The presenter screen feature is implemented as an OO extension. Thanks to pointers by Stefan Weigel and Rene Engelhard I could figure out the current and upcoming support of dualhead presentation mode in OO. You can find several bugreports/wishlists in the regarding the dualhead feature as well. It just provides the possibility to send your presentation to one specific monitor or span the presentation on all available monitors – completely useless for me. That’s just basic multimonitor support and has NOTHING to do with the real dualhead presentation mode you might know from tools like MS Powerpoint ( multimonitor support – known as ' Referentenansicht' in german locales) or Apple’s Keynote. Update on : check out – the presenter-screen extension is available for current OpenOffice 3.0 beta version now (thanks for pointer to Stefan Weigel)īesides some other issues (not being relevant for the topic I’m blogging about) OpenOffice Impress ('the Powerpoint of the free Office suite') has one major drawback: lack of reasonable dualhead support.Īt the end of year 2006 Philipp Lohmann blogged about OpenOffice’s ' Multimonitor support for the slideshow'.

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