Export documents in LibreOffice Impress and Draw

Sections of this page

  • Overview video
  • Launching the Export dialog
  • Exporting to a format
  • Links to other pages

Documents created in LibreOffice Impress and Draw can be exported in various popular formats that have been around for decades. Like in Writer and Calc, exporting is done through the Export dialog. Impress and Draw’s Export dialog has most of the formats that are in the Export dialog in Writer and Calc. It also has formats unavailable to these two applications.

Overview view

Launching the Export dialog

File menu

  1. Click the File menu
  2. Click the Export item in the menu

Standard toolbar

  1. Click the arrow next to the Save icon in the Standard toolbar.
  2. Click the Export item in the list

Other toolbars

  • The Export icon or list item is in several different user interfaces.
  • Click here to visit a page with information

Exporting to a format

  1. Click the drop-down menu and select the desired format. The formats are described below.
  2. If you want to change the name of the document, type a new name in the textbox with the name of the original document.
  3. Click the folder you want to export the document to by using the folders in the left column and the middle.

Macromedia Flash (SWF)

The Macromedia Flash format is an older format that was created by Macromedia and eventually acquired by Adobe. Older Websites use the technology to run animations of different kinds. Presentations with animations can be converted to Flash and Web pages can display them.

Flash is not available as a choice in this menu in LibreOffice 7 and later. Version 6.4 still has it in the list.

Click here to learn more about the format.

BMP Windows Bitmap

Windows Bitmap or BMP is a two-dimensional image format. It is for raster graphics, and the vector-graphics projects created by Draw can be converted to it.

Click here to learn more about the format.

EMF Enhanced Metafile

Enhanced Metafile or EMF is a device independent format originally created for Windows. It is an improvement over Windows Metafile or WMF.

Click here to learn more about the format.

EPS Encapsulated PostScript

Encapsulated PostScript or EPS is a format for documents that can be rendered by just about any graphics program and any PostScript printer will print the file identically.

Click here to learn more about the format.

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

Graphics Interchange Format or GIF is great for projects created in Draw, and can be used to create animations.It also can be used for images. Unlike jpeg it is a lossless format.information from the original image or graphic will not be removed when the new document is created.

Click here to learn more about the format.

SVG Scalable Vector Graphics

Scalable Vector Graphics or SVG is and excellent format to export Draw documents to.

Click here to learn more about the format.

TIFF Tagged Image File Format

TIFF or Tagged Image File Format is a popular desktop publishing format for raster images it was originally developed so scanner manufacturers would have a common format.

Click here to learn more about the format.

WMF Windows Metafile

Windows Metafile or WMF is a graphics format developed by Microsoft in the early 1990s.The 16-bit format was superseded by EMF.

Click here to learn more about the format.

Links to other pages

  • Export document to PDF
  • Export document to EPUB