Hi :) One problem is that the original poster can't install anything onto the target machines.
If they were able to install then the MS route means worrying about having the right version, as a viewer for MS Office 2010 might not display files from MS Office 2007 or 2013 properly. There might be problems with licenses, license fees and other costs, and/or the chance of getting trapped into a vendor-lock-in. Why are we still trying to find an MS answer for this? Are we an MS forum/mailing-list now? Florian's answer about the WebODF thing sounds like it might be worth exploring. The Portable Apps / WinPenPack route might be another way of dodging the need to install something on the target machine. Does the WebODF work a bit like google-docs? Is it a Cloud-based install rather than a machine-based install? On Kubuntu a quick search of the repos turned up a few specialist slide-show packages that might well be better than either PowerPoint or Impress. Generally PowerPoint slides-shows all look a "a bit samey", unprofessional with rubbishy animations (at best) and often put people to sleep. Regards from Tom :) On 20 June 2014 08:14, NoOp <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/19/2014 11:51 PM, Florian Reisinger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Why do not use parallel installed LibreOffice? Or use WebODF: > http://webodf.org/ > > I've not been able to get webodf to work > <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webodf/?src=search> on > Firefox or SeaMonkey (linux). I'll fire up Windows tomorrow and try it > there. > > > > > > LibreOffice cannot be big and small at the same time :) > > > > Liebe Grüße, / Yours, > > Florian Reisinger > > > >> Am 20.06.2014 um 08:23 schrieb NoOp <[email protected]>: > >> > >>> On 06/18/2014 02:59 AM, Cley Faye wrote: > >>> 2014-06-18 2:37 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker <[email protected]>: > >>> > >>>> Unfortunately, not directly. And there is (as far as I know) no simple > >>>>> "viewer" that could be used for this purpose, ... > >>>> > >>>> On the contrary, if the target platform is Windows (but not other > >>>> operating systems), it can use the freeware Powerpoint Viewer from > >>>> Microsoft: > >>>> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13 . > >>> > >>> > >>> While this can be helpful for peoples having to go back and forth > between > >>> the odp and the ppt format, I have a hard time considering that a ppt > >>> viewer is a viable alternative to view odp files. Saving a LibreOffice > >>> presentation as a Powerpoint > >>> file can lead to all sort of rendering issues and surprises. Also, it > >>> looks like this need to be "installed" on the system. > >>> > >>> It would be nice to have an autonomous, minimalist binary for this > purpose. > >>> If you can install software on the target computer, might as well > install > >>> LO directly. > >> > >> Perhaps someone will pick this back up & get it working properly > >> <http://opendocumentfellowship.com/odfviewer> > >> <http://opendocumentfellowship.com/development/contents> > >> <https://code.google.com/p/odfviewer/downloads/list> > >> Note the 2006 dates... > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > >> Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > >> Posting guidelines + more: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
