I can understand that this might be an extremely low priority, however
I cannot understand that it is not a worthwile feature worth
implementing in due course.  Mark Fox stated offlist that this feature
is available in Apple Keynote, hopefully he will repeat his comments
here as I have already asked him to do.  

I am quite familiar with the export facilities of the slideshow program.  

Offlist Mark Fox expressed his continued interest in this
functionality and I still being able to quickly and easily generate a
slideshow like this is a killer feature.  
Other programs doing this "better than any presentation program"
merely suggests that we need a better presentation programa and that
this is not just an enhancement but a honking great big flaw.  

I would really appreciate if you would not close this bug again
without more substantial reasons.  I would appreciate if you could 
get a second opinion and third opinion for Closing and Verifying this
request that seems to have been misunderstood.     

I would suggest tweaking the title to something like: 
"batch convert images to slides, one image per slide"

I submitted this suggestion originally.Maybe it would help if I
explained its utility carefully.I (and many of my colleagues) often
make large presentations that are 50-75% images and the rest text
slides. We add each image one at a time with Powerpoint. It would be a
huge time savings to dump the image folder into the program and then
only have to make the text slides.Interestingly, this feature was
added to Keynote by Apple.

Thanks to all of you that work on OpenOffice.I am grateful for a
Microsoft alternative.

Mark

Sorry, I mixed this issue up with another one...
I think this happens if one works on too many issues in too little
time :o(
Again, sorry about that.

Nevertheless:
We have about 2000(!) open issues that are flagged "Enhancement" or
"Feature" plus another 1000 or so that are already evaluated and we
really have to draw a line somewhere.
Due to a given timeline and an existing roadmap most of these issues
will/did not make it into 2.0 anyway anymore.
So the bulk goes for "Office later". There again we have to determine
what might be important to implement and what is less important.
The less important stuff therefore will be turned down and closed.

Now let me explain why I do turn down and close this issue finally:
1. It does not fit in our (very tight) roadmap for 2.0
2. It is (as already stated) a very low priotised feature
3. In most cases poeple use the _same_ background for their
presentations (or 2 or 3 different ones)
4. This issue has no vote
5. OO.o is an OpenSource project so everyone can feel free to modify
and add the product to her/his tastes.
If such function is really needed by a very few people it is
legitimate to ask those folks to create their own project and
eventually distribute their code.
And exactly that's what I will do now.

Closed