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
leko@cmu.edu
David Wright wrote:
> Quoting E.L. Meijer (Eric) (tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl):
> > > 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,
>
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