Oracle Presenter Console

This beautiful extention is not working with thelatest realease of Oo, the 3.4 relaese.
That is a pitty I do need it for my presentation.

Will the extention be upgraded for oo 3.4?

When showing a presentation, we use Presenter Console 1.1.0 with LibreOffice.
Works great, but when we want to show something else, while keeping the Impress open, it works not so great.
Sometimes we need to to interrupt the Impress presentation, and show a video instead.
The video is not imbedded in the presentation, but accessed via Alt+Tab.
When we want to show the video, it appears that Presenter Console is still controlling all the display settings, and therefore we are unable to show the video without shutting down Impress.
It would be nice to have some easy method to control Presenter Console to interrupt control the moment an other program is in need of Display-functions.

Is that possible?

Dream

I tried to install the presenter console (OO 3.3.0 and presenter console 1.1.0, windows 7) and got error messages like: "cannot get symbol" errors for msvcr90.dll, msvcp90.dll, and msvcm90.dll. Turns out that if I rename the download from "oracle-presenter-screen.zip" to "oracle-presenter-screen.oxt", then (no OO things open) doubled clicked on the .oxt file - hey presto, installed correctly without any errors. When the extension was downloaded as "oracle-presenter-screen.zip" this caused the extension to fail to install using the Extension Manager.

I request that the downloads be changed to have .oxt extensions ...

I have a new Microsoft Windows 7 Laptop. Have installed Open Office and using Impress with the Oracle Presenter Console and a second display (LCD projector). I have entered notes into the notes pages (via the notes tab) but when displaying my presentation, the notes do not appear in the presenter Console. There is a box where they SHOULD be, but it is empty.

(It worked fine on my old laptop, which was Microsoft Windows XP.)

Any idea how to fix this? - I don't really want to have to print sheaves of paper out to hold in my hand when presenting.

Thanks

I have just started using the Presenter View plugin and had a problem with it when it comes to custom animation. In presenter view the next slide is displayed and you can see what is to come. The problem is when the next slide has got custom animation included. When it has custom animation included the next slide does not show what the next point is to be displayed. It shows the next slide and then when I click on the advance arrow the slide goes white and I cant see what the next point will be. This does not work as many of my slides have custom animation and I need to see what the next point is.

Is there something that I am doing wrong or is this how this plugin works?

Brian

Sadly, the old versions of the plugin are at the top. So please pay attention to the version you download!

I tried to get the wrong version working without success on Openoffice 3.3. Right now (April 11, 2011) the following combination works for me: Mac OS 10.6.7, OpenOffice 3.3 and PresenterConsole 1.1.0 (not 1.0.3!).
Hope all Windows/Linux Users have equal luck.

(I selected "Display 2" in the Slideshow Preferences to show the actual presentation on the projector and the notes etc. on my laptop screen.)

The presenter's console itself (the one showing the new slide or comments) doesn't work for me on W7 since I switched to 3.3 beta. Please Oracle, do fix that, it's a vital tool when doing professional presentations with OOo. Even shouldn't be an extension but be built-in!

Please, remove the 'feature' which forces you to use fullscreen on your primary monitor. This just doesn't make any sense, the small taskbar at the bottom is so small that you don't really gain anything with respect to readability of the presenter view but you lose sooooo much... Like the ability to quickly launch VLC to play an mp3 or to open a pdf where you got some figures which are too many to put into the notes but which you need to do the presentation or to type instant messages (which in some cases might not be a joke but really helpful when you got an expert on Skype to answer questions by the audience etc. etc.)
To sum up: Being forced to fullscreen you lose LOTS of advantages and you gain NOTHING at all. So please, change that, and I guess that (unlike the wishes for live-editing) should be so easily put into the programme as to take only a couple of minutes for the programmer.

If you do change it, I'd be willing to contribute 500$ to the project!

If I switch to the multiple-slide ("slide-sorter") view, I see the list of slides in the slideshow, as expected. But if I use the arrow keys / etc. to change slide, the slide view stays the same, rather than scrolling down to show the currently selected slide.

This is worse when I'm in the middle of the slideshow. If I need to jump slides, the presenter console multi slide view does not follow along and have the current slide already selected.

For instance, if you're on slide 20, and want to jump several slides forwards to answer a question or something, you go to the multiple-slide view, and it has slide number 1 displayed. It hasn't kept track of the fact that you're on slide 20. So, you have to scroll along until you get to the current slide, and then work from there. When you're live in front of an audience these slight delays are a distraction to the presentation.

Thank you for any help on this.

OS: Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS
OOo Version: OO320m12 (Build:9483)
Launchpad bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/631034

In the past, I've successfully used this extension. But now, it just won't work. By that, I mean that when I launch a presentation, the presentation launches as if the extension weren't installed. No error messages. Nothing.

It seems that someone dropped the ball. After all, if it doesn't work, there must be some error condition. Why not report an error, so that there's at least something to go on?

(I'm currently running OOo 3.2 on Ubuntu (Linux) 10.04.

The Presenter Console is now part of the Universe repository in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. So, no need to download it manually from here, you can simply install the openoffice.org-presenter-console using Synaptic Package Manager.

You can use the normal Slideshow > Slideshow Settings > Multiple displays to control which screen your main presentations ends up on. If it's not right you can also drag the windows from one screen to another using ALT+left click to drag them.

Once installed nothing special needs to be done, it should just come up when going into presentation mode (F5).

Love the program!

My presenter notes are projecting on the screen and the slide (only) on my laptop monitor. How do I reverse this so I have my speaker notes on my laptop monitor and the slide (only) on the projector screen that the audience sees?

Have tried switching the "Extend my Windows desktop on this monitor" and still no luck getting this reversed.

Have two display icons: a BIG one label "1" and a small one labeled "2". Am assuming the BIG 1 is my projector and the small 2 is my laptop monitor.

Am really excited about using this feature. Please help. Thanks. - Tony

It works automatically in screen presentation view, as long as dual monitors are enabled before you start open office.

There was a previous post asking where to find the feature, once installed. I have the same question...

Bests, Al in Bangkok

Great extension and it is a most wanted extension but... great if it not in full screen mode.

Version 1.0.3 does not display speaker notes (OO 3.1.1 MacOSX SnowLeopard). Where can I find 1.0.2 so I can reinstall? The download had the same filename, so overwrote the old version.

Hi I've downloaded the extension and added it but it doesn't work. Is it meant to show when you are setting up the slide show? On the View Menu? or is it a button? or is it anywhere else.

Thanks to whoever put up version 1.0.3 for Win32. Now it works again with OOo 3.2 Win32. Much appreciated.

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!

great functionality and amazing modern classic look! a big compliment for the designer and the programmer .. software has too look and work like this.

Really great stuff !
If a video is inserted in a slide, the video is shown on both console and presentation screen. It would not be so disturbing if the sound was not slightly shifted, making an awful echo.
DEV300_m21 and Presenter Console 0.9.0

Great feature... The only major problem I see is the size of the "Current Slide" (It's very hard to read) It would be nice if the sizes could be manually set... Also, having the option to show, or not to show, the slides effects would be nice too. :)

Excellent stuff. Looks great at this early stage. Biggest downside right now is that my remote slide changer doesn't work when the presenter mode is switched on. KDE and XFCE on OpenSuSE 10.3