Sun Presenter Console

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The Presenter Console Extension provides more control over your slide show presentation, such as the ability to see the upcoming slide, the slide notes, and a presentation timer whereas the audience see only the current slide.
To avoid confusions by displaying a large number of presentation elements, the Presenter Console displays the elements on three different easily changeable views.

The first view displays the current slide, including the effects and the upcoming slide
The second view the speaker's notes in large, clear and scalable type plus the current and upcoming slide.
and a slide sorter view with the slide thumbnails on the third view.

You will easily love this Extension it helps you to drive your presentation smoothly, especially the notes view which keeps you away from paper notes.

This is just a beta version and it requires the OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta to work. Please help us to optimize this Extension, any feedback important for us.

Please note that the Presenter Console works only on an operating system that supports multiple displays.

Compatible with: OpenOffice.org 3.0 | StarOffice 9

Platform	Product details	Date	Size
Windows	1.0-Win32Intel	2008-Jul-11	1.81 MB
MacOS X	1.0-MacOSXIntel	2008-Jul-11	1.48 MB
Linux	1.0-LinuxIntel	2008-Jul-11	1.43 MB
Solaris x86	1.0-Solarisx86	2008-Jul-11	1.46 MB
Solaris Sparc	1.0-SolarisSparc	2008-Jul-11	1.58 MB
Windows	1.0.1-Win32Intel	2008-Aug-27	1.82 MB
MacOS X	1.0.1-MacOSXIntel	2008-Aug-27	1.49 MB
Solaris Sparc	1.0.1-SolarisSparc	2008-Aug-28	1.59 MB
Solaris x86	1.0.1-Solarisx86	2008-Aug-28	1.46 MB
Linux x86-64	1.0.1-Linuxx86-64	2008-Aug-28	1.43 MB
Linux	1.0.1-Linuxx86	2008-Aug-28	1.43 MB

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Provider: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Wed, 10/08/2008 - 17:45 — Rup.Xamqon

Again: 1.0.1-Linuxx86-64 needs change to description.xml

Same problem as dberkholz: "I had to unpack the 1.0.1-Linuxx86-64 extension and edit description.xml to change two instances of x86 to x86_64 before it would install."
Afterwards, it worked as expected.

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 22:06 — lbenitez

Awesome!!!

Works on OpenOffice v3 RC3 (m8) on my Mac OSX 10.5.5. At first the presenter console was in the wrong monitor (i.e. displayed through projector). After a while, I was able to figure out the issue....To fix this, go to Slide Show -> Slide Show Settings... and then under 'Multiple Monitors' set the Presentation Monitor to Monitor 2.

Enjoy!!

Now, if I could only get the pretty transitions that Keynote has, I may use this instead of Keynote! :)

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 15:52 — davelegge

Slides View

The Slides View would be much more useful if it tracked the current slide
Also, it would be good to see two or three 'next slides' on the regular
(current slide / next slide) view

Thu, 09/25/2008 - 20:13 — dkrenik

Can't get it to work..

Maybe I'm dense... I'm on a Mac (Intel cpu) running OOO 3.0.0 (00030m7 Build:9354) and I can't get the extension to come up under any of the menus. It does show up under Tools > Extension Manager and no where else.

Advice greatly appreciated.

Sun, 10/05/2008 - 12:59 — rowzain

Can't get it to work either

Just like dkrenik, I can't get this to work.
I have browsed through all the menus but find no setting, button or anything related to the Presenter Console.

Starting a presentation (F5) starts in the default mode, no Presenter Console anywhere.

I have two screens connected and working. I run Win XP, fully updated with OO 3, latest beta.

A good start towards solving this problem would be a plain, brief instruction here on how to start the Presenter Console!

update:
on this page ( http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/announcing_the_sun_presenter_console ) it says that the Presenter should display automatically if it detects two connected screens. As I said, it does not work in my case.
I also don't understand why I can't
(1) testdrive it on just one screen
(2) opt to NOT use it on two screens
It seems like bad design to not let the user toggle it on/off manually in some easy way.

update 2:
Here is another user who seems to have the same basic problem:
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=46210

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 08:39 — jumbo444

Two screens is not enough

To be able to use this extension, you must have two screens, but also that both screens are independent and don't show the same thing.
On WinXP, ask for properties of the desktop, Parameters tab, click on the second screen and check "Extend desktop to this screen" (or something with the same sense (I'm working in French environment)) ; choose the correct resolution. Then what is shown on the main screen is different from what is shown on the second screen.
According to parameters chosen in Impress (Slide show > Parameters of slide show > Multiple screens : choose screen for slide show), console will appear on main screen or second screen and slide show on the other screen.

