dohliam/libreoffice-impress-templates

Freely-licensed LibreOffice Impress templates

LibreOffice Impress Templates

• 1 Background
• 2 Goals
• 3 Screenshots
• 4 Templates
  • 4.1 apache-oo
  • 4.2 chtsai-impress
    • 4.2.1 samples
  • 4.3 fedora-slideshow
    • 4.3.1 samples
  • 4.4 kde-files-org
    • 4.4.1 samples
  • 4.5 lo-cft
  • 4.6 lo35-templates
    • 4.6.1 samples
  • 4.7 lo4-design-candidates
  • 4.8 lo5-design-candidates
  • 4.9 lo51-templates
  • 4.10 modern-impress-templates
    • 4.10.1 samples
  • 4.11 other
  • 4.12 ubuntu-odp
    • 4.12.1 samples
  • 4.13 user-contrib
• 5 Scripts
• 6 Download
• 7 Installation
  • 7.1 Arch Linux
  • 7.2 Ubuntu & Debian
• 8 License

Background

It is surprisingly difficult to find well-designed presentation templates for LibreOffice Impress under a free license.

LibreOffice comes pre-installed with a handful of barebones templates that are not terribly useful.

Many people online have asked about where to find more and better templates, and they are usually directed to the LibreOffice Templates website. There are surprisingly few usable templates there -- many are abandoned, not actually available for download, lacking any license information, and so on -- but those that can be downloaded and used are often not what one might expect to see in a modern presentation.

Further searching will turn up various odds-and-ends that have cropped up over the years -- a download here, a website there -- as well as more unlicensed or non-free templates and even suggestions to just use .ppt files from MS Office.

Most amazing of all is the lack of packages containing additional templates for most distros.

For example, the libreoffice-templates package (description: "Additional set of templates for LibreOffice") that is available in Ubuntu, only contains the 8 default templates that come with LibreOffice itself. Installing this package thus has no effect on the templates available to the user in Impress, and no other template packages appear to be available.

This project aims to improve this situation.

Goals

1. To provide a collection of well-designed, freely-licensed, usable templates for LibreOffice Impress.

2. To eventually build packages for as many distros as possible so that people can install extra templates easily through their package manager. These should work without any additional intervention on the part of the user -- if you install a templates package, you should just need to open Impress and go to the templates gallery to see all the templates you have just installed, ready for use.

3. To provide a central place for a curated, maintained collection of high-quality, working Impress templates designed by the community.

Screenshots

You can now live search through all the templates using tags. Try it out on the template homepage.

There is also a full gallery of screenshots for all the templates included in this project on the screenshots page.

Templates

apache-oo

A collection of open-licensed templates from the Apache OpenOffice Templates collection.

• Details
• Screenshots

chtsai-impress

A collection of 16 templates originally made between 2005-2009 for OOo Impress by Chih-Hao Tsai. It includes several templates suitable for widescreens.

These are licensed CC-BY-SA (see included license file).

The templates included in chtsai-impress are:

• cinemascope.otp
• europa.otp
• kaohsiung.otp
• klee1.otp
• klee2.otp
• mars.otp
• ooo2.otp
• panavision.otp
• titan.otp
• tokyo-midtown-1.otp
• tokyo-midtown-2.otp
• tokyo-midtown-3.otp
• widescreen-tv.otp
• widescreen.otp
• xuhai.otp
• xuhai2.otp

samples

For a full gallery of template screenshots in this package, see the screenshots page.

fedora-slideshow

A series of 18 templates based on designs by members of the Fedora Project community.

These include 3 templates (fedora-patterns-clover, fedora-textures-grey-blue, and fedora-clean-grey) from an open call to design a slide deck template for general Fedora presentations.

It also includes two templates (fedora-patterns-wings and fedora-server-theme) by William J Morenor.

The remainder of the templates are based on designs from the Fedora Project Wiki.

All of the templates have had the original Fedora branding removed to make them suitable for generic use, and have been renamed with more descriptive titles (e.g., fedora-clean-blue-white rather than Presentations_l10nDev).

