Issue 4192

Summary:	Save/Export presentations as plain text
Product:	Impress	Reporter:	Unknown <non-migrated>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	falko.tesch
Status:	CLOSED WONT_FIX	QA Contact:	issues@graphics <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	horkana, issues
Version:	641
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description Unknown 2002-04-23 09:07:31 UTC

Often I have to write a summary of a presentation. For example, proceedings of a
scientific conference (often to be submitted as TeX/LaTeX files) are often made
this
way. I make my presentations and posters with the OpenOffice Presenter.
If the presentations could be saved or exported as plain text (or in TEX/LaTeX
format) life would be easier. ISO-LATIN1 encoded text would be the best for me,
but even plain ASCII would be nice. For presentations with plenty of formulae,
TeX support would be great.

I tried to circumvent this by 'Export => Web Page' and then 'Save as text' from
the browser, but then HTML export is also practically one big image.

Comment 1 wolframgarten 2002-06-11 09:32:22 UTC

Reassigned to Christian.

Comment 2 christian.guenther 2002-06-25 11:03:02 UTC

This is not a bug. I change the Issue type to enhancement
Hi Falko, please have a look about this enhancement.

Comment 3 falko.tesch 2003-10-01 09:44:47 UTC

ASCII export is one of the export filters that make hardly any sense
for a presentation (that is layout orientated).
Your request is unique and there are many workarounds possible (such
as using Writer for such specific tasks).
Nevertheless you can write yourself a little script that extracts the
text right from the XML source.

Comment 4 falko.tesch 2003-10-01 09:45:28 UTC

closed

Comment 5 gtimur 2007-01-08 11:15:11 UTC

I have the same request and the same problem: I need the document out of the
presentation. 
The better option is "Export as .RTF" which would preserve headings, but if it
is not possible, then "Export as .TXT" is also useful.

Comment 6 gtimur 2007-04-03 09:45:08 UTC

Please reopen this issue or provide a circumvention. If the presentation is
mostly text, there is no way to make a document, except manually. Thank you.