[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 53391] New: Would be nice to be able to save a set of drawing pages as a presentation

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53391

             Bug #: 53391
           Summary: Would be nice to be able to save a set of drawing
                    pages as a presentation
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 3.6.0.4 release
          Platform: x86-64 (AMD64)
        OS/Version: Mac OS X (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Drawing
        AssignedTo: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: ch3pjw at bath.ac.uk


Impact:
As a user, I don't know how easily to get a series of drawing pages into a
format that I can present to others. For example, I've made some UI mockups as
a several-page drawing file, and now my boss has asked me to present them
full-screen to my team in a meeting room with a projector.

Reproduction:
 - Make a drawing with a series of pages
 - Think "Actually, I want to present this stuff directly as a presentation"
 - See that there is no "SlideShow" menu in a drawing, so I can't just present
my drawing file
 - Think "Ah, I'll just save my drawing as a presentation - they are pretty
much the same"
 - Fail to find a good way to convert my drawings between drawing (.odg) format
and presentation format (.odp) that didn't involve me copying and pasting every
single page of my drawings.

Expected behaviour:
I would expect that there is a format option "ODF Presentation (.odp)" format
option in the "Save as..." dialogue. If "Save as..." is perhaps inappropriate,
I would search in the "export" dialogue. In the newly created presentation, I
wouldn't expect anything more than each slide has been assigned the blank
layout, but has all my drawing stuff present.

If LibreOffice were to do anything funky, it'd be quite cool if it found the
first (top-left for English) piece of text in the drawing and made it the slide
title (without changing the actual drawing formatting), so that I had a rough
outline of my work ready for me.

The other alternative to saving a different docuemtn might be to make it easy
to present a drawing, but I favour the format conversion as it keeps the roles
of the documents more distinct.

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