Make LibreOffice presentation open website (hyperlink) when clicking on image?

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I know I can use Insert > Hyperlink to create a text that, when clicked on, opens a website.

Can also do something similar with an image? Or just any object in general?

I know I can right click on objects and choose Interaction, which can open documents or play videos etc, but unfortunately there is no "Open URL" or "Visit Website" action in there. Is there another way to pull this off?

Note that working around it by using the 'Run program' action isn't really what I need, because I need this presentation to work on different machines (with different OSes even). So running a particular browser program on my PC may not work on someone else's.

RocketNuts

Posted 2016-10-30T22:38:30.833

Reputation: 596

Answers

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I found the following works (at least, it does in Ubuntu):-

  • Insert your image: the corners and mid-side markers will be in green to show that it is selected.
  • Click within the image, causing the markers to turn red and a sight symbol to appear, as here:

Impress Slide

  • You can now click Insert -> Hyperlink... (or Ctrl-k) and insert your link.
  • If you now click outside the image the markers will disappear, and clicking within the image will trigger the link, whether in edit or slide-show mode.

The only slight aesthetic problem is that hovering within the image causes the pop-up text Go to document: http://LinkAddress. I have not investigated if this can be customised.

AFH

Posted 2016-10-30T22:38:30.833

Reputation: 15 470

Works here on OS X as well! – RocketNuts – 2016-10-31T09:31:27.743