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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / July 2005Viewers and converters
Is there ANY viewer or converter available that will allow me to 'play' a slideshow with ALL the animations and transitions available to me in PowerPoint 2002? Yes. It's the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer and you can download and install it from http://tinyurl.com/nmze  SignatureSonia Coleman Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials > Is there ANY viewer or converter available that will allow me to 'play' a > slideshow with ALL the animations and transitions available to me in > PowerPoint 2002? Sonia, Many thanks for your input. I wasn't adequately precise in my question. I had intended to imply a viewer that would reproduce all facets of a presentation developed in PP2002. Unfortunately, this viewer does not support opening linked or imbedded objects so that it does not permit playing a CD track during a presentation via INSERT>MOVIES AND SOUNDS>PLAY CD TRACK. Maybe I can work around the problem somehow but for now.....??? Again, many thanks, Charlie DiGiovanna > Yes. It's the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer and you can download and install it from > http://tinyurl.com/nmze > > Is there ANY viewer or converter available that will allow me to 'play' a > > slideshow with ALL the animations and transitions available to me in > > PowerPoint 2002? There's another annoyance with this viewer: it doesn't recognize .txt files so one cannot string presentations together via a text file and have them play in sequence as one could with previous versions of the PowerPoint viewers. > Sonia, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > > slideshow with ALL the animations and transitions available to me in > > > PowerPoint 2002? > There's another annoyance with this viewer: it doesn't recognize .txt files > so one cannot string presentations together via a text file and have them > play in sequence as one could with previous versions of the PowerPoint > viewers. ?? Sure it does. In fact, if you use Package for CD in PPT 2003 and add more than one PPT file, the Package for CD creates an autorun.inf file that looks like this: [autorun] open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt" Then the playlist.text file looks like this: Presentation1.ppt Presentation2.ppt SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com Let's back up. You may think it can't open a playlist, but it can - - from the command line or from a bat file or from an autorun.inf file on a CD, for example. The Viewer comes with a Readme file that describes the command line switches, etc. However, if you just want to string presentations together, I recommend that you use the method described in detail at http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm. Regarding the music, using music from a CD is probably going to be a problem. The Viewer is intended for viewing presentations that someone else sends you. It's hard to also send the CD. <G> You're always better off ripping the music from the CD to files on your hard drive and inserting them from there. That way you can send the music files with the presentation. This should help: Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or email a presentation http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm > There's another annoyance with this viewer: it doesn't recognize .txt files > so one cannot string presentations together via a text file and have them [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > > > slideshow with ALL the animations and transitions available to me in > > > > PowerPoint 2002? > You're always better off ripping the music > from the CD to files on your hard drive and inserting them from there. That way > you can send the music files with the presentation. Bearing in mind, of course, any copyright laws that may prohibit this... Yes, of course. > > You're always better off ripping the music > > from the CD to files on your hard drive and inserting them from there. > That way > > you can send the music files with the presentation. > > Bearing in mind, of course, any copyright laws that may prohibit this... That's right. You must respect copyright. Get permission first. TAJ > > You're always better off ripping the music > > from the CD to files on your hard drive and inserting them from there. > That way > > you can send the music files with the presentation. > > Bearing in mind, of course, any copyright laws that may prohibit this... I haven't had a moment today to work on any of the input I've recieved on this question but I don't think I can do continuous background music by putting music files on each slide, can I? It would seem to me that the piece would start over as each slide became active. > That's right. You must respect copyright. Get permission first. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > > > Bearing in mind, of course, any copyright laws that may prohibit this... Read through the following to understand how to play a music file across multiple slides. Play sounds across multiple slides (A WAV runs through it) http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00047.htm (Don't put a file on multiple slides.) > I haven't had a moment today to work on any of the input I've recieved on > this question but I don't think I can do continuous background music by [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > > > Bearing in mind, of course, any copyright laws that may prohibit this... WOW! Thanks, Sonia!!!! > Read through the following to understand how to play a music file across > multiple slides. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > > > > > > > Bearing in mind, of course, any copyright laws that may prohibit this... Sonia, I hate to bother you again because you've been so terribly patient and helpful but I cannot find the viewer Readme file. I downloaded the viewer from the URL you sent and all I got was a .MSI file that installed the application (which runs fine). Can you point me at the Readme file so I don't have to search my entire hard drive? Thanks Charlie D. > Let's back up. You may think it can't open a playlist, but it can - - from the > command line or from a bat file or from an autorun.inf file on a CD, for [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > > > > slideshow with ALL the animations and transitions available to me in > > > > > PowerPoint 2002? Actually, see http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/powerpoint_2003_viewer.htm. I've gathered the info there. The Readme file used to be helpful, but it got changed somewhere along the line and now it's in a KB article. > Sonia, > I hate to bother you again because you've been so terribly patient and [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > > > > > slideshow with ALL the animations and transitions available to me in > > > > > > PowerPoint 2002? Thank you Sonja. This was, what I looked for. Nice to meet you! Klaus > Yes. It's the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer and you can download and install it from > http://tinyurl.com/nmze > > Is there ANY viewer or converter available that will allow me to 'play' a > > slideshow with ALL the animations and transitions available to me in > > PowerPoint 2002? |
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