What is there to view .PPS Power point apps?

I'm running XP Sp3. Dont have \MS office. I want to view some of them
PPS files. Is there some sort of FREE viewer I can get?

Thanks

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I'm running XP Sp3. Dont have \MS office. I want to view some of them
PPS files. Is there some sort of FREE viewer I can get?

PP viewer available from MS and elsewhere

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...ils.aspx?id=13 Microsoft
PowerPoint Viewer lets you view full-featured presentations created in
PowerPoint 97 and later versions.

Since you don't have an Office suite, you would do well to get Libre
Office which also supports your XP



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Mike Easter

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:08:01 -0500, wrote:

I'm running XP Sp3. Dont have \MS office. I want to view some of them
PPS files. Is there some sort of FREE viewer I can get?

Thanks

LibreOffice.

http://www.libreoffice.org/

It's free. There is a portable version available.

http://www.libreoffice.org/download/portable-versions/

When you install, check "delete extra languages". It'll save
space.
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I'm running XP Sp3. Dont have \MS office. I want to view some of them
PPS files. Is there some sort of FREE viewer I can get?

Thanks


THere's three potential elements at play here.

1) PPT Viewer (Microsoft download) for .ppt
2) Some kind of Compatibility Pack
translates pptx to ppt (Microsoft download)
3) LibreOffice

If the plan is to use (1), you generally install (2).
Then, you will be able to view (but not edit), a lot
of PowerPoint slide sets (both legacy .ppt but also
the newer .pptx).

PPTX is described here a bit. It's a ZIP file...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

Now, after installing (1)+(2), you decide to install (3),
there is a slight interaction.

If you ask (1) to view a .pptx, (1) wants to call (2) for
translation services. But somehow, LibreOffice intercepts the
call, and (1) fails. This kind of negates the advantage
of having all of them installed. (Maybe this can be fixed,
by taking away the file mapping of pptx to LibreOffice,
but I didn't spend time messing with that.)

And if using (3) by itself, for everything, there is
never a guarantee of 100% compatibility. Maybe the output
doesn't look quite right. Remember that Office has
a lot of crazy multimedia integration features (video playing
in Word documents), and LibreOffice isn't guaranteed
to do all of that crazy stuff. If you had EXE macros in
Excel, maybe they wouldn't work in LibreOffice Calc.

While you can attempt to do all three, if you see
some issues, that's a hint as to what could happen.
I haven't put a lot of test time into it, because
I don't deal with Office documents on a regular
basis.

I would be perfectly happy to do (1)+(2) and use it
for viewing. I would be perfectly happy to use just
(3) by itself, knowing that sometimes the output
isn't cosmetically perfect. Those are the choices
(unless this has been fixed somehow, which I doubt).

And leaving out (2) isn't all that practical, as you
really need to add the translation services to make
the free Microsoft viewers attractive.

Paul

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:28:19 -0700, Mike Easter
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wrote:
I'm running XP Sp3. Dont have \MS office. I want to view some of them
PPS files. Is there some sort of FREE viewer I can get?

PP viewer available from MS and elsewhere

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...ils.aspx?id=13 Microsoft
PowerPoint Viewer lets you view full-featured presentations created in
PowerPoint 97 and later versions.

Since you don't have an Office suite, you would do well to get Libre
Office which also supports your XP

That viewer should be all I need. I just got some PPS files sent to me,
contained in a ZIP file. THey are from a graphic artist and contain some
sort of graphics of their art work. I dont know why they dont just have
them as JPG , GIF, or BMP format, but these are what they sernt me.

Libre Office came pre-installed on one of my old laptop computers, but
it's not something I ever used or needed. Wordpad does everything I need
for word processing and I have no need for any of that stuff in those
suites. That computer died years ago. This is likely the one and only
time I will ever need to view a PPS file.

Thank You!

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On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:28:19 -0700, Mike Easter
wrote:

wrote:
I'm running XP Sp3. Dont have \MS office. I want to view some of them
PPS files. Is there some sort of FREE viewer I can get?
PP viewer available from MS and elsewhere

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...ils.aspx?id=13 Microsoft
PowerPoint Viewer lets you view full-featured presentations created in
PowerPoint 97 and later versions.

Since you don't have an Office suite, you would do well to get Libre
Office which also supports your XP

That viewer should be all I need. I just got some PPS files sent to me,
contained in a ZIP file. THey are from a graphic artist and contain some
sort of graphics of their art work. I dont know why they dont just have
them as JPG , GIF, or BMP format, but these are what they sernt me.

Libre Office came pre-installed on one of my old laptop computers, but
it's not something I ever used or needed. Wordpad does everything I need
for word processing and I have no need for any of that stuff in those
suites. That computer died years ago. This is likely the one and only
time I will ever need to view a PPS file.

Thank You!


If you need a sample .pps file to compare against, there is one here.

http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/w...ry/example.pps

Here, I opened the sample file with a Hex Editor (top pane). And
below that is what it looks like, if opened with 7ZIP.

https://s7.postimg.org/dmiwjlvjf/pps_example_file.gif

( http://7-zip.org/ archive opening tool / compress / decompress )

The file has an "Office-like" hex signature at the beginning
of the file.

D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1

The Hex Editor used in the top pane is this one (version 1.7.7.0).

https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

That's just in case your files are not actually .pps but something else.

You can also use the port of Unix/Linux "file" command, but
that's a bit of a nuisance to set up. This is a command line
utility for sniffing file content and giving a one line summary.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/file.htm

file.exe example.pps

The output in that case (a ridiculous amount of detail) is:

example.pps;
CDF V2 Document, Little Endian,
Os: Windows, Version 5.0, Code page: 1252,
Title: Microsoft PowerPoint,
Author: IT Services,
Template: E:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\Presentation Designs\ANGLES.POT,
Last Saved By: **** ******
Revision Number: 9,
Name of Creating Application: Microsoft PowerPoint,
Total Editing Time: 04:56:21,
Last Printed: Mon Jun 14 15:32:28 1999,
Create Time/Date: Sun Jun 13 17:01:52 1999,
Last Saved Time/Date: Tue Sep 09 12:22:16 2003,
Number of Words: 455

HTH,
Paul

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On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:28:19 -0700, Mike Easter
wrote:

wrote:
I'm running XP Sp3. Dont have \MS office. I want to view some of them
PPS files. Is there some sort of FREE viewer I can get?

PP viewer available from MS and elsewhere

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...ils.aspx?id=13 Microsoft
PowerPoint Viewer lets you view full-featured presentations created in
PowerPoint 97 and later versions.
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That viewer should be all I need. I just got some PPS files sent to me,
contained in a ZIP file. THey are from a graphic artist and contain some
sort of graphics of their art work. I dont know why they dont just have
them as JPG , GIF, or BMP format, but these are what they sernt me.
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Because that's what they work with: a .pps slide contains multiple
elements, such as shapes, blocks of text, arrows and so on, which they
can move around, alter, delete, and so on. Once converted into a bitmap,
they can't do any of that; it would never occur to them to do so, unless
you specifically asked them to. (Perhaps a more perceptive graphic
artist might realise there are people who don't have the ability to view
the file in the form they work on it; I don't know your relationship
with said GA.)
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