OpenOffice.org Impress Templates
License: Creative Commons License
Copyright © 2005-2009 Chih-Hao Tsai (Email: )
Introduction
I have been using OpenOffice.org Impress exclusively and extensively for creating presentations for four years. I feel very comfortable with Impress and believe that it is as easy to use and as flexible as Microsoft PowerPoint.
However, unlike Microsoft PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org Impress does not come with a set of good templates. Even the ones coming with StarOffice are not polished enough. Therefore, I decided to design my own Impress templates and make them available to the public. Please note that these templates were originally designed to suit my own needs and preferences. You may need to modify them for them to be useful to suit your needs and preferences.
The templates
Below are some of my Impress templates, in both OpenDocument Presentation Template (otp) and StarOffice Presentation Template (sti) formats. You are welcomed to preview and download individual templates. If you want to download all templates in a single zip archive, please click on one of the following links:
- impress_templates_otp.zip (11.7 MB)
- impress_templates_sti.zip (11.7 MB)
Feel free to use or modify them under the terms and conditions of Creative Commons License. For templates using images from other sources (i.e., not taken by myself), you may also need to pay attention to the licenses of individual images.
Note. To edit the text on the title slide of some of the templates, you must switch to the master slide. In OpenOffice.org 2.0, select View -> Master -> Slide Master. In OpenOffice.org 1.1.x, select View -> Master -> Drawing.
Tokyo Midtown 1,2 and 3 (2009-09-01)
I visited Tokyo Midtown in summer 2008 and found it a very interesting place. So I used pictures taken there to make this set of templates.
The letterbox area has an aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Wide Screen, or Standard American Wide Screen, is one of the most common aspect ratios used in cinematography.
Download: tokyo-midtown-1.otp or tokyo-midtown-1.sti
Download: tokyo-midtown-2.otp or tokyo-midtown-2.sti
Download: tokyo-midtown-3.otp or tokyo-midtown-3.sti
Xuhai 2 (2008-09-30)
Xuhai (Hsu-hai) is a very remote village in southern Taiwan. I visited Xuhai in April, 2005, and took some pictures of its beautiful beach.
The letterbox area has an aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Wide Screen, or Standard American Wide Screen, is one of the most common aspect ratios used in cinematography.
Download: xuhai2.otp or xuhai2.sti
Wide Screen TV (2006-05-07)
The letterbox area of the "Wide Screen TV" template has an aspect ratio of 16:9, or 1.78:1. This is the standard aspect ratio of various HTDV formats. In addition, it is also the standard aspect ratio of most wide screen TV sets.
This set of four template (Wide Screen TV, Wide Screen, Panavison, and Cinemascope) are designed for making film-like presentations with OpenOffice.org Impress. Basically, I try to convey the film-like feel by letterboxing a content area with one of several "wide screen" aspect ratios.
This set of template shares a common mimimalist design, differs only in the aspect ratios of the letterbox area.
If your presentation has lots of images and you are willing to adjust the aspect ratio of most of your images to make them fit the templates nicely, you probably will find this set of templates useful. However, if your presentation consists of mainly text, or you are not used to editing images,you may want to use other templates instead.
Download: widescreen-tv.otp or widescreen-tv.sti
Wide Screen (2006-05-07)
The letterbox area has an aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Wide Screen, or Standard American Wide Screen, is one of the most common aspect ratios used in cinematography.
Download: widescreen.otp or widescreen.sti
Panavision (2006-05-07)
The letterbox area has an aspect ratio of 2.2:1. Panavision is one of the most common aspect ratios used in cinematography.
Download: panavision.otp or panavision.sti
CinemaScope (2006-05-07)
The letterbox area has an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. CinemaScope is an older format and has rarely been used today.
Download: cinemascope.otp or cinemascope.sti
Klee 2 (2006-01-01)
This template is based on a background image ( klee07.jpg) downloaded from the CulpritFey_Home web site. Paul Klee (1879-1940) is one of the most influential expressionist artists of the twentieth century.
Klee 1 (2006-01-01)
This template is based on a background image ( klee06.jpg) downloaded from the CulpritFey_Home web site. Paul Klee (1879-1940) is one of the most influential expressionist artists of the twentieth century.
Kaohsiung (2005-11-06)
Kaohsiung is Taiwan's second largest city with over one million residents. This template is based on a picture of the northwest corner of the city's Cultural Center. I took this picture last month.
Download: kaohsiung.otp or kaohsiung.sti
OOo2 (2005-10-23)
This template is based on the OpenOffice.org 2.0 Splashscreen Seagulls Motif ( TIFF 4.8 MB) and OpenOffice.org 2.0 Splashscreen Blue Gradient Background ( TIFF 1 MB) from the OpenOffice.org Design Elements website (licenses). I designed this template to celebrate the release of OpenOffice.org 2.0.
Xuhai (2005-10-12)
Xuhai (Hsu-hai) is a very remote village in southern Taiwan. I visited Xuhai in April, 2005, and took some pictures of its beautiful beach.
Mars (2005-10-12)
The spectacular image, sunset on Mars, was imaged by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The color picture of the surface of Mars was among the first batch of images sent back from Mars by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
Europa (2005-10-12)
The false-color global and surface views of the Jupiter moon Europa were taken by NASA's Galileo Orbiter.
Download: europa.otp or europa.sti
Titan (2005-10-12)
The ultraviolet image of Titan's night side limb, colorized to look like true color, was imaged by the Cassini spacecraft. The surface view of Titan was imaged by the Huygens probe. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
