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? -- [email protected] mailing list
