I am using LibreOffice 6.4.7.2, and have made some slides using Impress native file format. When I try to run a slideshow (F5) starting with any slide in the folder, I get 1/2 (the topmost half of the page, apparently) displayed, press some key and the bottom half of the same page is displayed, press a key again, and the slideshow aborts. It is a slideshow of one slide! Further, when I edit the slide I see 1/2 of the page, and naturally the bottom half is left blank, what is that about? One slide is not supposed to be letter-sized, the default in writer!
Try turning off OpenGL (I think still in 6.4.7.2) otherwise turn off Skia (replacement for OpenGL). Click Tools > Options > LibreOffice > View and untick Use OpenGL for all rendering or if not that then untick Use Skia for all rendering
Test01.odp (16.1 KB)
Here is a sample. I suspect I have altered the template so as to introduce the 2/2, can that be ? Still, I don’t see why it would terminate the show after displaying 2/2 of slide 1.
I have checked rendering, all hardware assisted (OpenGL) is deselected.
Looks fine to me. There are two slides, helpfully labelled 1/2 (1 of 2) and 2/2. I think that you can’t see the slide pane, click View > Slide pane to toggle visibility.
Tested with Version: 6.2.8.2 (x64)
Build ID: f82ddfca21ebc1e222a662a32b25c0c9d20169ee
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; VCL: win;
Locale: en-NZ (en_NZ); UI-Language: en-GB
Calc: threaded
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Same to me. Checked on LO 6.4.7.2, 7.2.7.2, 7.3.6.2, 7.4.1.2
You refer to edit mode, don’t you? See attached screenshot: pointing to zoom factor.
EDIT
4:3 screen slide format - hopefully it fits well to some used projector.
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Thinking that it was an Impress issue, I converted my files to PowerPoint format, took it to a Windows OS computer with PowerPoint and tried to run a slideshow - same result, 1/2, 2/2, exit show.
It does not seem to be a problem with zoom, I use ‘Entire Page’.
Of cause it is not desired to have an empty lower half of the slide, that can not be intended, and the top half has the size I need. Anyway, the slideshow should continue, why does it stop?
I did not realize that the lower part of the page (2/2) is a separate slide. Now I have added some text there, but it makes no difference, the show still does not progress to the next file.
The normal way to make a presentation is to have all the slides in the same file. Maybe there is a way to link different files to make a slideshow but it is hard to see the benefit of having each slide as an individual file.
You might benefit from looking at the Impress Guide freely downloadable from English documentation | LibreOffice Documentation - LibreOffice User Guides
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@EarnestAl Now I see where my mistake is, your reply has been very helpful. My aim is to use Impress to create an autoplay slideshow I can upload to Youtube, is Impress capable of doing that?