Impress

OpenOffice.org Impress is the presentation application of OpenOffice.org.

The application's source code is located in module sd. The mailing list for developer discussions related to Impress is dev@graphics.openoffice.org, to subscribe mailto:dev-subscribe@graphics.openoffice.org and then reply to the subscription mail sent to you to verify subscription. The project's webpage is http://graphics.openoffice.org/

For wiki articles related to the project see Category:Impress.

People

• working permanently on the code

  Kai Ahrens

  project lead, all areas

  Christian Lippka

  co-lead, view, core, API, ODF

  Andre Fischer

  view, Accessibility, Presenter Screen, drawing framework

  Sven Jacobi

  Microsoft Powerpoint import/export filters, graphic filters, custom shapes, extensions

  Armin Le Grand

  drawing engine, basegfx

• External (non Sun) contributors, contributing to Impress improvement

  Eric Bachard

  Education Project lead, porting project (Mac OS X, Linux and OpenSolaris), sd, slideshow, vcl, and other areas

• QA

  Wolfram Garten

  all areas incl. testtool automation

  Christoph Lukasiak

  all areas

Development Documentation

Working with Presentations

Work in Progress

• Adding primitive support for drawing layer (supporting smother geometry and anti aliasing)
• Office 12 XML import filter
• Impress OpenDocument load/save performance Impress/Performance#OpenDocument
• Impress slideshow performance Impress/Performance#Slideshow

Planned / ToDo's / Seeking for Community support

The following features/enhancements are planned for one of the upcoming releases. Planned means that we would like to do them but all depends on time & resources. If you like to contribute to one of the following please contact us in the mailing list dev@graphics.openoffice.org

• Annotation support
• Intelligent Groups (Smart Art like implementation of Diagram, Flowchart, Orgcharts, e.t.c. )
• Embedded Sounds
• Implementing User Interface changes as soon as provided by the Project Renaissance
• Internal SVG support as a seperate graphic type across all applications (e.g. via Format=>InsertGraphic), maybe using already existing implementations like libsvg or the Mozilla SVG solution
• Accessing external picture/clipart repositories like 'Kaltura', 'Flickr' or 'Open Clip Art' for insertion/managing of graphics inside documents
• Automatically create complete presentation documents based on a set of pictures from local directories or external picture/clipart repositories
• Adding a media backend on Unix systems based on 'libavcodec'

Queries

Presentation/Draw issues with 10 or more votes

Draft Specifications

The following is a list of specifications for draw or impress that is currently working on. Please feel free to discuss this specifications on the dev@graphics.openoffice.org mailing list.

• Tables in impress
• Working on terminology in impress
• Text fields
• Color Picker

Other work in progress improving Impress

• Apple Remote implementation on Mac OS X
• Education Project Effort : Improve Impress
• Education Project and Ecole Centrale Nantes : Tablet PC, Eraser, and colored pen in overlay with Impress

Patches

• Patches for Impress
• Patches for Draw