Presentation mode in Power Point 2007 with 2 screens

rafaelfri · Post by **rafaelfri** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:39 am

Power Point has a presentation mode where in one screen (the projector) the slides are presented, and in the laptop screen beside the slides, there is a clock and a menu with a smaller version of previous and next slide).
When running Power Point 2007 in Wine 1.3 (Ubuntu 11.10), PowerPoint is not even aware of the presence of the second monitor. Does anyone know how to overcome this?
Thanks!

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:45 am

rafaelfri wrote:Power Point has a presentation mode where in one screen (the projector) the slides are presented, and in the laptop screen beside the slides, there is a clock and a menu with a smaller version of previous and next slide).
When running Power Point 2007 in Wine 1.3 (Ubuntu 11.10), PowerPoint is not even aware of the presence of the second monitor. Does anyone know how to overcome this?
Thanks!

Longstanding bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7416

There is no workaround that I know of.

Alex_G · Post by **Alex_G** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:42 am

You may save presentation file as ppt 2003 and use "LibreOffice Impress", probably it is fully compatible.

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:10 am

Alex_G wrote:You may save presentation file as ppt 2003 and use "LibreOffice Impress", probably it is fully compatible.

You obviously don't use either.

Alex_G · Post by **Alex_G** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:03 am

Just loaded ppt 2003 presentation file and ran slideshow in LibreOffice Impress. All works fine as seems. Though I dunno about effects, maybe some of them has been lost when opening in LO Impress

But Impress could determine all monitors properly.

Alex_G · Post by **Alex_G** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:28 am

Yep. All effects were on their places. I've used MS PowerPoint 2007, saved the file to ppt 97-2003 format, nothing from decor or effects were lost. They become lost only when opening pptx format.

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:03 am

Alex_G wrote:Yep. All effects were on their places. I've used MS PowerPoint 2007, saved the file to ppt 97-2003 format, nothing from decor or effects were lost. They become lost only when opening pptx format.

You are correct that Impress does a better job of handling ppt files than pptx, though my experience has been that even with simple ppt files the placement of the text is slightly off when opened in Impress, so each slide has to be manually fixed, and if the fixed file is then later opened in Powerpoint (2003 or 2007), the placement of the text has to be adjusted back to what it was in the first place. This seemingly insignificant difference is a major problem if there are graphics inserted in precise positions in relation to the text.

Now for your next test, try opening a Powerpoint with embedded video that is set to play on click in Impress.

Alex_G · Post by **Alex_G** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:37 am

Ok. Opened presentation with 15 slides (downloaded it from web), where are pictures and text with background is present (no effects in elements though, except of slide change effect). And didn't noticed no differencies in appearance, when launched it in PowerPoint 2007 and in LibreOffice Impress. Maybe using PowerPoint isn't worth until it has problems with monitor detection?
Esp, if you don't need to share the presentation with others with the file, and only for demonstration, so, using LibreOffice maybe is a pretty good solution. Since It has almost same possibilities

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:07 pm

Alex_G wrote: Since It has almost same possibilities

"Almost same" is not "fully compatible," which was your original claim, and what I am disagreeing with. Impress is no more "fully compatible" with Powerpoint than Gimp is fully compatible with Photoshop. Whether the limitations matter to the OP, only he can say.

Alex_G · Post by **Alex_G** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:10 pm

Excuse me, I bet a little more...

Here is no contradictions.

Fully compatible - regarding to ppt version 2003 (as seems to me), just that I meant.

and

Almost same - regarding to the possibilities (probably 90% of them, means basic, are similar)

As about "Gimp" - for me is more than enough, first - since it's free, second - I haven't so much money for "Photoshop", bcoz this is a Professional Program Complex, (sure I still have it, but exclusively for non-commercial purposes, not for my work (and for learning, or as demo)).

Anyway I just proposed to him a solution, probably temporary.

perryh · Post by **perryh** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:28 pm

"dimesio" <[email protected]> wrote:

... even with simple ppt files the placement of the text is
slightly off when opened in Impress, so each slide has to be
manually fixed, and if the fixed file is then later opened in
Powerpoint (2003 or 2007), the placement of the text has to
be adjusted back to what it was in the first place.

This sounds like a difference in font metrics.
"winetricks corefonts" or "winetricks allfonts" might help.