On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 09:05 -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > I just checked that pptview does work with wine 0.0.20050310-1.1. I > also get the ITypeInfo, register_ifstub, and RtlCompactHeap messages, > so I wouldn't worry about those. The long file name didn't cause me > any trouble either. If you start pptview without a file name argument, > it will start with an "Open File" dialog box. Test that first before > opening a ppt file.
pptview without the file argument does start and gives me a file open dialog. However, when I select the file, it says "PowerPoint view can't read". > > The file name is passed directly on to wine and pptview with no > munging, so a relative path works (foo/bar.ppt), an absolute wine path > works (z:/foo/bar.ppt), but an absolute Unix path does not work > (/foo/bar.ppt). I feel that last item is a bug. It's currently worked > around in the .desktop file by cd'ing to the document's directory and > running pptview there. That could be done in the /usr/bin/pptview > shell script though where it could solve the more general case. > > I expect this problem is somehow related to your wine configuration. > Try moving your ~/.wine directory out of the way and test pptview with > a clean slate. Same problem. > > Cheers, > Shaun At this point, I thought maybe the file was corrupt. But I sent it to someone running WinXP and she could see it fine. ii pptview 8.0-2 view PowerPoint slide shows ii wine 0.0.20050310-1.1 Windows Emulator (Binary Emulator) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
