Bug 155147 - Better handling of large presentations
Summary: Better handling of large presentations
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
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7.5.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Reported: 2023-05-04 14:29 UTC by Vincent Boudry
Modified: 2023-07-24 11:26 UTC (History)
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Description Vincent Boudry 2023-05-04 14:29:42 UTC
Description:
Working with large presentations (≥40 slides) is cumbersome and heavy.

Several improvements are possible. 
My impression is that a hierarchy in slides of could help.

- having a master presentation and link to sub presentations 
  - this is partially available https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142904 but lacks the possibility to follow the link and edit the source.
  - Dragging a file in the preview could create a link or 
- having the possibility to export a selection of slides to a new file, and replace them by a link to this file
- optionally, have this hierarchy visible in the preview,
  - and foldable (this is feasible in Keynote, see attachment)
- partial saving as automatic saving might take very long. Reduction of the presentation help but 
  - in practise, only a couple of items are modified between saving. 
  - for example, can compressions of unchanged images be saved and reused ?
  - sub-presentations could also be a candidate



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a large presentation, with large images
2. Work for while with it


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Expected Results:
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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

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Comment 1 Roman Kuznetsov 2023-05-05 13:04:31 UTC
Did you try use "Tools - Minimize Presentation" tool for decrease the presentation weight?

And please in the future - file different reports for every idea.

Added UX team for discussion.
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2023-05-09 12:11:17 UTC
(In reply to Vincent Boudry from comment #0)
> Working with large presentations (≥40 slides) is cumbersome and heavy.
What is the actual problem? Slow processing, I guess. If so, please describe your presentation, how do you use templates, background images, hardware etc. everything that could explain decrease in performance. Maybe you can share an example.

In a recent survey [1] participants reported to have the same number of slides as you, in average, but performance issues was not mentioned often. 

[1] https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2022/11/29/results-from-the-survey-about-libreoffice-impress/
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2023-07-24 11:26:18 UTC
Resolving due to missing reply. Feel free to reopen and comment.