Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 26137
Ability to annotate presentations
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:39:29 UTC
I'm sorry but this is a bit of a duplicate of issue #26028 because I feel that it was wrongfully called a duplicate of #10738. This is NOT a feature specific to Tablet PC's. It is a feature that anyone with a mouse could use on any OS (knew I should not have mentioned using a Microsoft product). I would like the ability to annotate and draw on a presentation while the presentation is in slideshow mode. Currently you can only draw in markup mode. Once the presentation is in slideshow mode a left click moves you to the next screen. The new PowerPoint 2003 allows you to add an annotation overlay onto the presentation. For example, as you give the presentation you could circle or underline key words with the mouse to highlight key points and these markups would be immediatly visable to the viewers. This would be particularily useful to teachers in Math and Physics as example equations and formulas could be drawn real-time on the slides in response to questions from the class. At the end of the presentation you could have the option of keeping or discarding the annotations. This would simply require allowing the drawing tools ALREADY PRESENT to be used during an active presentation. This has nothing to do with interfacing with a Microsoft Tablet or a Microsoft OS. You have the tools aready, they just need to me implemented. Jeff
Reassigned to Bettina.
Is the requested feature not already available? To enable: 1. Start Impress 2. Choose Slideshow->Slideshow Settings 3. Click Pointer as Pen
Is not the primary part of this issue already implemented? Also, saving pen marks is duplicate to issue 62973.
The WINDOWS version of PPT has a nice annotation/pen system to mark up slides, use 3 different kinds of pen and tons of colors, erase strokes one by one (not just erase the whole screen's worth of comments) and store annotations afterwards. The 2 last major revs of PPT have this. However, on a MAC, neither of the latest 2 versions have this capability, nor does Keynote. Nor does OpenOffice. This capability is becoming increasingly popular on campus with instructors having prepared slides that they would like to ink up in class. It's leading instructors toward tablet PCs running Windows and Office. I would make a STRONG pitch to add this capability to OpenOffice, at least for the Mac product, since it will mean wholesale jump from Office to OpenOffice by Mac users in schools and universities (like me). Please think about it.
I think that this issue should be closed (instead of morphed) because the basic functionality is already available. Changing the (line width and) color is already filed as follow-up issue 89447. Feel free to file additional follow-up issues (but search for them first).
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".