[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
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[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
Yes, this auto presentation mode is very confusing for me, because I'm not able to open to edit/modify a pps file. The open command from the file menu is behaving similarly - auto play the presentation, and close the document, after it stopped - so there is no workaround for this problem ! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 Title: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
Is anybody watching this ? Besides the default open mode which is let's say just a mild annoyance, the other problem is that there seems to be NO WAY to exit presentation mode after such a file was opened... pressing escape just closes the whole application, which in turn is a VERY annoying BUG. So, is anyone watching/doing something about this ? -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
there is a much shorter version (if one wants to disable automatic presentation for all files). just: sudo -s 'echo "#!/bin/sh" > /usr/bin/ooimpress' sudo -s 'echo "/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -n -impress \"\...@\"" >> /usr/bin/ooimpress' -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
** Changed in: openoffice Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
** Bug watch added: OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker #52755 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52755 ** Changed in: openoffice Status: Invalid => Unknown ** Changed in: openoffice Remote watch: OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker #56919 => OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker #52755 -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
** Changed in: openoffice Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
I agree, the default behaviour should be user configurable. And is there alt least a way to exit presentation mode after such a file was opened ? Pressing escape closes the application -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
As there's no option to disable the auto presentation mode, should I open a new bug? Fixes should never let the user without options. And this one change the default behaviour of the software, it's very intrusive. -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
** Changed in: openoffice.org (Baltix) Status: New => Fix Released -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
@Daniel: MUCH shorter solution, thanks! (I didn't know about the switch... :) ) -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
Correction! The small script above should be: #!/bin/bash ooimpress -n "$*" exit # The special parameter $*, within double quotes, # expands to the positional parameters, starting from one, # as a single word with the value of each parameter separated # by white space (the first character of the IFS special variable). # It is necessary if the passed file name has spaces. -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
I also hate .pps files opening automatically in presentation mode. Mainly because of those "elaborated" presentations coming via e-mail, with the letters falling down from the top of the page - one at a time - to form frases (argh!) The solution below worked fine for me. Try it. The command ooimpress has the -n option: # ooimpress -n filename which is intended to create/edit a new file, using filename as a template. To all intents and purposes, it is the same of opening filename in edition mode. So, just create a shell script named ooimpress-edit (or whatever) containing: #!/bin/bash ooimpress -n $1 exit As root, save this file to /usr/local/bin (which should be in your $PATH). Don't forget to make it executable! (I mention it because I always do...) Then edit the "file associations" (mime types) and include ooimpress-edit as the first option to open .pps files. Of course, do the same in your e-mail client (in Thunderbird: Preferences->Attachments->View & Edit Actions...). Cheers -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
I have the same problem (I'm no longer able to open pps in edit mode) and I
solved it with this script. It's brute-force solution (temporarily renames pps
to ppt), but it works.
SCRIPT
#!/bin/bash
#script to open pps files in edit mode in Ubuntu
#script contains code found on several places on the internet and can handle
only one parameter (file)
fullpath=$1
filename="${fullpath##*/}" # Strip longest match of */
from start
dir="${fullpath:0:${#fullpath} - ${#filename}}" # Substring from 0 thru pos of
filename
base="${filename%.[^.]*}" # Strip shortest match of .
plus at least one non-dot char from end
ext="${filename:${#base} + 1}" # Substring from len of base
thru end
if [[ -z "$base" && -n "$ext" ]]; then # If we have an extension and
no base, it's really the base
base=".$ext"
ext=""
fi
extnew=$ext
if [ "$ext" == "pps" ] || [ "$ext" == "PPS" ]; then
extnew="ppt"
fi
if [ "$dir" == "" ]; then
dir="."
fi
oldname="$dir/$filename"
newname="$dir/$base.$extnew"
mv "$oldname" "$newname"
ooimpress "$newname"
mv "$newname" "$oldname"
SCRIPT
Save it as ooimpress-noshow, do
chmod a+x ooimpress-noshow
and open your pps files with it. You can change association globally (from
Properties on pps file), or (probably better) just for some programs in their
local preferences (Thunderbird, Firefox, ...).
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[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
How can we disable this function It's not a fix if it breaks default bahaviour. -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
Confirmed fixed. Apparently this is an Ubuntu-specific change, as with Windows version 3.1.1 still does not work. ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
I would think this is fixed in karmic; PPSs now open in presentation mode. Perhaps this bug should be marked as fixed? -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
** Also affects: openoffice.org (Baltix) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
** Changed in: openoffice Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 302050] Re: MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low Status: New => Triaged -- MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
