Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Just switch! - Sharing StarOffice presentations via Flash
If you always wondered how you can share StarOffice presentations with people who are not using StarOffice yet, the feature I want to talk about today might be the solution.

The feature is actually not new. It got introduced with version 7 of the StarOffice software. The feature I'm talking about is the Macromedia Flash export. This is the presentation I want to export:

First, I have to invoke "File - Export ...":

Next, I have to select the Flash file format:

After a few seconds I have a Flash file, which I can open in any browser that has a Flash plug-in.

If I have to do a presentation at an event, I always have a Flash version of my presentation on a memory stick with me (in addition to the source file in the StarOffice format). Thus, if my laptop breaks, I'm still able to do my presentation from any other machine that can display Flash files.
( Mai 02 2005, 04:36:53 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [2]

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Great tip! Another thing I'm constantly looking for is export handouts as pdf's... I have the impression StarOffice alone won't make me do this. Also, why is it that your Firefox screenshots always show the find toolbar? You don't have that on your screen all the time, do you?

Gesendet von Blimundus am Mai 03, 2005 at 08:51 PM CEST #

Hm what about the operating systems for which Macromedia doesn't even have Flash plugin? They even don't provide a 64-bit Firefox plugin for Linux or Windows for AMD64. Another thing that would also be great is to be able to embed fonts when saving presentation. It often happens that the target machine doesn't have the font you used and then the presentation (or any other OpenDocument) looks wrong or even bad.

Gesendet von Jure Repinc am Mai 07, 2005 at 03:15 PM CEST #

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