hi, is there anything i can use to view PowerPoint presentations short of Wine or VMWare? i'd like to avoid StarOffice if possible. thank you, xiaolei
Last I recall, MS has a PPt Viewer that you used to be able to download free from thier webber....go out there and take a look... On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, propheci wrote:
hi,
is there anything i can use to view PowerPoint presentations short of Wine or VMWare? i'd like to avoid StarOffice if possible.
thank you, xiaolei
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On Wednesday 28 August 2002 17:58, Don wrote:
Last I recall, MS has a PPt Viewer that you used to be able to download free from thier webber....go out there and take a look...
As far as I can tell they only have viewers for ... guess what? Microsoft Windows.
Open Office does very nicely. Big improvement over Star Office 5.2. Also, kpresenter does PowerPoint presentations. On 28 Aug 2002 at 10:52, propheci wrote:
is there anything i can use to view PowerPoint presentations short of Wine or VMWare? i'd like to avoid StarOffice if possible.
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Open Office does very nicely. Big improvement over Star Office 5.2. Also, kpresenter does PowerPoint presentations.
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Open Office is essentially an open source version of Star Office 6.0. On 28 Aug 2002 at 6:36, Richard StClair wrote:
Open Office does very nicely. Big improvement over Star Office 5.2. Also, kpresenter does PowerPoint presentations.
Is open office different from Star Office 6.0 or are they the same thing?
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** Reply to message from "Jerry Feldman" <gerald.feldman@hp.com> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:26:45 -0400 Jerry, where is kpresenter? Is that part of Linux or Open Office? I'm using SuSE Linux 8.0 and can't find it. I do not have Open Office. Thanks Gil
Open Office does very nicely. Big improvement over Star Office 5.2. Also, kpresenter does PowerPoint presentations.
On 28 Aug 2002 at 10:52, propheci wrote:
is there anything i can use to view PowerPoint presentations short of Wine or VMWare? i'd like to avoid StarOffice if possible.
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It's part of KDE. My laptop is SuSE 8.0. I installed all of KDE. On 28 Aug 2002 at 14:23, Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from "Jerry Feldman" <gerald.feldman@hp.com> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:26:45 -0400
Jerry, where is kpresenter? Is that part of Linux or Open Office? I'm using SuSE Linux 8.0 and can't find it. I do not have Open Office. Thanks Gil
Open Office does very nicely. Big improvement over Star Office 5.2. Also, kpresenter does PowerPoint presentations.
On 28 Aug 2002 at 10:52, propheci wrote:
is there anything i can use to view PowerPoint presentations short of Wine or VMWare? i'd like to avoid StarOffice if possible.
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On Wednesday 28 August 2002 14:23, Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from "Jerry Feldman" <gerald.feldman@hp.com> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:26:45 -0400
Jerry, where is kpresenter? Is that part of Linux or Open Office? I'm using SuSE Linux 8.0 and can't find it. I do not have Open Office. Thanks Gil ==================
Gil, Kpresenter is part of the KOffice suite! You should be able to start it as part of the KOffice workspace or as a standalone program. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Amiga, SuSE Linux, PC Sales & Service Magic Page Products
** Reply to message from Patrick <penguin0601@earthlink.net> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:45:30 -0400 Thanks, Jerry and Patrick for your replies. I did not have KOffice installed. I installed KOffice and then found a serious problem. KWord will import and display Word documents without problem. KSpread will import and display Excel spreadsheets without problem. But Kpresenter absolutely locks up my box. Does not import PowerPoint presentations. Only gets as far as starting to open itself -- a large, grey box appears on screen with a couple of icons. Then my computer is locked tight. Can not use the process killer. Cannot even use Control/Alt/Backspace to reset. Absolutely no response from anything. Does not matter if I open Kpresenter first and then try to open a document or right click on the PP file in my home directory and tell it to "open with" Kpresenter. In either case the computer locks. Any ideas? Thanks. Gil
On Wednesday 28 August 2002 14:23, Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from "Jerry Feldman" <gerald.feldman@hp.com> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:26:45 -0400
Jerry, where is kpresenter? Is that part of Linux or Open Office? I'm using SuSE Linux 8.0 and can't find it. I do not have Open Office. Thanks Gil ==================
Gil, Kpresenter is part of the KOffice suite! You should be able to start it as part of the KOffice workspace or as a standalone program.
