How do I print a presentation's outline text?

[redhead08]

HELP!! I am a college student and am required to print out a power point's outline. I opened it up with Impress and selected the "outline" heading. I cannot figure out how to print out the outline and NOT the power point slides. Everyt ime I try to print it, I end up printing the slides instead. Can someone please help me? I need to do this biweekly for my class. I do have an Apple Mac. I really need help ASAP. Thank you.

[alcortes]

Chose "Outline" on the "Print content" section of the "print" dialog.

It is barely mentioned on the first paragraph of the "chapter 10: printing" from the OpenOffice.org 2.x Impress Guide

[TheGurkha]

Hi and welcome to the forums.

File > Print and then choose Outline from the 'Content' drop-down.

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[redhead08]

I don't have a content drop down when I select print. I'm not given much to change when i select print and it keeps showing me the actual slides, not the outline. I cannot find print dialogue either. Im not sure what's wrong.

[TheGurkha]

Sorry, I don't have a Mac to play with to try anything. In Windows and Linux you get a Print dialog with a bunch of different options.

Edit: You are picking the Print option from the File menu, not just clicking the printer icon, aren't you?

[redhead08]

Yes, I am going to FILE and then clicking PRINT. The problem is once the print window comes up, I don't have any of these options about selecting what I want to print. It just automatically shows me a preview of the slides.. not the outline.

[TheGurkha]

I guess we need a Mac guru to come along...

[james_h]

If your system does not allow you to print an Impress outline directly, just copy the information into a Writer document and print that.

In your presentation, click the Outline View
Edit > Select > All
Edit > Copy
Open a new blank OpenOffice.org Writer document
Edit > Paste
While the text is all selected, choose a font, text colour and background colour, and size.
File > Print

[TheGurkha]

The trouble with that though is it looks nothing like an outline!

If you set a font size it applies it to all of the text and you lose the differentiation between the different levels. The indentation is all messed up too.

[eparr002]

Ok, I was having problems w/ this too but finally figured it out after about an hour of fiddling around, trying to copy text into word doc, etc.

I found this in the open office FAQ:
In the print dialog (File > Print) click the Contents listbox and select Notes.

Mac OS X (10.6.2): Select Notes under File > Printer Settings... > Options....

another tip is to ONLY select Notes. to do this I had to click the 'notes' checkbox before un-selecting the 'slides' box.