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On Monday 20 February 2006 19:20, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other |
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> linux distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt |
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> and *.pps. The difference is that *.pps have an interpreter linked into the |
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> document so you can run it under Windows without having Powerpoint. |
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> *.ppt do not cause any problems but *.pps do. If you do a "file |
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> something.pps" it reports it as "Microsoft Office Document" without |
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> qualifying what kind of document. |
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> As long as you have set all your file associations of Microsoft documents |
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> to OpenOffice, it will work for you because OO still is a monolithic |
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> application that handles all of them. |
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> This is not true if you have set file associations of Microsoft documents |
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> to specific applications in any other office suite, including but not |
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> limited to koffice. In the case of koffice, kword gets started, It starts |
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> to load the presentation and decides correctly that this isn't a word |
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> document. |
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> So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts |
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> here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? |
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> Would be great if we could get that sorted out. |
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> I tried myself. Unfortunately, I am not a magic file expert and failed |
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> badly. :-( |
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> Uwe |
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> -- |
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> Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? |
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most simple solution i can give is to rename file.pps to file.ppt |
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for my understanding pps does only that that opening it starts slide show not |
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the editor and powerpoint installation still has to be present |
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martins |
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