These templates are released under a CC-BY-SA license, with the exception of several which are CC-BY. For full license and attribution information, please see the README in the fedora-slideshow directory, and the metadata (meta.xml) included with each file.

The templates included in fedora-slideshow are:

• fedora-bubbles
• fedora-clean-blue-white
• fedora-clean-grey
• fedora-floral-green
• fedora-gradients-dark
• fedora-gradients-light
• fedora-gradients-medium
• fedora-mirrormanager
• fedora-odometer
• fedora-patterns-clover
• fedora-patterns-wings
• fedora-photography
• fedora-server-theme
• fedora-solar-splash
• fedora-sunlight-bubbles
• fedora-textures-blue
• fedora-textures-grey-blue
• fedora-textures-wings

samples

For a full list of template screenshots in this package, see the screenshots page.

kde-files-org

A collection of 18 templates from members of the community at kde-files.org.

These have been released under a variety of different licenses (GPL, LGPL, CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, Public Domain). See the README in the kde-files-org folder for attribution and license details.

The templates included in kde-files-org are:

• autumn-flowers
• braids
• braids-gradient-blue
• chalkboard
• dreaming
• letterpress
• mazu
• red-flowers
• soft-background-brown
• soft-background-brown-murky-emboss
• soft-background-burgandy
• soft-background-green
• soft-background-green-emboss
• soft-background-sky
• spring
• squares
• traeth-glas
• yellow

samples

For a full list of template screenshots in this package, see the screenshots page.

lo-cft

A collection of open-licensed templates from The Document Foundation Design Team's Call for Templates for LibreOffice.

• Details
• Screenshots

lo35-templates

A series of 25 presentation template layouts provided in version 3.5 of LibreOffice. They were located in the /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/template/common/layout/ directory. They no longer appear to be available in recent versions of LibreOffice, having been replaced by ten much less useful templates (AbstractGreen.otp, AbstractRed.otp, AbstractYellow.otp, BrightBlue.otp, DNA.otp, Inspiration.otp, LushGreen.otp, Metropolis.otp, Sunset.otp, Vintage.otp).

The templates included in lo35-templates are:

• lyt-aqua.otp
• lyt-blackandwhite.otp
• lyt-bluegrey.otp
• lyt-bluelinesgrad.otp
• lyt-bluetitledown.otp
• lyt-book.otp
• lyt-brown.otp
• lyt-charglow.otp
• lyt-forest.otp
• lyt-frepa.otp
• lyt-glacier.otp
• lyt-greengradlines.otp
• lyt-keyboard.otp
• lyt-movwaves.otp
• lyt-numdark.otp
• lyt-ocean.otp
• lyt-organic.otp
• lyt-paper.otp
• lyt-rededges.otp
• lyt-roundedrect.otp
• lyt-sunrise.otp
• lyt-techpoly.otp
• lyt-tunnel.otp
• lyt-water.otp
• lyt-wine.otp

Most of the templates were created by Ilko Hoepping, with others by Volker Ahrendt. These appear to be licensed under LGPLv3 along with the rest of LibreOffice v3.5.

samples

For a full list of template screenshots in this package, see the screenshots page.

lo4-design-candidates

A collection of 12 open-licensed templates from the LibreOffice Design Team's call for templates for inclusion in LibreOffice 4.4.

• Details
• Screenshots

lo5-design-candidates

A collection of 23 open-licensed templates from the LibreOffice Design Team's call for templates for inclusion in LibreOffice 5.0.

• Details
• Screenshots

lo51-templates

A group of presentation templates that were included with version 5 of LibreOffice.

• Details
• Screenshots

modern-impress-templates

A series of 41 templates made many years ago for OOo and provided as an .oxt file. This seems to have been the first attempt to collect a series of freely-licensed, well-designed modern templates for LibreOffice in one place.

Unfortunately the oxt file no longer works, and installing the extension does not actually make any templates available in Impress. However, the .oxt file contains .otp files which can be extracted and opened directly in LibreOffice.

