How do I export all slides at the same time?

[Jay BB]

Hi,
My first post.
How do I export all slides at the same time?
To export a single slide I click on
File
Export
then I find the folder I want to save into
then I select "save as type" from the drop down
then click on SAVE
then click OK on pop-up box.

I have over 30 slides in each presentation! So this is taking ages as the Export menue reverts to the original every time, so I have to re enter all my information every time!
I really hope someone can explain how to export ALL the slides at the same time from a presentation.

Many thanks
Jay

[Hagar Delest]

See: [Issue] Save as ".jpg" format.

Thanks to add '[Solved]' at beginning of your first post title (edit button) if your issue has been fixed.

[Jay BB]

Thanks for your reply. I have read through all the posts and it doesn't seem like I can export all the slides together as GIF or JPEG. When I tried to export as HTML as suggested it simply saved as one file which opens in Adobe, but I need them to be GIF or JPEG to use with Memories On Web to create a slide show with combined text and images with music, called a Mind Movie.

As stated on other posts there is a need for the Open Office Presentation to have an "Export All" option.

If there are other simple options I'd really appreciate replies.

Many thanks
Jay

[acknak]

Exporting as html will do what you want. Use File > Export, File type: HTML. You'll get a wizard-style dialog window to take you through all the settings. You can pretty much ignore everything but the image settings.

Several files will be created from each slide; one of those files is an image or the slide in standard PNG, GIF or JPEG format. You can do whatever you want with the image files and delete the rest.

Make sure when you select a location for the export that you create a separate folder to put the exported files in. Otherwise it's a job to clean up all the extra files.

[debianuser2010]

I had a PowerPoint slideshow which I wished to extract all images from. I changed the extension from .pps to .ppt to stop the automatic play, then I opened with Ooo 3.2.1 on Debian Squeeze. However, when exporting as an html page it does not launch a wizard and save the images as individual files in a folder. Instead it embeds all slides/images (base64-encoded) into a single, large html file. I therefore still must individually Save As for each image from my browser. Does anyone know how to change this behavior?

Thanks!

[Hagar Delest]

Save the file as ODF (.odp) and then open the file with an archive manager. Extract the /pictures folder, they are all inside.

[leighdf]

@Hagar, the Pictures directory contains the raw images used in composing the slides, not images of the slides themselves. They'll be the same only if your entire slide consists of one image (no text), no cropping, no formatting...

In my experience, the best way for non-programmers is to follow acknak's suggesting of exporting to HTML. Just use plain HTML, not XHTML, no ASP, etc. Put it in a directory by itself. You'll be asked for a format for the images. Choose JPEG, select a resolution and compression. When it's done, sort the output directory by extension and get your jpg files (img1.jgp, img2.jpg, etc)

For programmers, dfrench has a nice bit of BASIC thats easily adapted here: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=8985