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Hi folks, |
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this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux |
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distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt and |
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*.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 something.pps" |
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it reports it as "Microsoft Office Document" without qualifying what kind of |
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document. |
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As long as you have set all your file associations of Microsoft documents to |
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OpenOffice, it will work for you because OO still is a monolithic application |
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that handles all of them. |
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This is not true if you have set file associations of Microsoft documents to |
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specific applications in any other office suite, including but not limited to |
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koffice. In the case of koffice, kword gets started, It starts to load the |
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presentation and decides correctly that this isn't a word document. |
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So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here |
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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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Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? |
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