It’s been a while since this question has been asked and I believe it should be addressed again. I’m a huge fan of libreoffice and I would like nothing more than to replace my powerpoint time with libreoffice impress time. However, the Smart-Art functionality in Powerpoint is awesome and saves me a lot of time while creating presentations. How far are libreoffice in creating this kind of functionality? I’ve seen attempts like
- templates with a fixed set of combinations
- an extension to libreoffice that is completely abandoned and does not work in +4.0 versions
- suggestions like create the smart art in PowerPoint and then import into impress
All of these suggestions and attempts are creative but hardly viable options.
So to summarize I’m wondering:
- Are there plans to implement smart-art like functionality in libreoffice? If so when?
- If the plans are non-existent: are there other software that could be used instead?
UPDATE:
I found the following active Enhancement request in bugzilla: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37932 which is exactly what I’m after. It was suggested in 2011 and still have the status of NEW and unfortunately no one has been assigned to it.
UPDATE 2:
Bump: Does anyone have an update on this?