No Antivirus or Spyware software to slow me down as it is not connected to the internet. It has an NForce 2 Asus mobo, AMD Barton 2500 CPU, 1 gig of Dual Channel PC3200 Ram, FX 5200 AGP 8X video card, integrated Sound Storm 6 channel audio, integrated nic card and a 500 Gig Sata hard drive.
XP system is using XP Pro that has been modded by me to be lightweight At idle it uses about 230 megs of Ram. I broke down today and downloaded the 8.04 Release Candidate versions of Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Hopefully they will come up with a new version to handle these files. Open Office works well for many ppt files and I suggest you use that option as much as possible. The pptviewer found in the repositories is nothing more then Micro$oft's ppt viewer '97 configured under wine. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with a slew of proprietary formats and are left with very few choices to use these formats. I only offer this work around as a last resort. Apparently it doesn't pass the file extension parameters across all the folders. Must be a glitch between wine and the ppt 2007 viewer. If you configured ppt 2007 to automatically open these files with a file on the Desktop then any ppt file on the desktop will be opened with ppt2007.īut if you try opening a ppt file found elsewhere on your system then the 'Browse for file' window will open. Seems that the location of the first ppt file you open and configure determines whether other files open automatically. One problem I did encounter has to do with the automatic opening of them.
To access options such as 'next slide' or 'quit' just right click anywhere in the screen. The viewer screen will completely take up your whole screen. Now you powerpoint files will open with this viewer automatically. Make sure the radio button i selected next to the entry and click on Close. Now the PPTVIEW file will be in your Open With window. Select the PPTVIEW.EXE file and click on the Open button in the bottom right of the screen. Open the Program Files folder the the Microsoft Office folder followed by the Office12 folder. Open that folder then open the drive_c folder. Now right click and choose 'Show Hidden Files'.
That is the folder that has your user name.
It won't be on the list so we need to add it in. Right click on any ppt file and select Properties. So let's set the file to use this viewer for all ppt files. When it is done, you will have a link to it from your Applications-Wine-Program drop down.īut that is a pain to have to open it up, browse to the file then view it.
Accept the licensing nonsense and the install will start. If wine is not in your choices go to where it says 'Custom Command' and type in wine. Once you have downloaded the exe file right click on it and from the options choose 'Open With'. Well it requires the use of wine and the Powerpoint 2007 viewer that can be downloaded from Micro$oft.įirst you need to make sure you have wine installed.
Instead we can either use the viewer found in Open Office or try the pptviewer found in the repositories.īut neither one works for files made with the 2007 version if it is password protected against changes. Otherwise we would have a Powerpoint viewer released under the GPL. But we all know that they have no intentions of helping or releasing software to help this community. Microsoft has been wearing the "Let's help out the open source community" mask lately during it's battle to use their version of open source document format. One problem that arose recently had to do with a Powerpoint 2007 file that couldn't be viewed. Been extremely busy with R/W stuff and helping the many Ubuntu users I got to convert.