Give some thought to a matching set of 16:9 format templates, since most decent modern projectors are natively wide-screen.
Thanks for new idea At least screens (monitors) already are widescreen. Step to reproduce: in Impress do Format->Page, tab "Page", field "Format" There is format "Screen" but no format "Widescreen" reproduced in 3.5.1 on Fedora 64 bit
Thanks for reply to my email: I'd just about given up on hearing anymore about this one. As far as I can remember, my original desire was to create widescreen (16:9) format presentations. You can easily get 16:9 aspect ratio pages by playing with the paper sizes, thats not a problem. what stops me dead every time is that all the templates are firmly built round an assumption of 4:3 aspect ratio. What I needed was a complete, ground up, 16:9 aspect solution starting from the templates and working up. I've looked at generating a new set of templates (briefly) but there is only room for just so much pain in my life. There must be a way to generate a template file, but I haven't found it yet. This is going to be a future necessity, as all decent modern displays and projection systems are now 16:9 format. Sorry for can not understand this: >What I needed was a complete, ground up, 16:9 aspect solution starting from the >templates and working up. What exactly should be done besides of adding new template?
I second this request for enhancement in order to make wide screen presentations easier to create. I guess the first step would be indeed to have in Format -> Page the choice between "Screen" and "Wide screen" like Sasha proposed it. I assume that this is an EasyBug. Could you please add it to the EasyBug list?
@ Rainer Users want this bug to be added to EasyBugs. We need Your advice here. Best regards. sasha
Side note:To make the solution more comprehensive, it would make sense to also add a check box for the 16:9 format in the presentation wizard (File -> Wizards -> Presentation). Currently, there are only check boxes for "Overhead sheet", "Paper", "Screen" and "Slide".
Since Saturday I own a new 16:9 Monitor, so for today I had this on my agenda :-) IMHO we should leave the current Screen format with new name "Screen 4:3" and add a new one "Screen 16:9" Ivan: Do you agree with making it "EasyHack"?
The page format will also be required for DRAW. May be the Wizard enhancement should be separated to a different bug depending on this one?
Hmm, The report was about the templates, why we are talking about UI improvements here? :) (In reply to comment #6) > Saturday I own a new 16:9 Monitor Congrats! ;) > IMHO we should leave the current Screen format with new name "Screen 4:3" and > add a new one "Screen 16:9" Well, "Screen" is 28cm:21cm. But I wonder what the name "Screen" means. What screen? My screen? No, my screen has different proportions and size. Or it means 'typical 4:3 screen'? Then where this 'typical' comes from? Any statistics? But seriously: I am a bad English speaker and I have no idea of the name. And what size we will use (in cm)? > Do you agree with making it "EasyHack"? Sure, it is quite easy. Code pointers: cui/source/tabpages/page.(src|cxx) - page setup. sd/source/ui/dlg/dlgass.(src|cxx) - presentation wizard (In reply to comment #7) > May be the Wizard enhancement should be separated to a different bug depending > on this one? No, it should not I think.
@Ivan: Thank you for your post. You are right that two thing got mixed up: a) the addition for a "page" format for 16:9 and b) to add templates for 16:9. Shall we create two different bug entries for that?
(In reply to comment #9) > Shall we create two different bug entries for that? probably yes, but a) needs some discussion.
I wasn't sure how deep this would need to go, or what the complications might be, but what I need to do is to give presentations on 16:9 format large screen projectors. This means setting up 16:9 format templates (if there is any documentation on how to build a template from scratch, point me towards it please!) and having them handled correctly (for certain values of correct). Bear in mind that I may have to run Presentation Manager on a 4:3 format laptop screen.
As for sizes, I would prefer to think in pixels (as in 1920x1080), rather than centimeters, my screen sizes run from 8 feet wide to 60 feet. As long as I can do that I don't mind what size you choose, what matters to me is the aspect ratio.
Since this bug had already been renamed to "UI wide screen format (16:9): Add Page size and radio buttons 16:9 / 4:3 in Presentation Wizard", I follow Ivan's suggestion to open a second bug entry for the addition of 16:9 templates to LibreOffice Impress. There is the other Bug 48616 I apologize the confusion!
I just searched the internet how to create 16:9 presentations in Impress. As it seems there are "metric" and "imperial measures" advice in the Internet: In a book by Jacquline Rahmehipour et al. (page 63) they suggest: 28 x 15.75 cm In a youtube video gotoguyenterprises suggests: 16" x 9" Since the previous one (the metric one) is more reasonable for printing I think it is the way to go. Is it? Links: Book: http://books.google.de/books?id=Iu8LZjDR9RAC&lpg=PA62&ots=ghY36ZKmZt&dq=Master%20im%2016%3A10-%20oder%2016%3A9-Format%20erstellen%20openoffice&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6GF5mLhaEs
Rob Snelders committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=9c99dac0968c405537cd6094a46c7f6de01ccc4e fdo#42986 Add Presentationsize 16:9 Widescreen
This bug is solved with the patch I send.
Can anyone add this enhancement to the page "Release Notes 3.6" on wiki.documentfoundation.org? I think a brief description about it is still missing there. Thanks.
added it to the https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.6#Impress
*** Bug 51285 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #19) > *** Bug 51285 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Hi, Hope to see this issue is fixed. And sorry for the duplicate bug.(Just learning to search :)) Could you add the option for 16:10 size, which ratio is quite popular on laptops. MS Impress has this ratio too. Best regards, Zeki
(In reply to comment #20) > MS Impress has this ratio too. I mean MS PowerPoint :) Btw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16:10 states that industry moves away from 16:10 to 16:10, however people have purchased this screens and they are still in use. Regards, Zeki
> 16:10 to 16:10, however people have purchased this screens and they are still How it can be?
(In reply to comment #22) > > 16:10 to 16:10, however people have purchased this screens and they are still > How it can be? They are still on the market. Today one asked about this issue on 1440x900 desktop monitor. Also laptops are on sale 1280x800. Here[1],For example one of the largest on-line elecronics store, sales monitors: 16:9 (Wide Screen) 90 unique items 16:10(Wide Screen) 6 unique items 4:3 (Normal Screen) 4 unique items Those will have min 3 years of usage time. I think my Plasma TV has 16:10 too :) 1- http://www.hepsiburada.com/liste/monitorler/department.aspx?CategoryId=57
> 16:10 to 16:10, however people have purchased this screens and they are still I mean that from 16:10 to the same 16:10. Something mistyped. I know that it is boring to manufacturers to nothing change. And therefore they change all things all time.
Created attachment 63363 [details] Patch to have 16:10 format in Impress Here is the patch that adds it. I'll try to send it to gerrit tomorrow so it gets into master
added it to gerrit
Rob Snelders committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b8c5f6577911ebb15ad7eb7f60ad5bb9d8d37f0b fdo#42986 - UI wide screen format (16:10): Add Page size
It's great to have 16:9 format as a possibility in Impress, but it should also be able to open 16:9 .pptx presentations of MS Office correctly - currently it still displays them in 4:3 by default causing elements to fall off-screen. Should I open a new bug for this?
Please open a new bug for this. This is a problem then with opening/saving pptx-format.
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (ProposedEasyHack -> needsDevEval, DifficultyBeginner TopicUI ) [NinjaEdit]
Rob Snelders committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://www.desibona.com/baston-puset-bebek-arabasi