"Slide Count" field is arbitrarily added while exporting

[ebobferraris]

Using a Master with the only "Slide Number" field, exported pdf contains "Slide Number / Slide Count" (see screenshot).
Is it an intended behavior? Is it possible to disable?

[monperrus]

thanks for the feedback, it is not possible to disable this.

[sagitta42]

Same here. Would prefer if it wasn't there and showed just my original slide number N times, same as if I was in presentation mode.

[Sbozzolo]

This improved my situation:
I edited the source code (Tools->Macros->Edit Macro) to comment out lines 140-142

'if slide.IsPageNumberVisible then
        'fixateSlideNumber(doc, slide, i+1, numSlides)
'end if

Now the style is correct (but the number is not).

[NeverGameStar]

This improved my situation: I edited the source code (Tools->Macros->Edit Macro) to comment out lines 140-142

'if slide.IsPageNumberVisible then
        'fixateSlideNumber(doc, slide, i+1, numSlides)
'end if

Now the style is correct (but the number is not).

Alternatively, you can change the style manually in the fixateSlideNumber function. I did so like this:

if shapeType = "com.sun.star.presentation.SlideNumberShape" then
            copy = doc.createInstance("com.sun.star.drawing.TextShape")
            'Call Tools.WritedbgInfo(shape)
            slide.IsPageNumberVisible = False
            slide.add(copy)
            copy.setString(CStr(slideNr)) '& " / " & CStr(slideCount))
            copy.Style = shape.Style
            copy.Text.Style = shape.Text.Style
            copy.Text.CharHeight = shape.Text.CharHeight
            copy.Text.CharFontFamily = shape.Text.CharFontFamily
            'copy.Text.CharFontName = shape.Text.CharFontName
            copy.Text.CharFontName = "Arial"
            'copy.Text.CharColor = shape.Text.CharColor
            copy.Text.CharColor = RGB(255, 255, 255)
            copy.Position = shape.Position
            copy.Size = shape.Size
            copy.TextVerticalAdjust = shape.TextVerticalAdjust
            copy.TextHorizontalAdjust = com.sun.star.drawing.TextHorizontalAdjust.CENTER
        end if

For some reason, it didn't really get the styles of the master file page number correctly - so I just hardcoded it in there.
Now it works for me (position is still slightly lower, but I don't care at this point).

[tomtom1-4]

Of this is not optimal. But I just changed numSlides in line 140 to the correct number manually.

[seal224]

as a workaround: It seems that the add-on creates a temporary file before exporting to PDF. So the slide numbers can be manually removed like this:

• Run Expand Animations add-on as usual
• open the temporary file from the Impress recent files menu (should be at the top of the list and called "[filename]-expanded"
• In this file, remove the slide numbers. If only the total slide count is to be removed, you can also try replacing all occurrences of " / [slide count]" with nothing
• Export the file to pdf