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
