Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:05:31 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OOo question..... Message-ID: <20100117030531.GB816@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <201001161028.00121.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> References: <20100116000928.GA96431@thought.org> <201001161028.00121.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
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On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:27:59AM +0000, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Saturday 16 January 2010, Gary Kline wrote: > > > this may be offtopic but it does deal with our OO.org port. > > a friend sent me a very nice "slideshow" in powerpoint format. I've > > saved it (and the original) somewhere in the evolution directory so > > all the photos are safe. first question is: can I save an individial > > image using Openoffice? > > Select the slide then right click on the image and select "Save as > Picture" near the bottom of the menu. If you're lucky this will work - > I've tried this with 3 different MS Powerpoint files and it worked fine > with two of them but didn't even give me the "Save as Picture" option > with the other one :-( I found out that the "save as picture" is a right-click that sometimes works, and siometimes does NOT. [??] also that there is also sometimes the option in the dropdown or pop-up menu (with the right click) that lets you save as a bitmap. xxx.PNG. so, nutshell, I was albe to save three of the ones I liked most. it took me long enough. I did check OOoforum, but nothing there. your info plus my own messing around let me get the job done. [[well, mostly!]] > > > Second q is howto use them for my desktop backgrounds in KDE since, > > upon rebuild and relaunch, everything is black. the first question > > is howto save a separate image? or are there other tools to do this? > > [neither xv nor gv work] > > Right click on a blank piece of the KDE desktop and select "Configure > Desktop". This should open with the "Change the background settings" > icon highlighted. In the "Background" section click the "Picture" radio > button and click the folder icon on the right to browse to your > selected image. (Several hours later). I found the place and added three 'wallpapers'; they haven't appeared. Probably will after I've rebooted. ---I see that my newest KDE is 3.5.10. Sometime this year I'll try KDE4 again.-- Meanwhile, thanks for your help! > > -- > Mike Clarke -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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