retitle 563756 opening .pps in a window impossible severity 563756 wishlist tag 563756 + wontfix forcemerge 548959 563756 thanks
Hi, On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:35:17AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..pass, I ditched Microsoft Wintendo 95 on 26 re-installs 12 years > ago that cost me 2 years research data on thermochemical gasification, > so I moved on to SuSE 5.2, and, I got /tmp/Om\ penger\ -\ NO.pps from > what initially looked like a buddy's happy-new-year mail to me and a > bunch of people, and then, like some kinda cross-platform virus. No, that's most probably just a some new year stuff in a autoplay ppt. (As I get too and just ignore) > > > (No, playing the presentation and quitting, which is the point of > > > pps doesn't make it do that). > > ..I lost you totally here: I am not aware of any mail going out > from my box, nor from ooimpress, I got the very firm impression Aha, OK. > /tmp/Om\ penger\ -\ NO.pps had managed to deny me control over > ooimpress on my damned box. You should think more before thinking of viruses, really. (Especially what a pps is) > > > > ...I found _no_ way of windowing or closing the chainmail > > > > without also killing ooimpress. Anyone else wanna try it?: > > > > > > Then you didn't try (or look) hard enough. pps is just a ppt + > > > autoplay. (So as said in 548959 a mv just does it) > > ..huh? Am I, by OOo design policy, not _supposed_ > to run a pps file in ooimpress in e.g. a window??? mv foo.pps foo.ppt. The point of pps is to autoplay. As said, a pps is nothing elese than a autoplayed ppt. Complain to M$ for this "invention". PowerPoint AFAIR (last used it years ago...) also shows the pps and quits. (Didn't try, but doesn't really matter at all). Grüße/Regards, Rene -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' r...@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: D03E3E70 `- Fingerprint: E12D EA46 7506 70CF A960 801D 0AA0 4571 D03E 3E70 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
