Save as pps and Package for CD

[Mitch Gallant]

(1) I gather Save As .. pps does not include any linked audio files (e.g.
mp3) so they must be distributed along with the pps show file?

(2) Using Package for CD by default puts in the external required linked
files as well as PowerPoint Viewer 2003. I noticed a few other dlls, an
autorun.inf and play.bat files in the PresentationCD folder. On the target
computer which executes a CD burnt with these files, does that target
computer always use the pptview.exe to launch the ppt file? is the
pptview.exe installed ? or just executed via the CD?

- Mitch

 

[Guest]

The file will run from the CD - the viewer does not need to be installed.

If you want to embed mp3 files you can convert them to RIFF Wavs with CDex
(free) and these will embed . RIFF Wavs are not larger than mp3 files!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

(1) I gather Save As .. pps does not include any linked audio files (e.g.
mp3) so they must be distributed along with the pps show file?

Exactly so.

(2) Using Package for CD by default puts in the external required linked
files as well as PowerPoint Viewer 2003. I noticed a few other dlls, an
autorun.inf and play.bat files in the PresentationCD folder. On the target
computer which executes a CD burnt with these files, does that target
computer always use the pptview.exe to launch the ppt file? is the
pptview.exe installed ? or just executed via the CD?

It's impossible to combine "always" and "user" in an assertion that's also
required to be accurate. ;-)

But if the user's system is set up to autorun newly inserted CDs and they allow
that to happen, then yes; the Autorun will fire off the BAT file and the BAT
file will launch the CD copy of the PPT viewer.

The viewer's connected to the thigh bone, the music goes round and round and
comes out here, take one down, pass it around, 98 bottle... oops. Must've
missed my turnoff.

If the user later doubleclicks the PPT/PPS icon from the CD, all bets are off.