gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » open office plugin http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:24:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Open Office Presentation Minimizerhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/06/open-office-presentation-minimizer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/06/open-office-presentation-minimizer/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:00:12 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/06/open-office-presentation-minimizer/ Looks like it is Open Office day here at Ghacks. We bring you another cool plugin for Open Office after the incredible useful Presenter Console plugin for Open Office. Sun’s Presentation Minimizer is available as a plugin for all supported operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It can be used to minimize the size of Open Office presentations to make it easier to transfer the presentation.

The plugin will remove unnecessary data from the Open Office presentation and compress images automatically. This can be for instance useful before transferring a presentation for print so that it can be presented on screen which usually does not require the same quality of the images and can reduce the size of the presentation a lot. The Presentation Minimizer can also replace OLE objects with images.

It can also remove notes or hidden and blank slides (slides that are not used in the presentation) to further minimize the size of the presentation and prevent that confidential information are distributed with the presentation. This feature alone might make it useful even without reducing the size by compressing images.

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The user can pick between jpeg and lossless compression. The former allowing to select the quality level of the images. A wizard will display the size reduction in the end with the option to open the resized presentation afterwards. It is also interesting to note that the Presentation Minimizer will work with both Open Office presentations and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/06/open-office-presentation-minimizer/feed/ 2 Sun Presenter Console For Open Officehttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/06/sun-presenter-console-for-open-office/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/06/sun-presenter-console-for-open-office/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:15:41 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/06/sun-presenter-console-for-open-office/ Sun’s Presenter Console is a plugin for Open Office that is available for all supported operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and various other systems. The main purpose of the Open Office plugin is to aid presenters during presentations by displaying additional information on their screen. It works by showing the presenter information that is not shown to the audience. A typical example would be a situation where a laptop and beamer would be used during the presentation. The laptop would display the additional information to the presenter while the beamer would simply display the current slide of the presentation.

The presenter console displays the current slide, a smaller preview of the upcoming slide and a tool bar with navigational buttons and the current and elapsed time. There are additional options to display the notes of the current slide and view a slide overview which is also excellent for quick navigation.

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The presenter console will automatically detect if more than one screen is available. Sun’s presenter console is able to detect the screen that is used for the presentation and will automatically display itself on the other display.

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