html link

[Guest]

Hi,
I've done an interactive presentation that has links to pdf files. This was
done on ppt2000 and widows xp. To get around the annoying warning sign 'this
file may harm your computer' I have saved the link page as web page and from
my pps presentation put a hyperlink to this page in the same folder
directory. So from the pps when this link is pressed it opens the html page
in internet explorer with links to the pdf files. I then packaged the lot
through ppvieer 97 and burnt on Cd.

Problem-it works fine on some machines and on others it does not bring up
the html page. Any suggestions.

Many thanks

Ramin

 

[Echo S]

Nice workaround, Ramin.

How did you create the link to the HTML page? What is the link?

 

[Guest]

Hi,
The first link to, say a pdf document or any other programme is done in a
powerpoint slide but instead of saving it as a pps or ppt I save it as a web
page,
'complete presentation' and browser support Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
or higher.
This saves the presentation with the links as an html page which does not
bring the dreaded virus warning. From my main presentation I can now create
buttons and hypelink them to file, in this case an html page in the same
directory. When the
hypelink button is pressed in the main presentation it opens the html page
in Internet explorer in a new window and now any of the pdfs or other linked
files can be launched without the warning. When the ie explorer window is
closed it goes back to the same presentation which remains in the background.
This also works really well if you are using Impatica as in when the
presentaions are Impatised it seemes seamless in iintenet explorer and no
virus warning

This works fine usually but on some machines with xp when the link is
pressed nothing happens. I wonder if this has to do with the way the html
page is cunstructed and may be I should save the page in html for ie and
netscape. I'm not an expert in html and
wanted some help as to find out how Powerpoint saves things as a web page
and in doing so is this not compatible with certain browsers.

Thanks for any help

Ramin

Nice workaround, Ramin.

How did you create the link to the HTML page? What is the link?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi,
I've done an interactive presentation that has links to pdf files. This was
done on ppt2000 and widows xp. To get around the annoying warning sign 'this
file may harm your computer' I have saved the link page as web page and from
my pps presentation put a hyperlink to this page in the same folder
directory. So from the pps when this link is pressed it opens the html page
in internet explorer with links to the pdf files. I then packaged the lot
through ppvieer 97 and burnt on Cd.

Problem-it works fine on some machines and on others it does not bring up
the html page. Any suggestions.

Many thanks

Ramin

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

This works fine usually but on some machines with xp when the link is

pressed nothing happens. I wonder if this has to do with the way the html
page is cunstructed and may be I should save the page in html for ie and
netscape.

Have you checked to see what the default browser is on the computers where the
link to the HTML page doesn't work? Some browsers don't support single-file/MHT
HTML, it seems.


I'm not an expert in html and

wanted some help as to find out how Powerpoint saves things as a web page
and in doing so is this not compatible with certain browsers.

Thanks for any help

Ramin

Nice workaround, Ramin.

How did you create the link to the HTML page? What is the link?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi,
I've done an interactive presentation that has links to pdf files. This was
done on ppt2000 and widows xp. To get around the annoying warning sign 'this
file may harm your computer' I have saved the link page as web page and from
my pps presentation put a hyperlink to this page in the same folder
directory. So from the pps when this link is pressed it opens the html page
in internet explorer with links to the pdf files. I then packaged the lot
through ppvieer 97 and burnt on Cd.

Problem-it works fine on some machines and on others it does not bring up
the html page. Any suggestions.

Many thanks

Ramin

 

[Echo S]

Thanks for this information, Ramin.

I was thinking that maybe when you linked to the PDFs, the HTML link was
still pointing to PDFs on your harddrive or something. But since it seems to
work fine usually, then I'm sure that's not the problem!

This works fine usually but on some machines with xp when the link is
pressed nothing happens. I wonder if this has to do with the way the html
page is cunstructed and may be I should save the page in html for ie and
netscape. I'm not an expert in html and
wanted some help as to find out how Powerpoint saves things as a web page
and in doing so is this not compatible with certain browsers.

