Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps
On 20 February 2006 20:07, Willie Wong wrote: The question is how you are recognizing the files? From what you are saying, it sounds to me like you are double-clicking in some KDE file browser and letting KDE do the job of deciding which application to call. Since I know naught about KDE, I can't help there. Close. It's rather clicking on a mail attachment. So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? However, one thing that came to mind is for you to check the mime.types file in /etc/mime.types and make sure [01:01 PM]wwong ~ $ grep pps /etc/mime.types application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt pps Yup. That line is there. Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps
The 'file' command and mime types are different things. On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked: this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux *.ppt do not cause any problems but *.pps do. If you do a file something.pps it reports it as Microsoft Office Document without qualifying what kind of document. If you do a 'file something.ppt', I am fairly certain it will also say Microsoft Office Document. While grepping for 'Excel' and 'Word' both turn up some stuff in /usr/share/misc/file/magic, there isn't anything that corresponds to 'Power' except for PowerPC related stuff. In fact, I am pretty sure that documents from newer versions of Microsoft Office would all return that string when file is ran against them. This is not true if you have set file associations of Microsoft documents to specific applications in any other office suite, including but not limited to koffice. In the case of koffice, kword gets started, It starts to load the presentation and decides correctly that this isn't a word document. The question is how you are recognizing the files? From what you are saying, it sounds to me like you are double-clicking in some KDE file browser and letting KDE do the job of deciding which application to call. Since I know naught about KDE, I can't help there. So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? However, one thing that came to mind is for you to check the mime.types file in /etc/mime.types and make sure [01:01 PM]wwong ~ $ grep pps /etc/mime.types application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt pps pps files are indeed associated as powerpoint. HTH W -- This class makes me feel like Ralph Wiggam... ~DeathMech, Some Student. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 100 days, 10:19 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps
On Monday 20 February 2006 19:20, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt and *.pps. The difference is that *.pps have an interpreter linked into the document so you can run it under Windows without having Powerpoint. *.ppt do not cause any problems but *.pps do. If you do a file something.pps it reports it as Microsoft Office Document without qualifying what kind of document. As long as you have set all your file associations of Microsoft documents to OpenOffice, it will work for you because OO still is a monolithic application that handles all of them. This is not true if you have set file associations of Microsoft documents to specific applications in any other office suite, including but not limited to koffice. In the case of koffice, kword gets started, It starts to load the presentation and decides correctly that this isn't a word document. So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? Would be great if we could get that sorted out. I tried myself. Unfortunately, I am not a magic file expert and failed badly. :-( Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? most simple solution i can give is to rename file.pps to file.ppt for my understanding pps does only that that opening it starts slide show not the editor and powerpoint installation still has to be present martins -- Linux 2.6.15-ck3-r1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 20:27:21 up 15:55, 7 users, load average: 1.74, 1.71, 1.63 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps
On Monday 20 February 2006 22:50, Uwe Thiem wrote: So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? If you are in KDE, then right clicking on the file should give you a Open with... option in the context menu. Choose that, browse to the application you want to use to open the file and then check the Remember application association This will set the mime type in KDE. Now just double click the file and it will open in your desired application. If you are rather using Gnome, then I am sure someone using that DE will have some ideas. -- Regards, Abhay pgpSJv8QIyXNp.pgp Description: PGP signature