Patrick --
http://www.koffice.org/filters/status.phtml Join the developers :) Op woensdag 28 augustus 2002 21:41, schreef Gil Weber:
** Reply to message from Patrick <penguin0601@earthlink.net> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:45:30 -0400
Thanks, Jerry and Patrick for your replies. I did not have KOffice installed. I installed KOffice and then found a serious problem. KWord will import and display Word documents without problem. KSpread will import and display Excel spreadsheets without problem.
But Kpresenter absolutely locks up my box. Does not import PowerPoint presentations. Only gets as far as starting to open itself -- a large, grey box appears on screen with a couple of icons. Then my computer is locked tight. Can not use the process killer. Cannot even use Control/Alt/Backspace to reset. Absolutely no response from anything.
Does not matter if I open Kpresenter first and then try to open a document or right click on the PP file in my home directory and tell it to "open with" Kpresenter.
In either case the computer locks.
Any ideas? Thanks. Gil
On Wednesday 28 August 2002 14:23, Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from "Jerry Feldman" <gerald.feldman@hp.com> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:26:45 -0400
Jerry, where is kpresenter? Is that part of Linux or Open Office? I'm using SuSE Linux 8.0 and can't find it. I do not have Open Office. Thanks Gil
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Gil, Kpresenter is part of the KOffice suite! You should be able to start it as part of the KOffice workspace or as a standalone program.
Patrick --
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** Reply to message from Patrick <penguin0601@earthlink.net> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:45:30 -0400
Thanks, Jerry and Patrick for your replies. I did not have KOffice installed. I installed KOffice and then found a serious problem. KWord will import and display Word documents without problem. KSpread will import and display Excel spreadsheets without problem.
But Kpresenter absolutely locks up my box. Does not import PowerPoint presentations. Only gets as far as starting to open itself -- a large, grey box appears on screen with a couple of icons. Then my computer is locked tight. Can not use the process killer. Cannot even use Control/Alt/Backspace to reset. Absolutely no response from anything.
Does not matter if I open Kpresenter first and then try to open a document or right click on the PP file in my home directory and tell it to "open with" Kpresenter.
In either case the computer locks.
Any ideas? Thanks. Gil =================== Gil, Don't know what version of KOffice you have there. If you are using SuSE 8.0 and only installed the version from the CDs, then by all means update your KOffice as it has gotten much better! My version is: koffice-1.2rc1-20. But, I must appologize also as I have not tried a PowerPoint file in KPresenter for a while. KPresenter is still a work in progress, so does not handle PP files very well. My version will
On Wednesday 28 August 2002 15:41, Gil Weber wrote: pull up the file, but not display the slides/pictures. I did not crash though. One thing I noticed too was the file should have an extension of .ppz and not .pps for it to load successfully. KPresenter will let you create and work with PP files, but still has it's problems. I have always used OpenOffice for such things, so had never had any problems. So, it sounds like you need to update KOffice and possibly get either StarOffice 6.0 or OpenOffice (it's free sister program) 1.0.1 available on openoffice.org! Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Amiga, SuSE Linux, PC Sales & Service Magic Page Products
** Reply to message from Patrick <penguin0601@earthlink.net> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:13:49 -0400
** Reply to message from Patrick <penguin0601@earthlink.net> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:45:30 -0400
Thanks, Jerry and Patrick for your replies. I did not have KOffice installed. I installed KOffice and then found a serious problem. KWord will import and display Word documents without problem. KSpread will import and display Excel spreadsheets without problem.