The larger problem with these original template files is that they no longer work with recent versions of Impress. Someone commented back in 2010 that the templates had stopped working with Impress, and got a response saying a fix would come soon, however they remained broken as of 2015. It is possible that they never worked properly, as the issue in most cases turned out to be incorrectly identified images in the manifest file (e.g. specifying a background image called background.png when the image file was actually called background.jpg). The .otp files have all been fixed one-by-one in this repo, so these very nice templates can now be used once again (if you still encounter any problems opening the files in LibreOffice, please let me know by opening an issue).

The templates included in modern-impress-templates are:

• another-poppy
• aquarius
• blue-elegance
• citrus-e
• cs3
• cs3mod2
• emotion
• emotion2
• eos
• fields-of-peace
• fresh-morning
• glowing-rectangles
• golthia
• green
• green-box
• green-concentration
• greenish-wallpaper
• lightwave-in-motion
• metal-motion
• moebius-strip
• more-green
• motion-stripes
• pixels-rock
• eco-aqua
• eco-blue
• eco-cyan
• eco-gold
• eco-green
• eco-grey
• eco-lightblue
• eco-maroon
• eco-orange
• eco-pink
• eco-purple
• eco-red
• sedi
• suse-wallpaper
• swamp-gas
• the-bait-nc
• ubuntu-caramel-mocha
• ubuntu-mocha

samples

For a full gallery of template screenshots in this package, see the screenshots page.

other

A collection of open-licensed templates from various places around the Web.

• Details
• Screenshots

ubuntu-odp

A collection of 35 templates based on designs from members of the community at spreadubuntu, including among others 30 templates by leogg of DifundeUbuntu Nicaragua.

Most of the K/X/Ubuntu branding has been removed, except in cases where it seems generic or otherwise not obvious (e.g. a giant faint gear or circle in the background).

All of the templates are licensed CC-BY-SA (for full attribution and license information, see the LICENSE file in the ubuntu-odp folder, or the individual metadata in each templates meta.xml file.

The templates included in ubuntu-odp are:

• edubuntu-community
• edubuntu-escalante
• edubuntu-escondido
• edubuntu-esquipulas
• edubuntu-esteli
• edubuntu-estero-real
• kubuntu-community
• kubuntu-karata
• kubuntu-karawala
• kubuntu-kde-powered
• kubuntu-kilambe
• kubuntu-kubali
• kubuntu-kukra-hill
• kubuntu-kurinwas
• kubuntu-kurnog
• ubuntu-community
• ubuntu-curve-brown
• ubuntu-dots-orange
• ubuntu-gnome-powered
• ubuntu-tallship-aubergine
• ubuntu-ubaldo
• ubuntu-ukapina
• ubuntu-ulang
• ubuntu-uli
• ubuntu-ulwaskin
• ubuntu-umbra
• ubuntu-upa
• ubuntu-world-map-brown
• xubuntu-community
• xubuntu-treeline-blue
• xubuntu-xalapa
• xubuntu-xalteva
• xubuntu-xiloa
• xubuntu-xilonem
• xubuntu-xolotlan

samples

For a full list of template screenshots in this package, see the screenshots page.

user-contrib

Calling all designers! This is your chance to make a difference by making well-designed templates freely available so that non-designers don't have to (shudder) make their own. Any and all submissions are welcome in the user-contribs folder. It doesn't have to be the best presentation template you can make -- just the template you wish everyone else had used when you have to sit through a day or a week of presentations. Give the world the opportunity to not offend your design sensibilities by sharing better templates!

Details on the currently available templates in this collection can be found here.

Scripts

The scripts folder contains the scripts used to build and unpack the .otp files. Binaries are purposely not stored in the repository in an effort to avoid using git for things it was not meant to do. Instead, they are made available for download in the releases section, while the repository itself contains the unpacked files inside each .otp template. The scripts allow these unpacked files to be compiled into collections of usable template binaries for download.

If you have ruby installed you can also use these to build the templates yourself from source. Just enter a directory containing template source files and execute the repack_otp.rb script.

