SAve powerpoint presentation as executable

Pikov_Andropov · June 17, 2014, 6:44pm

Can LO produce an executable file from a PowerPoint presentation, so
that no viewer is needed at the time the presentation is presented?

Thanks.

Cley_Faye · June 17, 2014, 6:59pm

Unfortunately, not directly.

And there is (as far as I know) no simple "viewer" that could be used for
this purpose, although it might be an interesting development challenge.

As for now, your best four options are:
- Have a portable version of LO at hand. It take some space but is not
unreasonable, and can be launched from most computer you'd have to run a
presentation on
- Export to PDF. Most systems can read PDF, and it guarantee you a (mostly)
perfect render of your presentation, with no surprise. Downsides are: no
transitions, no animations.
- Export to SWF. As a second choice after PDF, since most computer have
some way of reading SWF. Still no transition/animations
- Export as HTML (and not XHTML that doesn't seem to work for me). Still no
transition/animations, but seem to work for simple stuff (including
images), and is mostly guaranteed to work anywhere (including mobile
browsers).

Out of these four options, I'll suggest the first two, as coming across a
computer that doesn't have a PDF reader is uncommon nowadays.

Tom_Davies1 · June 17, 2014, 7:06pm

Hi
LO on a usb-stick using the Portable Apps version or one of their
competitors. There is an excellent one that i keep forgetting the name of
the one that seems to be far quicker at getting the more updated versions
of LO out there faster.
Regards from
Tom

Pikov_Andropov · June 17, 2014, 8:26pm

Tom Davies has written on 6/17/2014 3:06 PM:

Hi
LO on a usb-stick using the Portable Apps version or one of their
competitors. There is an excellent one that i keep forgetting the name of
the one that seems to be far quicker at getting the more updated versions
of LO out there faster.

Excellent one what? Version of LO? An LO competitor? Something else???

Brian_Barker · June 18, 2014, 12:37am

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 .

Brian Barker

Pikov_Andropov · June 18, 2014, 12:41am

Brian Barker has written on 6/17/2014 8:37 PM:

2014-06-17 20:44 GMT+02:00 Pikov Andropov:

Can LO produce an executable file from a PowerPoint presentation,
so that no viewer is needed at the time the presentation is presented?

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 .

But it's not portable.

Brian_Barker · June 18, 2014, 12:56am

Well, I didn't claim it as a solution to your original query (or I might have replied to that). But if you carry the viewer with your presentation and can get permission to install it on target systems, it could be effectively portable.

Brian Barker

TomW1 · June 18, 2014, 1:26am

Pikov:

If you have access to Powerpoint then for Windows, one could try, "PowerPoint's /Package for CD"./ It is an option in Powerpoint. /
/
/Some instructions on how to do it are:

http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/powerpointadvanced/a/package_hub.htm

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/package-a-presentation-for-cd-HA010336719.aspx

/
TomW

Tom_Davies1 · June 17, 2014, 10:56pm

Hi
Win Pen Pack
http://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.1354

Like Portable Apps
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable/

Both/either allow you to install various programs to a usb-stick instead of
oonto the machine you are using. So, when you get to a different Windows
machine (such as one where you might not have permission to install
anything) then you just plug in your usb-stick and there are all those
programs ready with your own configurations.

Of course non-Windows platforms offer a variety of other ways of using a
Usb-stick to make sure you have a system with all your own settings.
Regards from
Tom

wget · June 18, 2014, 10:18am

The 4.1 is the mature branch version typically for enterprises, while
the 4.2 branch is for standard users. You should definitely choose
this one (4.2).

Also, Pikov, please answer to the list next time and not to me
directly. Otherwise, others cannot see the question you asked me.

@others

Please stop promoting non FOSS alternatives while LibreOffice will
suit this use case perfectly. Above all, like you said, the PowerPoint
viewer is non portable, which can cause issues if the user hasn't the
right to install any software on the machine. For students, using
LibreOffice on school computers (which often have install
restrictions) is the best solution.