Can you look at the HTML source and see what the link is?

I think it's interesting that it's Windows XP machines (? I assume that's
the XP you're talking about) that are giving you the problems. Wonder if it
could have something to do with SP-2 security settings? Or maybe the XP
machines don't have Adobe Reader installed? Or it's something to do with the
default browser version.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi,
The first link to, say a pdf document or any other programme is done in a
powerpoint slide but instead of saving it as a pps or ppt I save it as a web
page,
'complete presentation' and browser support Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
or higher.
This saves the presentation with the links as an html page which does not
bring the dreaded virus warning. From my main presentation I can now create
buttons and hypelink them to file, in this case an html page in the same
directory. When the
hypelink button is pressed in the main presentation it opens the html page
in Internet explorer in a new window and now any of the pdfs or other linked
files can be launched without the warning. When the ie explorer window is
closed it goes back to the same presentation which remains in the background.
This also works really well if you are using Impatica as in when the
presentaions are Impatised it seemes seamless in iintenet explorer and no
virus warning

This works fine usually but on some machines with xp when the link is
pressed nothing happens. I wonder if this has to do with the way the html
page is cunstructed and may be I should save the page in html for ie and
netscape. I'm not an expert in html and
wanted some help as to find out how Powerpoint saves things as a web page
and in doing so is this not compatible with certain browsers.

Thanks for any help

Ramin

Nice workaround, Ramin.

How did you create the link to the HTML page? What is the link?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi,
I've done an interactive presentation that has links to pdf files.

This
was

done on ppt2000 and widows xp. To get around the annoying warning

sign
'this

file may harm your computer' I have saved the link page as web page

and
from

my pps presentation put a hyperlink to this page in the same folder
directory. So from the pps when this link is pressed it opens the

html
page

in internet explorer with links to the pdf files. I then packaged the lot
through ppvieer 97 and burnt on Cd.

Problem-it works fine on some machines and on others it does not bring up
the html page. Any suggestions.

Many thanks

Ramin

 

[Guest]

Hi Echo,

Went on your site, really good. I think the problem is with the way
Powerpoint codes the html. Repeated the same thing but created the webpage
in Dreamweaver and not power point and it now plays on all machines
irrelevant of the os. This one got me beat, so if you are using this method
do your html page not in powerpoint.

Cheers

Ramin

Thanks for this information, Ramin.

I was thinking that maybe when you linked to the PDFs, the HTML link was
still pointing to PDFs on your harddrive or something. But since it seems to
work fine usually, then I'm sure that's not the problem!

This works fine usually but on some machines with xp when the link is
pressed nothing happens. I wonder if this has to do with the way the html
page is cunstructed and may be I should save the page in html for ie and
netscape. I'm not an expert in html and
wanted some help as to find out how Powerpoint saves things as a web page
and in doing so is this not compatible with certain browsers.

Can you look at the HTML source and see what the link is?

I think it's interesting that it's Windows XP machines (? I assume that's
the XP you're talking about) that are giving you the problems. Wonder if it
could have something to do with SP-2 security settings? Or maybe the XP
machines don't have Adobe Reader installed? Or it's something to do with the
default browser version.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi,
The first link to, say a pdf document or any other programme is done in a
powerpoint slide but instead of saving it as a pps or ppt I save it as a web
page,
'complete presentation' and browser support Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
or higher.
This saves the presentation with the links as an html page which does not
bring the dreaded virus warning. From my main presentation I can now create
buttons and hypelink them to file, in this case an html page in the same
directory. When the
hypelink button is pressed in the main presentation it opens the html page
in Internet explorer in a new window and now any of the pdfs or other linked
files can be launched without the warning. When the ie explorer window is
closed it goes back to the same presentation which remains in the background.
This also works really well if you are using Impatica as in when the
presentaions are Impatised it seemes seamless in iintenet explorer and no
virus warning

This works fine usually but on some machines with xp when the link is
pressed nothing happens. I wonder if this has to do with the way the html
page is cunstructed and may be I should save the page in html for ie and
netscape. I'm not an expert in html and
wanted some help as to find out how Powerpoint saves things as a web page
and in doing so is this not compatible with certain browsers.

