On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 07:06 -0400, David B Teague wrote: > On 11/2/2010 6:35 PM, NoOp wrote: > > On 11/02/2010 05:50 AM, David B Teague wrote: > > ... > >> Anyone have a suggestion for how to actually see the slides? > >> > >> The list server strips attachments that are not made by > >> OO.o, so I'd have to send a sample privately. > > ... > > > > David, send me the file& I'll see if I can open. I have MSO 2003 + the > > requisite MSO 2007 converters. > > > > Gary > > > Gary: > > When I extract the attachments, each of which is named > "attachment" they files that I can open with MS Wordpad. > They appear to be text files. Inside they state clearly that > the files are parts of a "Base 64" encoding of pps files, > and there are several parts over several email messages. > > My experience with uuencoded files (different from this, I > know) has been that without all of the parts, nothing works, > but I don't know about Base 64 encoding. > > I'll be happy to forward any or all of them, but let me know > what you want, because this is a sequence of 8 messages, > each of which is of size close to a megabyte. > > I would really like for OpenOffice.org to be able to open > them directly from the base 64 attachments... > > Thanks > > David >
OpenOffice.org opens all kinds of document formats, but Base64 is not a document format. It is a method of encoding 8bit per character files (usually binary files, which includes many MS formats) into 7bit per character files that can be attached to emails. Most email clients will automatically convert attachments to and from Base64 encoding. So you need to decode these files to give you the original pps file, which is a document format that OOo recognises. You may be able to download a utility that will do the decoding. There are also some on-line sites that will decode Base64 for you. Just Google for 'Base64 decode' and 'Base64 decode online'. Hope that helps. Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
