Import pictures into open office document

Post by arew264 » Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:57 pm

I have a slide show I need to make that is basically going to be 50 images, each on a slide. Is there any automated way of inserting them as a group, or do I have to put in all 50 manually?
Is there any way this could be scripted, if nothing else?

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Re: Insert Multiple Images?

Post by acknak » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:16 am

There is no easy, built-in way to do this.

I would start by trying the "Impress Photo Album Creator" macro described in this article: Four great OpenOffice.org macros. There's a link in the article, but you'll have to make a couple of hops to get to the file. Here's a direct link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile . e_id=95976

Please let us know here how that works out.

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Re: Insert Multiple Images?

Post by arew264 » Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:29 am

That does exactly what I want, and because my pictures are literally named 1.tif. 50.tif, it puts them in the correct order to.
It automagically sizes them to fit in the slide while keeping the aspect ratio. it just does everything.
I'm going to have to look at how that macro was made.

arnold Posts: 1 Joined: Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:56 am

Re: [Solved] Insert Multiple Images?

Post by arnold » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:02 am

This was very helpful to me too. Thanks a lot.

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Re: [Solved] Insert Multiple Images?

Post by RLIBob » Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:24 am

Helped me too! Though for some reason not all of the images were in order. no problem however I used slide sorter. Sorting out was nowhere near as hard as d&d'ing 40+ images!

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Re: [Solved] Insert Multiple Images?

Post by bwithage » Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:42 am

Thanks for the help. This tip saved me a great deal of time creating a slide show for our RV group. Highly recommended.

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Re: [Solved] Insert Multiple Images?

Post by johnvk » Sun Oct 16, 2011 3:43 am

This worked for me also, 3 yrs later, in 2011. I posted a fairly detailed explanation of what i did here: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=450168

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Re: [Solved] Insert Multiple Images?

Post by theseahagger » Sun Feb 24, 2013 5:27 pm

Guys I just dragged and dropped picture from explorer into Impress. Worked just fine Open Office 3.4.1 on Windows 8 Libertychamp Posts: 1 Joined: Fri Mar 09, 2018 10:42 pm

Re: [Solved] Insert Multiple Images?

Post by Libertychamp » Fri Mar 09, 2018 10:52 pm

Not really solved. I am trying to insert more than 50 photos into a presentation one slide per photo. The zipped macro will not install not sure why, am using OO 4.15. Wasn't there an extension that allows you to do that?

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Re: [Solved] Insert Multiple Images?

Post by Hagar Delest » Sat Mar 10, 2018 3:33 pm

LibreOffice 24.2 on Xubuntu 24.04 and 7.6.4.1 portable on Windows 10 John_Ha Volunteer Posts: 9584 Joined: Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:51 pm Location: UK

Re: Insert Multiple Images?

Post by John_Ha » Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:42 am

arew264 wrote: . my pictures are literally named 1.tif . 50.tif

Be careful about using TIF files as uncompressed TIF files are enormous.

You should always use JPG for photos and things like photos (eg landscape paintings); and PNG or GIF for graphics, clip art, diagrams and anything with text.

See [Tutorial] Some useful hints on using images for a discussion on how best to handle images.

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Re: [Solved] Insert Multiple Images?

Post by John_Ha » Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:46 am

Libertychamp wrote: Not really solved.

Just do it manually by dragging each image file to the required slide. Centre the image and size it to the page size (keeping the aspect ratio).

All done quicker and with fewer keystrokes than downloading something and learning how to use it.

Be sure to give each image its own, separate anchor. If you anchor more than one image on the same anchor images overlap, overlay and easily get lost. See the Tutorial above.

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