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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.
Contents
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
Development Documentation
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.
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