But Kpresenter absolutely locks up my box. Does not import PowerPoint presentations. Only gets as far as starting to open itself -- a large, grey box appears on screen with a couple of icons. Then my computer is locked tight. Can not use the process killer. Cannot even use Control/Alt/Backspace to reset. Absolutely no response from anything.
Does not matter if I open Kpresenter first and then try to open a document or right click on the PP file in my home directory and tell it to "open with" Kpresenter.
In either case the computer locks.
Any ideas? Thanks. Gil =================== Gil, Don't know what version of KOffice you have there. If you are using SuSE 8.0 and only installed the version from the CDs, then by all means update your KOffice as it has gotten much better! My version is: koffice-1.2rc1-20. But, I must appologize also as I have not tried a PowerPoint file in KPresenter for a while. KPresenter is still a work in progress, so does not handle PP files very well. My version will
On Wednesday 28 August 2002 15:41, Gil Weber wrote: pull up the file, but not display the slides/pictures. I did not crash though. One thing I noticed too was the file should have an extension of .ppz and not .pps for it to load successfully. KPresenter will let you create and work with PP files, but still has it's problems. I have always used OpenOffice for such things, so had never had any problems.
So, it sounds like you need to update KOffice and possibly get either StarOffice 6.0 or OpenOffice (it's free sister program) 1.0.1 available on openoffice.org!
Patrick
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Patrick, thanks for this additional info. I am using StarOffice 6.0 for PP and it works just fine. But I was intrigued by the posting that mentioned using Kpresenter. I was just hoping to see if it offered me anything special compared to SO6.0. Clearly it does not. Thanks. :o) Gil
BTW: I have been having a problem with Open Office (both 1.0 and 1.0.1) where after saving my presentation as a .ppt, neither Power Point nor Open Office displays the slides properly. In most cases the slides were originally produced with Star Office 5.2 and either read into OO or pasted into OO. I have filed an IssueZilla on Open Office and have received a good response back. (BTW: It does work with SO 6.0, but I prefer using an Open Source solution). -- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
That's not good. I am working on a new charter school here in Alaska to use Linux as the desktop for students. These issues turn off school board members quick. Thanks for posting. /Dee On (28/08/02 16:52), Jerry Feldman wrote:
BTW: I have been having a problem with Open Office (both 1.0 and 1.0.1) where after saving my presentation as a .ppt, neither Power Point nor Open Office displays the slides properly. In most cases the slides were originally produced with Star Office 5.2 and either read into OO or pasted into OO. I have filed an IssueZilla on Open Office and have received a good response back. (BTW: It does work with SO 6.0, but I prefer using an Open Source solution). --
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I ran it on my laptop successfully before I responded. I can't say that I like it. I much prefer Open Office. On 28 Aug 2002 at 15:41, Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from Patrick <penguin0601@earthlink.net> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:45:30 -0400
Thanks, Jerry and Patrick for your replies. I did not have KOffice installed. I installed KOffice and then found a serious problem. KWord will import and display Word documents without problem. KSpread will import and display Excel spreadsheets without problem.
But Kpresenter absolutely locks up my box. Does not import PowerPoint presentations. Only gets as far as starting to open itself -- a large, grey box appears on screen with a couple of icons. Then my computer is locked tight. Can not use the process killer. Cannot even use Control/Alt/Backspace to reset. Absolutely no response from anything.
Does not matter if I open Kpresenter first and then try to open a document or right click on the PP file in my home directory and tell it to "open with" Kpresenter.
In either case the computer locks.
Any ideas? Thanks. Gil
On Wednesday 28 August 2002 14:23, Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from "Jerry Feldman" <gerald.feldman@hp.com> on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:26:45 -0400
Jerry, where is kpresenter? Is that part of Linux or Open Office? I'm using SuSE Linux 8.0 and can't find it. I do not have Open Office. Thanks Gil ==================
Gil, Kpresenter is part of the KOffice suite! You should be able to start it as part of the KOffice workspace or as a standalone program.
Patrick --
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