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 09:53 — rowzain

That was not the problem. Anyway, works in OO3 rc3+

That was not the problem. I had two screens connected and was using "extend desktop" (not clone). It still did not work.

Anyway, it works OO3 rc3 and later so I suggest that anyone with similar problems to just update to that.

Wed, 09/24/2008 - 12:47 — jumbo444

Unable to change view type

Hello,

This is a great extension. There is however a small bug on my OOo300_rc2 (was here previously) WinXPSP3.
When extension is activated, but only one screen is used (which occurs often because there is not always a second screen or a video projector plugged to the computer) :
- open a file
- launch slide show
- stop slide show
=> it is no more possible to change view type (Normal/Plan/Notes/Prospectus/Slides sorter)* : tab is highlighted but view does not change.

An easy workaround is to activate this extension only when a second screen is used.

Thanks for your consideration.

* These may be not exact terms as I used a French version.

Sat, 09/13/2008 - 04:30 — dberkholz

1.0.1 Linuxx86-64 needs change to description.xml

I had to unpack the 1.0.1-Linuxx86-64 extension and edit description.xml to change two instances of x86 to x86_64 before it would install. The shared library was properly build for 64-bit, though.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 13:11 — adamb

Slide Sorter View

I like the Slide Sorter view but am limited to a 1024/768 resolution (an older laptop) on the presenter monitor and would like to be able to see at least 2 rows of 3 thumbnails of screens at this resolution so that I can easily skip back and forth between slides. Presently I can only see 4 slides at a time at this resolution.

It would also be great if the presenter view had settings so that it could be started in the slide sorter view.

Sat, 09/06/2008 - 12:45 — andreasma

Test with ATI Mobility Radeon 9700/64MB on openSuSE 10.3-i386

It works on my Laptop with the above configuration and the current ati-catalyst-driver. One little problem: the presentation on the second monitor is to near the bottom of the screen. I get a border above the presented slide.

Mon, 09/01/2008 - 10:11 — la_limbort

reset timer

I'd love to see a reset button next to the timer. Sometimes you just leave the first slide on without starting the presentation...
I'd also like to have a way to change the font of the notes displayed on the presenter screen.

Other then that, this extension is great and works well on OOo 3 beta 2

Sun, 08/31/2008 - 21:22 — barnpiece

Working on OOO300_m4

Pleased to report that it is working on OOO300_m4.

Richard

Wed, 08/20/2008 - 17:11 — barnpiece

Using on new builds

I have been trying to use the presenter console on builds since m28 up to OOO300_m3, and it has not worked on any of them. On m3 it causes serious problems with OpenOffice, culminating in error report to Microsoft.

Should it be working on these builds? If so, what should I look for to analyse my problem?

Richard

Sat, 08/16/2008 - 16:42 — jpickerell

Live Slide Show Editing

Good job on the presenter console extention. There are a few things I would have liked to see implemented a little differently, but overall, a very good release!

One item that I would still very much like to see (which is not directly linked to the presenter console) is the ability to bring back live editing. (see http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64670) I know that the live editing feature is not needed by many of your users, but it would be very benificial to many other users! There are many conference or Church type settings where it is very much beneficial (hugely beneficial!) to be able to edit (and even ADD new) slides to your presentation while in the middle of a presenation.

Keep up the good work! (and keep it comming!!!)

Thu, 07/24/2008 - 15:13 — HarlanH

another suggestion

It would be great if you could force use of the presentation manager, even if there is no secondary screen. This is very useful for practicing the talk even with no external monitor... Thanks!

Tue, 07/22/2008 - 10:06 — jumbo444

Extension does not work with DEV300_m26

Hello,

I'm disappointed because Presenter console does not work on my DEV300_m26 under WinXP. When launching presentation, it is shown on second screen, but first screen keeps its previous aspect. Moreover, the first screen is blocked : every click is counted for the presentation show.

I hope Presenter console will come back soon.

Wed, 07/16/2008 - 20:25 — HarlanH

some suggestions

Hi, great extension, thank you!

Two small suggestions so far....

It's inconvenient when the notes are longer than the area on the screen, and you have to shrink the text. Instead, I think the text should automatically shrink to fit.

It should be possible to pause or reset the timer, perhaps just by clicking on it.

Thanks!

Tue, 07/15/2008 - 08:43 — chris_at_oo

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