SAve powerpoint presentation as executable

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#21

Hi,

Why do not use parallel installed LibreOffice? Or use WebODF: http://webodf.org/
LibreOffice cannot be big and small at the same time :slight_smile:

Liebe Grüße, / Yours,
Florian Reisinger

#22

Hi,

Why do not use parallel installed LibreOffice? Or use WebODF: http://webodf.org/

I've not been able to get webodf to work
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webodf/?src=search> on
Firefox or SeaMonkey (linux). I'll fire up Windows tomorrow and try it
there.

#23

Hi :slight_smile:
One problem is that the original poster can't install anything onto the
target machines.

If they were able to install then the MS route means worrying about having
the right version, as a viewer for MS Office 2010 might not display files
from MS Office 2007 or 2013 properly. There might be problems with
licenses, license fees and other costs, and/or the chance of getting
trapped into a vendor-lock-in. Why are we still trying to find an MS
answer for this? Are we an MS forum/mailing-list now?

Florian's answer about the WebODF thing sounds like it might be worth
exploring. The Portable Apps / WinPenPack route might be another way of
dodging the need to install something on the target machine. Does the
WebODF work a bit like google-docs? Is it a Cloud-based install rather
than a machine-based install?

On Kubuntu a quick search of the repos turned up a few specialist
slide-show packages that might well be better than either PowerPoint or
Impress. Generally PowerPoint slides-shows all look a "a bit samey",
unprofessional with rubbishy animations (at best) and often put people to
sleep.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#24

No, you're mistaken.

Using PP from Office 2007, I was able create a directory that contained
the following files:

AUTORUN.INF
THE_ORIGINAL_PPP_FILE.ppt
INTLDATE.DLL
microsoft.vc80.crt.manifest
msvcm80.dll
msvcp80.dll
MSVCR80.dll
OGL.DLL
play.bat
playlist.txt
PPTVIEW.EXE
pptview.exe.manifest
PPVWINTL.DLL
PVREADME.HTM
SAEXT.DLL

I then copied the contents of that directory to a flash drive and
plugged that flash drive into another computer. I then opened Windows
Explorer to that drive and clicked "play.bat".

No installation needed!

#25

Correct. Many years ago (circa 1999) I created a CD using PowerPoint
Viewer 95 to distribute to our veteran's group. I purposely set it up
so that whoever used it didn't have to have PowerPoint on their PC to
view the slide show. I still have the CD's, still have the original
files, and it still runs just fine on Windows.

Here is the contents of that autorun.inf file:

[autorun]
OPEN=PPVIEW32.EXE \present\present.lst
ICON=PPVIEW32.EXE,0

Thanks for jogging my memory.