.ODP File Format – Styles and slide transitions

Style families in presentations

style:style takes style:name, style:family, style:display-name, style:parent-style-name (must exist and not be automatic; without it the family’s default style is the parent), style:class (a free grouping name) and style:auto-update. A property is looked up in the named style, then its parents, then (for a paragraph in a shape) the shape’s graphic or presentation style and its parents, then the family’s style:default-style, then the standard’s default, else the program decides.

Master slides

In drawings and presentations a style:master-page is the common background of slides. Every slide names exactly one through draw:master-page-name, and every document needs at least one.

The page layout’s style:page-layout-properties gives fo:page-width, fo:page-height, the fo:margin* attributes and style:print-orientation (portrait or landscape), and may also carry borders, background and a number format (style:num-format). Notes pages (presentation:notes) name their own page layout. Presentation page layouts and placeholders are on the slides page.

Drawing-page properties

style:drawing-page-properties applies to slides, master slides, notes pages and the handout master. It may hold a presentation:sound child (a sound played with the transition).

A transition may also be written as an anim:transitionFilter in the slide’s own animation (begin id.begin, target the slide); that then overrides the sound, speed, style and type properties here, which writers should still give for older readers (standard, appendix F.1).

<style:style style:name="dp2" style:family="drawing-page">
 <style:drawing-page-properties presentation:transition-type="automatic"
   presentation:duration="PT00H00M05S" smil:type="barWipe" smil:subtype="topToBottom"
   smil:direction="reverse" presentation:display-footer="true"
   presentation:display-page-number="false" presentation:display-date-time="true"/>
</style:style>

Old transition styles

The 64 values of presentation:transition-style:

The standard’s description of stretch-from-top says “from the left”, a slip.

SMIL transitions

ODF takes smil:type and smil:subtype from SMIL 2.0 §12.8. Each type has a default subtype (marked *); the SMPTE wipe code is in brackets.

In ODF both attributes have the data type string; the standard points to this SMIL list for the supported values.

Gradients, hatches, images, markers and dashes

Fills and lines refer by name to elements in office:styles: draw:gradient (draw:style = linear, axial, radial, ellipsoid, square, rectangular; start and end colour and intensity, angle, border, centre), svg:linearGradient and svg:radialGradient (with svg:stop), draw:hatch (single, double, triple; colour, distance, rotation), draw:fill-image, draw:opacity (a transparency gradient, 0% transparent to 100% opaque), draw:marker (an arrowhead path, drawn pointing up and rotated to the line) and draw:stroke-dash (rect or round dashes, two runs of dashes with lengths, and the gap). Fill images, opacity gradients, markers and dashes cannot be automatic styles. Their attributes are listed with the graphic properties on the graphic formatting page.

Source

OpenDocument Version 1.3, OASIS Standard, 27 April 2021, part 3 (schema): chapter 16, section 17.25 and attributes 20.100, 20.118–20.128, 20.137, 20.152–20.153, 20.157, 20.175, 20.231–20.245, 20.341 and 20.406, and appendix F.1. W3C SMIL 2.0 (Recommendation, 7 January 2005), chapter 12 “Transition effects”, §12.8 taxonomy tables, for the type and subtype names. All read for this page.