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If you are saving the presentation for the first time, the Save dialog window opens to allow you to select a folder and fill in the filename field. Do so, then click the Save button. By default, the Save dialog window opens to the Documents directory (folder) in your file system. That is, user swhiser by default saves documents to /home/swhiser/Documents. This default also is consistent with other OpenOffice modules.

If you need to change the filename, folder, or format of the presentation file you are saving, save by selecting File → Save As and fill out the Save As dialog accordingly.

Export formats

One of the principal strengths of OOoImpress is the sheer number of file formats to which you may export your presentation. Table 8-4 lists the various export file formats available.

Table 8-4. OOoImpress file formats for export

Format

Name

File extension

BMP

Windows Bitmap

.bmp

EMF

Enhanced Metafile

.emf

EPS

Encapsulated Postscript

.eps

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

.gif

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

.html, .htm

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

.jpg, .jpeg, .jfif, .jif, .jpe

MET

OS/2 Metafile

.met

PBM

Portable Bitmap

.pbm

PCT

Mac Pict

.pct

PDF

Printable Document Format

.pdf

PGM

Portable Greymap

.pgm

PNG

Portable Network Graphic

.png

PPM

Portable Pixel Map

.ppm

PWP

Placeware

.pwp

RAS

Sun Raster Image

.ras

SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics

.svg

SVM

StarView Metafile

.svm

SWF

Macromedia Flash

.swf

SXI

OOoImpress native file format

.sxi

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

.tif, .tiff

WMF

Windows Metafile

.wmf

XPM

X PixMap

.xpm

Export to HTML. Among the most useful facilities here is the ability to export a presentation to the HTML or web page format. This feature allows us to painlessly convert any presentation we've given to a format suitable to the Web so the audience—as well as those who were unable to attend—can visit the material from any Internet-enabled location on the planet at their own convenience.

Start by selecting File → Export from the main menu. This launches the Save As window. Here, change the File format drop-down box to HTML Document and designate the filename and directory of the resulting HTML files. Then click the Export button to kick off the HTML Export dialog series.

First, select a design. Leaving the default as is and clicking the Next button is fine for many situations. Now you can choose from a variety of publication types that affect how the presentation appears and can be manipulated once it's up on the Web. Among these types are standard HTML format, standard HTML with frames, automatic, and WebCast (requires a server).

The default works nicely. Click Next. Here you can alter the format of graphics in the output and the resolution of output, and turn sound effects on or off. Leaving the settings at their defaults works fine. Click Next. This screen permits you to enter information that appears on the title page of the new web presentation. Enter the desired information and click Next. Here you can set the look of the navigational elements you like, such as forward and backward arrows. Leaving the "Text only" box checked (the default setting) produces text links, but you also have a choice of four styles of colorful buttons.

Click Next. In this final screen of the export process, you can alter the default color scheme of the text. Leaving settings alone works fine for first-timers. Finally, click the Create button, and your presentation is ready to post to the Web.

Export to Macromedia Flash. Not to be overshadowed among the many output formats is Macromedia Flash. This is yet another universally acceptable file format (along with PDF and HTML, in particular), which guarantees that anyone with a web browser (that is, everyone with a desktop computer) can view your presentation. Many of the same benefits of converting a presentation