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rincon155 · Joined: 11 Mar 2011 Posts: 101 Location: Venezuela

I would like to install in Puppy 5.2.8 a Presentation Software called Impressive, which is a program that displays presentation slides: http://impressive.sourceforge.net/
The Web site indicates:
The following software packages are required or recommended to use Impressive:
• Python 2.3, 2.4 or 2.5 — www.python.org (required)
• PyOpenGL (the OpenGL binding for Python) — pyopengl.sourceforge.net (required)
• PyGame (the SDL binding for Python) — www.pygame.org (required)
• PIL, the Python Imaging Library — www.pythonware.com/products/pil (required)
• Xpdf for PDF rendering — www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ (strongly recommended)
• GhostScript for alternate PDF rendering — www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost (optional if Xpdf is present, strongly recommended if it's not)
• pdftk for retrieving PDF metadata (page titles, hyperlinks) — www.accesspdf.com/pdftk (optional, recommended)
• xdg-utils for starting web or e-mail hyperlinks from PDF documents — portland.freedesktop.org (optional, not required on Win32)
• MPlayer for sound and video playback — www.mplayerhq.hu (optional)
Debian users can install all these packages at once by typing:
aptitude install python python-opengl python-pygame python-imaging xpdf-reader gs pdftk xdg-utils mplayer
Generic Installation
After installing the prerequisites mentioned, extract the file impressive.py from the downloadable archive. You can either start it directly or copy it to some location in your $PATH (~/bin or /usr/local/bin are good candidates).
To start a presentation, simply type something like:
impressive.py demo.pdf
Are there pup files to install the requierements, and the main program?
I downloaded the program, then, the zipped file appeared and I did not know how to proceed.
I think this is a posible alternative of a stand alone program to open powerpoint files and edit them.
Please advise. Thank you.

Geoffrey · Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 11:45 Post subject:

Softwaremaker 2008 will do power point, it will read and create them, see Barry's blog http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02435

Barkin · Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 605

disciple · Posted: Wed 02 Nov 2011, 02:23 Post subject:

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3288 Location: Oregon

I have been able to view powerpoint files with LibreOffice, but I have never been able to get sound with any of them.

disciple · Posted: Thu 03 Nov 2011, 07:37 Post subject:

Powerpoint files can have either:

1) embedded .wav files. I have never seen this in the wild, because it would make the file huge. I have seen things which seem to indicate openoffice will play some of them but possibly not all... I'm not sure. I wouldn't try to figure out what is going on without having the presentation that you are having trouble with.

2) or linked files. These can be in a compressed format such as mp3, which I have seen in the wild. When you take a presentation made in powerpoint on Windows to powerpoint on Mac there is a feature to tell it where the linked file is, because the directory structure on a Mac is not the same as on Windows. I believe you need to go through the presentation to manually select each file link and tell it where to find the target. So hopefully you don't have a lot of files Rolling Eyes

As far as I could tell, if you take a presentation made on a Mac to Windows, there is no feature to fix the link, so you need to delete it and add it again. I'm guessing the same problem must occur trying to open on windows a presentation created on windows, if the drive name or file path changes. I'm not sure if openoffice supports linked files, or has a feature to update the links (look and see), but if it doesn't I'd say at least it is being consistent. For Powerpoint to kind of support Powerpoint files, but not really, is a little ridiculous.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5459 Location: Finland

I remember that marco07 posted about success in Polarpup to get powerpoint presentations or Impress presentations to play sound with embedded sound. It needed working gstreamer framework, which is in Polarpup.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=557050#557050

Barkin · Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 605

rincon155 · Joined: 11 Mar 2011 Posts: 101 Location: Venezuela

Thank you Geoffrey, Barkin, disciple, 8-bit, pemasu for all your ideas and discussion so far. I learned a lot from it.
I will try Softwavemaker 2008 since it has a pet file and the package is not very big. My only need is to open ppt files and edit them.
I really appreciate the Puppy Linux Discussion Forum. It always work!!!

rincon155 · Joined: 11 Mar 2011 Posts: 101 Location: Venezuela

rincon155 · Joined: 11 Mar 2011 Posts: 101 Location: Venezuela

I finally installed Softwavemaker 2008. It has some limitations: there are images in .ppt files that it does not show. I will keep my search for a light Linux alternative to Power Point. I am aware that LibreOffice will do the work but is pretty heavy and it includes other packages that I do not need. At least Softwavemaker 2008 will help and it is not that big.

disciple · Posted: Sat 12 Nov 2011, 02:38 Post subject:

rincon155 · Joined: 11 Mar 2011 Posts: 101 Location: Venezuela

Thank you disciple. In this moment I am not urged to open a specific .ppt file. It was a test with Softmaker 2008. It is good to know that this forum has helpful people as you!