[gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

[Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>]

Hi folks,

this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux 
distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt and 
*.pps. The difference is that *.pps have an interpreter linked into the 
document so you can run it under Windows without having Powerpoint.

*.ppt do not cause any problems but *.pps do. If you do a "file something.pps" 
it reports it as "Microsoft Office Document" without qualifying what kind of 
document. 

As long as you have set all your file associations of Microsoft documents to 
OpenOffice, it will work for you because OO still is a monolithic application 
that handles all of them. 

This is not true if you have set file associations of Microsoft documents to 
specific applications in any other office suite, including but not limited to 
koffice. In the case of koffice, kword gets started, It starts to load the 
presentation and decides correctly that this isn't a word document.

So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here 
that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly?

Would be great if we could get that sorted out.

I tried myself. Unfortunately, I am not a magic file expert and failed 
badly. :-(

Uwe

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