Regards,

- --
William Gathoye
<william@gathoye.be>

Pedro_Lino · June 18, 2014, 10:39am

pikov22 wrote

Tom Davies has written on 6/17/2014 3:06 PM:

Hi
LO on a usb-stick using the Portable Apps version or one of their
competitors. There is an excellent one that i keep forgetting the name
of
the one that seems to be far quicker at getting the more updated versions
of LO out there faster.

Excellent one what? Version of LO? An LO competitor? Something else???

The "excellent one" is X-LibreOffice from WinPenPack. It is NOT a competitor
and it has been approved by TDF (although it is only announced on the
Italian LibreOffice page)
http://it.libreoffice.org/download/portatile/
"X-LibreOffice è realizzato per uso portatile da winPenPack.com con il
permesso e l'assistenza di The Document Foundation."
Translation: "X-LibreOffice is produced for portable use by winPenPack.com
with permission and assistance from The Document Foundation."

You can get the latest version from here
http://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.1354
or older versions from Sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winpenpack/files/X-LibreOffice/releases/

For explanation why X-LibreOffice is (in my opinion and from others)
superior to the PortableApps version, see this topic
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Issues-downloading-LibreOffice-Portable-tp4085447p4088958.html

Regards,
Pedro

Brian_Barker · June 18, 2014, 11:57am

For the avoidance of doubt, I didn't suggest this, of course: the original query claimed to be (as the Subject header still indicates) about a Powerpoint presentation, not an Impress one (albeit perhaps saved as such from LibreOffice). You may be interpreting "Powerpoint presentation" to mean just "presentation" (which could even have been what the original questioner meant but didn't say).

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

Tom_Davies1 · June 18, 2014, 11:20am

Hi
There are problems with PowerPoint.

Pp can't use an Android or iThing as a remote-control for flicking between
slides. Impress can. Pp can't be installed to a usb-stick as a Portable
App or WinPenPack so it relies on having permissions and time to install to
the machine being used. If you DO have permissions then installing
LibreOffice/OpenOffice is faster and doesn't need a license.

Regards from
Tom

Pikov_Andropov · June 18, 2014, 3:51pm

Cley Faye has written on 6/18/2014 5:59 AM:

If you can install software on the target computer, might as well install
LO directly.

Not possible in my case.

Pikov_Andropov · June 18, 2014, 3:56pm

Tom Davies has written on 6/18/2014 7:20 AM:

Hi
There are problems with PowerPoint.

Pp can't use an Android or iThing as a remote-control for flicking between
slides. Impress can.

I saw an Android app for controlling PP in PlayStore/

Pp can't be installed to a usb-stick as a Portable
App or WinPenPack so it relies on having permissions and time to install to
the machine being used.

As someone pointed out, if you have PP, you can publish to a local
directory and then copy that to a flash drive. When you subsequently
plug that drive in to a USB port, Windows AutoPlay should start the
presentation. All self-contained with no installations necessary.

BTW, how do those remote control apps work? I.e., what do you need on
your computer?

Thanks.

Pikov_Andropov · June 18, 2014, 3:58pm

Brian Barker has written on 6/18/2014 7:57 AM:

2014-06-18 2:37 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker:

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.

For the avoidance of doubt, I didn't suggest this, of course: the
original query claimed to be (as the Subject header still indicates)
about a Powerpoint presentation, not an Impress one (albeit perhaps
saved as such from LibreOffice). You may be interpreting "Powerpoint
presentation" to mean just "presentation" (which could even have been
what the original questioner meant but didn't say).

I trust this helps.

Thanks, Brian. My question was prompted because a member of my wife's
garden club brought a PP on a flash drive for a seminar and then tried
to plug it in to another member's laptop, a laptop that did not have the
PP executable installed!

reisi007 · June 18, 2014, 5:06pm

Hi,

I do have PowerPoint as well, but do not know the option. You can export as video, but this is suboptimal.
Did you try to export to SWF (flash) in LibO?
Why don't you install LibO in parallel. It works for all operating systems (I did not test myself on Mac), but if you know the target OS, this will work
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel

Liebe Grüße, / Yours,
Florian Reisinger