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

[Martins Steinbergs <mar@ml.lv>]

On Monday 20 February 2006 19:20, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse?

most simple solution i can give is to rename file.pps to file.ppt

for my understanding pps does only that that opening it starts slide show not 
the editor and powerpoint installation still has to be present

martins
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