How to view Power Point files?

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smokey01 · #1 Post by **smokey01** » Tue 30 Jan 2007, 09:32

I am using simpress for viewing power point files and it works fine. I am unable to click on the file from within Thunderbird though and automatically start simpress to view the file. If I save the file and drag it to the Open Office suite icon it loads fine. I have tried the Set Run Action to simpress but it does not work. It actually starts to load the open office initial screen then disappears.

I have tried to find another reader that might do the job but they have not been successful either, including tonicpoint as I have not managed to unzip or install it.

Any help would be appreciated.

I almost have the family converted from windows. Just have a couple of niggles left.

Artie · #2 Post by **Artie** » Tue 30 Jan 2007, 13:08

If you only want to view PowerPoint files you might try
http://eu.ajax13.com/en/index.jsp
ajaxPresents

Artie

muggins · #3 Post by **muggins** » Tue 30 Jan 2007, 13:34

i'm currently doing a uni course where occasionally content is presented in either pdf, or powerpoint format. i hate pdf 50% less than powerpoint. IMO powerpoint should be given 240V!

anyway, regarding your query, it's to do with what are called MIME types. searching the forum, i found this post:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 41&t=12318

this is concerning getting rox to recognise mp3s, but the same principles apply to .ppt

smokey01 · #4 Post by **smokey01** » Thu 01 Feb 2007, 09:20

Ajaxpresents looked good but I really want a standalone application not web based. I also noticed it's quite slow, too much like windows.

Thanks for your suggestion Artie.

Muggins I will see if I can understand the MIME Type info.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 41&t=12318

Thanks

muggins · #5 Post by **muggins** » Thu 01 Feb 2007, 10:06

smokey01,

i just saw your post, regarding gxine, and see you're using 2.13. maybe this post will make your mime-wrestling easier:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 44&t=14125

smokey01 · #6 Post by **smokey01** » Sat 03 Feb 2007, 01:42

Muggins,

Thanks for your help. With simpress I just included the full path. It apparently could not find the simpress executable. I suppose I could have also included the simpress dir in the path environment. Now when I click on a Powerpoint file attached in thunderbird all works as it should.

Grant

nap44 · #7 Post by **nap44** » Thu 21 Feb 2008, 01:48

Hi smokey01,
Do you have a link for simpress.
Cheers,
Rjc

smokey01 wrote:I am using simpress for viewing power point files and it works fine. I am unable to click on the file from within Thunderbird though and automatically start simpress to view the file. If I save the file and drag it to the Open Office suite icon it loads fine. I have tried the Set Run Action to simpress but it does not work. It actually starts to load the open office initial screen then disappears.

I have tried to find another reader that might do the job but they have not been successful either, including tonicpoint as I have not managed to unzip or install it.

Any help would be appreciated.

I almost have the family converted from windows. Just have a couple of niggles left.

nap44 · #8 Post by **nap44** » Thu 21 Feb 2008, 01:50

Hi Artie,
Thanks for the reply. However, this link times out on me!
Cheers,
RC

Artie wrote:If you only want to view PowerPoint files you might try
http://eu.ajax13.com/en/index.jsp
ajaxPresents

Artie

smokey01 · #9 Post by **smokey01** » Sun 02 Mar 2008, 00:40

Do you have a link for simpress.

Simpress is one of the applications that comes with Open Office.

You can get get it here: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

T_Hobbit · #10 Post by **T_Hobbit** » Sun 02 Mar 2008, 00:58

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 8&start=30

klu9 · #11 Post by **klu9** » Sun 02 Mar 2008, 13:27

another thought:
maybe use an online conversion service like Zamzar to convert PowerPoint format into another like .ODS for OpenOffice.Org.

http://www.zamzar.com/

fernan · #12 Post by **fernan** » Mon 03 Mar 2008, 21:15

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22046

"How to see .pps files in Puppy using wine "

muggins · #13 Post by **muggins** » Sat 15 Mar 2008, 00:47

Just thought I'd add that I was doing a course where the lecturer was offering slides in .ppt format and, if you've got OpenOffice >= v2.3, there's an extension available called Sun Presentation Minimizer:

See Here

muggins · #14 Post by **muggins** » Fri 21 Mar 2008, 02:56

Does anyone know how well the thinkfree firefox extension performs at opening powerpoint docs?

Janpup · #15 Post by **Janpup** » Fri 08 May 2009, 15:54

Smells like SPAM to me. A quick google of "nancykobe" shows many references to forum responses using the identical wording above and all posted in the last several days!!!!

..J

Spencer21 · #16 Post by **Spencer21** » Sat 09 Jan 2010, 23:07

Try to use Presentation to Video Converter.It's tool for convert Power Point to avi,swf and dvd.I was using it for my business.It's really good tool.Try.

mechmike · #17 Post by **mechmike** » Sat 09 Jan 2010, 23:25

http://www.browserloadofcoolness.com/so ... cpoint.pet

Dunno if it'll do you, but nobody's yet mentioned it...

You need Java...

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