For example, if you have cloned the repository and want to build the Modern Impress Templates collection, you can use the following commands from within the main repository directory:

cd modern-impress-templates
../scripts/repack_otp.rb

You MUST change directory into a collection directory for the script to work.

This will create an .otp template file for each source folder in the directory.

You can also use the scripts to pack and unpack individual templates. Just add one or more template file or folder names after the main command, e.g.:

cd kde-files-org
../scripts/repack_otp.rb letterpress squares chalkboard

or

../scripts/unpack_otp.rb letterpress.otp squares.otp chalkboard.otp

Download

Head over to the releases section to download binaries containing the templates for use with LibreOffice Impress.

This collection currently includes 253 Impress templates that have been tested to work on recent versions of LibreOffice (4.2.8+).

There is now a .deb package available for Ubuntu and Debian-based systems that will install all the templates for immediate use in LibreOffice. See the releases section for the latest packages and the install guide in the wiki for help with installation.

Installation

Most of the individual templates can be used directly without installation by clicking on the .otp files (available in the release packages).

To get the .otp file for a particular template, just download the corresponding template collection from the release section, unzip it and look in the otp folder for the file you want.

It is also possible to compile one or all of the templates manually from source, using the template packing script in the scripts folder.

Installation packages for specific operating systems are also available (see below for further details).

Arch Linux

• Arch Linux: in the AUR (thanks to Louis Tim Larsen).

Ubuntu & Debian

There is now a .deb package available for Ubuntu and Debian-based systems that will install all the templates for immediate use in LibreOffice.

See the releases section for the latest packages and the install guide in the wiki for help with installation.

License

These templates have all been released under different (open) licenses, and are grouped together for convenience. They retain their original licenses in all cases. The repository itself (apart from the templates) is released under the MIT license.

See the readme files in each folder for an overview of the template licenses for each collection. Most of the templates also include detailed attribution and licensing details in the meta.xml file located in the template source folder.

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libreoffice-impress-templates's Issues

Add master slides for all templates

Many of the templates currently do not include a master slide, which makes them difficult to use as presentation templates. All templates without a master slide should be updated to include properly formatted master slides for all relevant slide designs (i.e., if the template has 3 pages, these should be converted into 3 master slides).

otp files compiled are marked as corrupted by libreoffice 6.0.2.1

Hi guys,

after

zangetsu@venus ~/devel/proj/libreoffice/libreoffice-impress-templates $ ./scripts/repack_otp.rb 
  * Template "fedora-slideshow.otp" built successfully
  * Template "user-contrib.otp" built successfully
  * Template "lo35-templates.otp" built successfully
  * Template "kde-files-org.otp" built successfully
  * Template "lo5-design-candidates.otp" built successfully
  * Template "lo51-templates.otp" built successfully
  * Template "lo-cft.otp" built successfully
  * Template "apache-oo.otp" built successfully
  * Template "modern-impress-templates.otp" built successfully
  * Template "ubuntu-odp.otp" built successfully
  * Template "lo4-design-candidates.otp" built successfully
  * Template "other.otp" built successfully
  * Template "chtsai-impress.otp" built successfully
  * Template "scripts.otp" built successfully

When I click on any file then it is reported as corrupted first:

When I click yes (to repair the file) it finishes with:

Maybe some issue with 6 version compatibility?

Installed "templates-all_2.2-1.deb" don't show up in Templete Manager as explained in Install-Guide.

Distro: Ubuntu 19.10
LO: Version: 6.4.1.2
I followed the installation guide to install all template using
sudo dpkg -i libreoffice-impress-templates-all_2.2-1.deb command, as u can see:

The only templates I see is the one which came by default, as u can see:

I think the directory which .deb is installing slides to, is the old one. Not the new one.

reo-veo license?

@milekpl Thank you for the amazing templates which were the original inspiration for this project! I have managed to track down detailed licensing information for all of the templates in the modern-impress-templates collection except for the ones in the reo-veo series.

