[libreoffice-users] Re: Save Powerpoint presentation as executable

On 06/18/2014 02:59 AM, Cley Faye wrote:
> 2014-06-18 2:37 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com>:
>
> > 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. Saving a LibreOffice
> presentation as a Powerpoint ​
> ​file can lead to all sort of rendering issues and surprises. ​Also, it
> looks like this need to be "installed" on the system.
>
> It would be nice to have an autonomous, minimalist binary for this purpose.
> If you can install software on the target computer, might as well install
> LO directly.

Perhaps someone will pick this back up & get it working properly
<http://opendocumentfellowship.com/odfviewer>
<http://opendocumentfellowship.com/development/contents>
<https://code.google.com/p/odfviewer/downloads/list>
Note the 2006 dates...





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