edit .pps in impress

Impress doesn’t let me edit a .pps on finish shuts down impress.

Change the file extension from .pps to .ppt and then it should open in edit mode.

I tried JohnD’s answer and that didn’t work changing from .pps to .ppt. I don’t know if it’s a Linux Mint 17.1 problem in renaming the suffix or LibreOffice problem.

What happens is even if I open it after renaming it automatically displays the presentation. On pressing Esc, Impress exits.

I saw on [Solved] Open pps files in edit instead of presentation mode (View topic) • Apache OpenOffice Community Forum a script:

#!/bin/bash
#script to open pps files in edit mode in Ubuntu
#script contains code found on several places on the internet and can handle only one parameter (file)

fullpath=$1
filename="${fullpath##*/}"                      # Strip longest match of */ from start
dir="${fullpath:0:${#fullpath} - ${#filename}}" # Substring from 0 thru pos of filename
base="${filename%.[^.]*}"                       # Strip shortest match of . plus at least one non-dot char from end
ext="${filename:${#base} + 1}"                  # Substring from len of base thru end
if [[ -z "$base" && -n "$ext" ]]; then          # If we have an extension and no base, it's really the base
    base=".$ext"
    ext=""
fi
extnew=$ext
if [ "$ext" == "pps" ] || [ "$ext" == "PPS" ]; then
   extnew="ppt"
fi
if [ "$dir" == "" ]; then
   dir="."
fi
oldname="$dir/$filename"
newname="$dir/$base.$extnew"
mv "$oldname" "$newname"
ooimpress "$newname"
mv "$newname" "$oldname"

Save it as ooimpress-noshow, do
chmod a+x ooimpress-noshow

The script is for OpenOffice Impress, how would I alter it for LibreOffice, and where should it be saved to work?

Hi - Simply:

  1. File Open Your.pps (the slideshow starts)
  2. Right clik, Edit the presentation

Regards

Editing a pps or ppsx file in LibreOffice Impress is easy. You have to open the pps or ppsx file via LibreOffice Impress and while on the presentation mode (fullscreen) - right click and select edit presentation.

Detailed guide with screenshot referred here: https://libreofficehelp.com/how-to-edit-pps-ppsx-files-in-libreoffice-openoffice-impress/