Recently, while making this list of licenses, I realized that the only license provided for the reo-veo templates (i.e., reo-veo1 ... reo-veo12) was "Free."

Unfortunately, "free" is not a license (as far as I am aware), not to mention that many people have different definitions of what "free" means (GPL? Public Domain? CC-BY?). Also, I was unable to find any information about the original author of the template and/or the art, so I wasn't really sure how to properly attribute these.

Although I believe your intention was to provide all of these templates under free licenses, it is probably better to ask you than for me to make a guess!

Would you be able to clarify the license status for the Reo Veo templates so that they can be properly credited in this project?

Thanks! 😄

Add jalibut project to the footer

Add the following to the bottom of the page:

    <footer>
      <div class="container">
        <h4>Powered by <a href="http://darshandsoni.com/jalibut" target="_blank">Jalibut</a></h4>
    </div>
    </footer>

Request: direct links to GitHub (source) dirs for all templates

Thank you for this site --- the thumbnail gallery is very useful! I was surprised to discover that the link beneath each screenshot does not always link to the specific directory. E.g., clicking the link below "another-poppy" takes you to https://github.com/dohliam/libreoffice-impress-templates/tree/master/modern-impress-templates , not to https://github.com/dohliam/libreoffice-impress-templates/tree/master/modern-impress-templates/another-poppy . Could the titles above the thumbnails be converted to links to the template directories on GitHub? Thanks for considering this request!

(This should be in https://github.com/dohliam/dohliam.github.io/tree/master/libreoffice-impress-templates, but there's no issue tracker there.)

Templates not visible - multilingual (.deb package)

I just installed the debian package using dpkg, but the templates won't be visible, also tried restarting libreoffice.
I then found out that the package installs to /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/template/en-US/, but I'am not starting libreoffice in en-US language. -> Thats the cause.
Please build the package language independent
--> /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/template/common/presnt/ as target directory

Fluent Design

It would be awesome if you create new template with Fluent Design.
See: https://fluent.microsoft.com/

How do you install a template?

I have been clicking menus for an hour trying to figure out how to load any of these templates. I have mode no progress because there is no way to browse to the directory. I can't find instructions for Libreoffice 4.

add some classic template

I have seen presentations using this template in a lot of university and company, but I don't know the exact name of this template.

The picture of this template is shown below:

could consider the possibility to find it and add it in the templates. it would be awesome.

You can add a series of template in different color of this template. The layout and item-order can also be varied.

Should license info be included on the last slide of presentations?

Hello,
First of all, thank you so much to @dohliam for putting this project together; it is a wonderful resource.

My question is about how the licenses the templates are released under interact with the final presentations produced using them. Should the license information be included on the last slide of each template? Or is having the license information encoded in the digital file "behind" the presentation enough?

Thank you so much!

[BUG] Template: Midnight-blue

Hi,
I am using Libreoffice:
Version: 5.1.6.2
Build ID: 1:5.1.6rc2-0ubuntu1xenial2
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.8; UI Render: default;
Locale: de-DE (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group

on a Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS Maschine. The templates do not realy work correctly. e.g. the midnight-blue tempalte does not show me the title page but only the pages which would come after the title page. I have attached two Screenshots to illustrate my problem.

Presentations Broke

Issue 🐞

It all worked fine when added slides and saved successfully. Problems arose when I try to reopen the saved file, I see Spanish texts, some has English texts on background that's not editable. Some of the themes got changed.

OS 🖥

Arch Linux and using the AUR package.

Libreoffice Version ⚙️

LibreOffice 6.2.3.2 20(Build:2)

Screenshots 📸

Templates for LibreOffice 5.0

Libreoffice has a page with designs that were requested to be added to Impress and that could be added to this page.

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Templates_for_LibreOffice_5.0

Templates have uneditable text

I've tried a few templates and they all suffer the same problem. There is only one editable text box on the first slide, where you're supposed to be able to edit the presentation title, course name, organization, etc. You can only edit the title, so that first slide is not useful at all.

I'm on the latest version of libreoffice (6.1.4.2). The template I'm trying to use is mars.otp from here.