When I download a presentation, typically I want to just quickly go through it and in most cases I do not need to store the slides afterwards. Unfortunately authors either willingly or unwillingly (using a corporate template) include slide transition effects that take several seconds. This is a royal pain to deal with. I've only found one way to deal with that - to save the file somewhere and then to select all slides and set no transition for them. Then manually delete the file. This is not really friendly. It would be great if I could disabl/skip transition effects in read-only mode.
If you want have a quick look at a presentation you received by mail, you have a better solution: - open it from your email software, - the file is opened in read-only mode - click on the button "Edit document" in the infobar then you can choose the Slide Sorter mode with the Display Views button. In the slide sorter mode you are not annoyed by transitions nor animation. Does that solve the issue for you? Set status to NEEDINFO, please set it back to UNCONFIRMED once requested informations are provided. Best regards. JBF
Not really. The slides in slide sorter view are way too small and smaller letters aren't legible. However I wasn't aware of the edit button. Now I can do: click on the button "Edit File" Click any slide in the Slides column ctrl-a to select all Right click a slide Select Slide Transition Move the mouse over to the other end of the screen scroll up the list of transitions, since the presentation has Fade smoothly, which for a reason beyond me is near the end. select No transition Hit F5 to go through the slides Still, if there was a configuration option to disable silly effects ... :-)
(In reply to tropikhajma from comment #2) > Not really. > The slides in slide sorter view are way too small and smaller letters aren't > legible. Even if you choose 1 slide per row ? Anyway, you have an easier and faster way to watch a read-only slideshow without being annoyed by animation and slide transitions: click on the pdf export button. If, the first time you need to export to pdf, you did that by File > Export as PDF and checked "View PDF after export", then you only have to click the PDF export button to see the PDF. Best regards. JBF
Yep, this is kind of an edge case. You can enlarge the slide sorter (click the edge and drag) so there is no problem and it is faster than the PDF way. Closing.