Autorun PPT XP presentation on CD (with included PPT 2003 viewer)

[Dave G]

Hi group...

I'm trying to create an autorun CD that will show my simple 2002/XP
presentation using the 2003 PPT Viewer.

I can't get this to autorun... can anyone help. Below is step by step detail
of what I am doing:

1

Create a directory “CD Presentation Burn”



2

“Pack & Go” the presentation to the folder “CD Presentation Burn”



3

Double-click “PNGSETUP.EXE“ to unpack



4

Copy the following files from e.g. C:/Program Files/Powerpoint Viewer to the
directory “CD Presentation Burn”



gdiplus.dll

intidate.dll

pptview.exe

ppvwintl.dll

pvreadme.htm

saext.dll

unicows.dll



This puts the PPT 2003 Viewer into the directory ready to burn the disc



5

Using notepad, open the file Playlist.lst (which was generated after
unpacking in step 3)



Remove the pre-fix /s and the quotation marks and save as playlist.txt



Delete the redundant .lst file… this is because Pack & Go 2002 creates a
..lst file but PPT viewer 2003 wants a .txt file



6

Create a new file in directory “CD Presentation Burn” using notepad and
enter the following exactly:



[autorun]

open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"



Save the file as autorun.inf



7

Create a new file in directory “CD Presentation Burn” using notepad and
enter the following exactly:



@pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"



Save the file as play.bat



8

Test by double clicking the play.bat file



9

Burn all files in “CD Presentation Burn” to the root of the cd-rom







So far so good but it won't autoplay. To make matters more interesting... If
I explore the CD and click on the play.bat file it WILL run the viewer from
the CD and play the presentation...



Any suggestions much appreciated



Dave G

 

[Dave G]

Hi group...

<snip>

Now to make matters worse I've now got it to work.... but I changed 2 things
and I don't know which one has made the difference

The first thing I modified was the autorun.inf file...

My original was this...

[autorun]
open=pptview.exe/L "playlist.txt"... I added a space between exe and /L so
that it became this...

[autorun]
open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"

The second thing I modified was the burning option to finalise after
burning.

It now works perfectly... but which of the above two changes has made the
difference?????

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Dave G

Some called Echo has done all the hard work for you

Autorun CD (do it yourself) Using the New Viewer
http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm


Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com

 

[Dave G]

Dave G

Some called Echo has done all the hard work for you

Autorun CD (do it yourself) Using the New Viewer
http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm


Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com

That's a great site... thanks

It's now working perfectly

 

[Sonia]

Command line switches are preceeded with a space, so it was the first change
that corrected your problem. However, you always want to finalize your
CD's to ensure that they will run on all other systems. It's an easy one to
forget because it, of course, will test perfectly on your system even though
the CD has not be "locked".

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The first thing I modified was the autorun.inf file...

My original was this...

[autorun]
open=pptview.exe/L "playlist.txt"... I added a space between exe and /L so
that it became this...

[autorun]
open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"

This is probably the keeper; as you're not allowed to have a file named
ppview.exe/L the autorun was probably just failing silently.

On the other hand, finalizing a CD after burn is always a good idea.

 

[Dave G]

By some bizarre twist of fate I saw what Sonia scribbled in
microsoft.public.powerpoint and:

Many thanks for that bit of info...

I've made a few coasters over the past two days but I'm pleased that it
now works

Regards

Dave G