Thanks for any help

Ramin

Nice workaround, Ramin.

How did you create the link to the HTML page? What is the link?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com


Hi,
I've done an interactive presentation that has links to pdf files. This
was
done on ppt2000 and widows xp. To get around the annoying warning sign
'this
file may harm your computer' I have saved the link page as web page and
from
my pps presentation put a hyperlink to this page in the same folder
directory. So from the pps when this link is pressed it opens the html
page
in internet explorer with links to the pdf files. I then packaged the lot
through ppvieer 97 and burnt on Cd.

Problem-it works fine on some machines and on others it does not bring up
the html page. Any suggestions.

Many thanks

Ramin

 

[Echo S]

Glad you got it working, Ramin. You're right, PPT does create strange HTML
code.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi Echo,

Went on your site, really good. I think the problem is with the way
Powerpoint codes the html. Repeated the same thing but created the webpage
in Dreamweaver and not power point and it now plays on all machines
irrelevant of the os. This one got me beat, so if you are using this method
do your html page not in powerpoint.

Cheers

Ramin

Thanks for this information, Ramin.

I was thinking that maybe when you linked to the PDFs, the HTML link was
still pointing to PDFs on your harddrive or something. But since it seems to
work fine usually, then I'm sure that's not the problem!

This works fine usually but on some machines with xp when the link is
pressed nothing happens. I wonder if this has to do with the way the html
page is cunstructed and may be I should save the page in html for ie and
netscape. I'm not an expert in html and
wanted some help as to find out how Powerpoint saves things as a web page
and in doing so is this not compatible with certain browsers.

Can you look at the HTML source and see what the link is?

I think it's interesting that it's Windows XP machines (? I assume that's
the XP you're talking about) that are giving you the problems. Wonder if it
could have something to do with SP-2 security settings? Or maybe the XP
machines don't have Adobe Reader installed? Or it's something to do with the
default browser version.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi,
The first link to, say a pdf document or any other programme is done in a
powerpoint slide but instead of saving it as a pps or ppt I save it as

a
web

page,
'complete presentation' and browser support Microsoft Internet

Explorer
4.0

or higher.
This saves the presentation with the links as an html page which does not
bring the dreaded virus warning. From my main presentation I can now create
buttons and hypelink them to file, in this case an html page in the same
directory. When the
hypelink button is pressed in the main presentation it opens the html page
in Internet explorer in a new window and now any of the pdfs or other linked
files can be launched without the warning. When the ie explorer window is
closed it goes back to the same presentation which remains in the background.
This also works really well if you are using Impatica as in when the
presentaions are Impatised it seemes seamless in iintenet explorer and no
virus warning

This works fine usually but on some machines with xp when the link is
pressed nothing happens. I wonder if this has to do with the way the html
page is cunstructed and may be I should save the page in html for ie and
netscape. I'm not an expert in html and
wanted some help as to find out how Powerpoint saves things as a web page
and in doing so is this not compatible with certain browsers.

Thanks for any help

Ramin

:

Nice workaround, Ramin.

How did you create the link to the HTML page? What is the link?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com


Hi,
I've done an interactive presentation that has links to pdf files.

This

was
done on ppt2000 and widows xp. To get around the annoying warning sign
'this
file may harm your computer' I have saved the link page as web

page
and

from
my pps presentation put a hyperlink to this page in the same folder
directory. So from the pps when this link is pressed it opens the html
page
in internet explorer with links to the pdf files. I then packaged

the
lot

through ppvieer 97 and burnt on Cd.

Problem-it works fine on some machines and on others it does not

bring
up

the html page. Any suggestions.

Many thanks

Ramin