Re: Viewing powerpoint files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Solochek) wrote: There is a small windows app which lets you view but not create powerpoint presentations. Its free on microsofts website. Has anyone tried to run this on top of wine or the similar? Not that particular program, but I've successfully run Word in WINE not too long ago, so assuming that there's a fair bit of shared code among the various bits of Office then you shouldn't have too much trouble with it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Viewing powerpoint files
Is there a utility to view MS powerpoint files? Do I have to install that monster of StarOffice for this perpose? ;^) It depends on what you call `view'. Our secretary sometimes insists on sending lecture programs in powerpoint files per email (yuck, bleah), and all that matters is the text. In that case a simple strings file.ppt | less will show you the text most of the time, after you scroll through a few pages of junk. The text is usually somewhere at the bottom. Funny thing is that you can often see older versions of the text that are invisible in powerpoint. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
Re: Viewing powerpoint files
Quoting E.L. Meijer (Eric) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there a utility to view MS powerpoint files? Do I have to install that monster of StarOffice for this perpose? ;^) It depends on what you call `view'. Our secretary sometimes insists on sending lecture programs in powerpoint files per email (yuck, bleah), and all that matters is the text. In that case a simple strings file.ppt | less will show you the text most of the time, after you scroll through a few pages of junk. The text is usually somewhere at the bottom. Funny thing is that you can often see older versions of the text that are invisible in powerpoint. This sounds like Word. Unless the author uses SaveAs after completing the document, you end up reading the version which was last SaveAs'ed (or the first version saved if it's never been SaveAs'ed). I recently received a Word attachment that had two identical versions of a document embedded in quite a large amount of binary stuff. When I eventually used Word to look at the document properly, what I had seen before was but a fraction of the whole thing, and this fraction was dispersed through the whole document. (Don't ask me why it was repeated. Perhaps the author had duplicated it and then modified one version. It was that sort of document, with repeated, slightly differing, sections.) Caveat lector. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: Viewing powerpoint files
There is a small windows app which lets you view but not create powerpoint presentations. Its free on microsofts website. Has anyone tried to run this on top of wine or the similar? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Wright wrote: Quoting E.L. Meijer (Eric) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there a utility to view MS powerpoint files? Do I have to install that monster of StarOffice for this perpose? ;^) It depends on what you call `view'. Our secretary sometimes insists on sending lecture programs in powerpoint files per email (yuck, bleah), and all that matters is the text. In that case a simple strings file.ppt | less will show you the text most of the time, after you scroll through a few pages of junk. The text is usually somewhere at the bottom. Funny thing is that you can often see older versions of the text that are invisible in powerpoint. This sounds like Word. Unless the author uses SaveAs after completing the document, you end up reading the version which was last SaveAs'ed (or the first version saved if it's never been SaveAs'ed). I recently received a Word attachment that had two identical versions of a document embedded in quite a large amount of binary stuff. When I eventually used Word to look at the document properly, what I had seen before was but a fraction of the whole thing, and this fraction was dispersed through the whole document. (Don't ask me why it was repeated. Perhaps the author had duplicated it and then modified one version. It was that sort of document, with repeated, slightly differing, sections.) Caveat lector. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
