Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 79453
pdf export: support for animation & transition
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:33:39 UTC
like http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16036, it would be great that export pdf could support animation & transition. this is supported by pdf see chapter 8 and 9 of http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html
We export slide transitions but we have much more transitions then Acrobat Reader. Therefore it is possible that you see another slide transition in the Acrobat Reader then the seleced in OOo. I didn't found information about custom animations in PDF. Please tell me where I can find information about custom animations in PDF.
i think slides transitions can be soled as one of the following options chosen by user - export only one which exist in both - same but default chosen transition when none exists in pdf - no transition. Main point is animation. i've seen a pdf magazine with a lot of them, but i need to find again the link. else in pdf reference, version 1.7, animations can be done, i believe, through 3D streams (9.5.2) and transition actions (p. 670). i'll try to find the above example when i will have more time in a few weeks.
This is an enhancement.
*** Issue 79453 has been confirmed by votes. ***
Please note pdf could also have embedded video which, i believe, is not supported at this time.
I consider this feature is much important since there isn't a portable Impress Viewer. As a result, hardly for a people to take odp files with himself anywhere. Animation in pdf, I think, should deal with one situation first. That is, some contents are overlaid by a textbox which appears after an extra click.
I would definitely use a pdf export option to place the simple appear/disappear animations on separate pages of the pdf file.
I would agree with david1313 that basic Appear animations are by far the most crucial and useful; and probably the simplest to code, since this is "just" looping through the appeared elements, generating a new PDF page for each "snapshot". (I appreciate that the OpenOffice internals might mean this is *not* so simple to code!) And I'd also guess that Appears animations are by far the most common of all the custom animations.
(In reply to comment #8) > I would agree with david1313 that basic Appear animations are by far the most > crucial and useful; and probably the simplest to code, since this is "just" > looping through the appeared elements, generating a new PDF page for each > "snapshot". The extension ExpandAnimations does exactly this with "appear" and "disappear" animations (http://github.com/downloads/monperrus/ExpandAnimations/ExpandAnimations-latest.oxt). Regards, --Martin