Bug 137688 - Draw has very less save as formats add Impress formats
Summary: Draw has very less save as formats add Impress formats
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Draw (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Reported: 2020-10-22 19:57 UTC by andreas_k
Modified: 2020-10-24 10:35 UTC (History)
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Description andreas_k 2020-10-22 19:57:41 UTC
In Draw you can save a drawing only in .odg .otg and .fodg. Compare to other LibreOffice apps, there is no save as option to some file formats that are useful outside LibreOffice.

As Draw and Impress share a lot of it's codebase, would it be possible to save drawing as .odp, .ppt, ...

So it would be possible to open LibreOffice draw files outside LibreOffice for example with Powerpoint.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2020-10-22 20:43:26 UTC
This would not be correct. What would the use case be to save from Draw canvas to a different ODF archive format?

Export to vector or raster formats is appropriate and well supported.

But an ODF Drawing has limited applicability/support with our ODF Presentation editor 'Impress'--apples and oranges.

And, while filters could be written to save from Draw canvas into other external formats--the most functional remain our supported export formats.

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Comment 2 Regina Henschel 2020-10-22 20:53:39 UTC
(In reply to andreas_k from comment #0)
> So it would be possible to open LibreOffice draw files outside LibreOffice
> for example with Powerpoint.

You can open an .odg file in Impress and save it to a PowerPoint compatible format there.
The filter is in the drop-down list in the Open-dialog. Look for "ODF Drawing (Impress)(*.odg)". It is the next one after "ODF Presentation Template".
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2020-10-23 09:19:21 UTC
Taking Regina's solution as the supposed workflow => NAB.
Comment 4 andreas_k 2020-10-23 10:17:59 UTC
Thanks for feedback.

maybe we should give our users the message if someone didn't know how it work, wrote a bug report.

However I'm fine with NAB. I didn't get the workaround from Regina working.
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2020-10-24 08:26:36 UTC
(In reply to andreas_k from comment #4)
> I didn't get the workaround from Regina working.

Insert > Object > OLE Object... and either you create a new LibreOffice Drawing or choose From File and pick what you have created before.
Comment 6 Regina Henschel 2020-10-24 10:35:25 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5)
> (In reply to andreas_k from comment #4)
> > I didn't get the workaround from Regina working.
> 
> Insert > Object > OLE Object... and either you create a new LibreOffice
> Drawing or choose From File and pick what you have created before.

That is not what I have proposed and it is quite different, because you get an OLE object.
If the regular "open" does not work (why not?), an alternative is this: Set the slide size to the same width and height as used in the Draw-document. Then use menu Slide > Insert Slide from File.