Making Viwer CD in non-standard way?

[Geoff Cox]

Hello,

I am trying to avoid having to make lots of changes to file names and
so would like to keep the same folder/file structure when making a
PowerPoint Viewer CD.

This is because I have quite a lot of files with the same name but
different contents and Package for CD puts all files in the same
place and so all files have to have a unique name.

Having made the CD by using Nero Express to copy the folder/file
structure to the CD and having added the required PowerPoint Viewer
this does seem to work. A random checking of links (ppt menu slides to
ppt files) finds no problems.

But! Can anyone see any problems which this approach might cause?
Problems not yet visible to me!

Thanks

Geoff

 

[Geoff Cox]

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:58:44 +0100, Geoff Cox

Viwer in title - I do hate doing this!

Geoff

 

[Gus Collot]

Geoff, my usual advice on this is not to depend on "do-it-all" software, but
rather understand the components of an autorun CD to make it work, this way
you do what you want to do with your show and don't let the software be the
one to tell you what to do.

1. Place all the PPoint viewer related files in one folder (call it
software) and all the presentation related files in another folder (call it
mypres ).

2. Open notepad and write this :

[AutoRun]
OPEN=software/ppviewer.exe mypres/mypres.pps

3. Save this file as autorun.inf

4. Burn the 2 folders to your CD plus autorun.inf...the 2 folders and this
file go in your CD's root directory.

For your understanding, autorun.inf tells the system what files to run and
how to locate them...is also important to precisely indicate the RELATIVE
location of files. The viewer files can be found in the installation folder
of the software, just copy all of them and place them in the "software"
folder just created ( make sure, once again, to write down the relative
location of ppviewer.exe ).

Any help, let me know.

Greetings,

Gus

 

[Geoff Cox]

Geoff, my usual advice on this is not to depend on "do-it-all" software, but
rather understand the components of an autorun CD to make it work, this way
you do what you want to do with your show and don't let the software be the
one to tell you what to do.

1. Place all the PPoint viewer related files in one folder (call it
software) and all the presentation related files in another folder (call it
mypres ).

2. Open notepad and write this :

[AutoRun]
OPEN=software/ppviewer.exe mypres/mypres.pps

3. Save this file as autorun.inf

4. Burn the 2 folders to your CD plus autorun.inf...the 2 folders and this
file go in your CD's root directory.

For your understanding, autorun.inf tells the system what files to run and
how to locate them...is also important to precisely indicate the RELATIVE
location of files. The viewer files can be found in the installation folder
of the software, just copy all of them and place them in the "software"
folder just created ( make sure, once again, to write down the relative
location of ppviewer.exe ).

Gus,

I follow what you say but just had the feeling that might be better to
allow PowerPoint to do the work using the Package for CD option, to
hopefully avoid any problems which I might not have thought of!

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Michael Koerner]

I use the Package for CD, copy to Folder option (Only need this once) After
that I just change the filenames as needed in the .lst and .bat file, and
replace the required presentation, sound/movie files

--

---
Regards
Michael Koerner
(MS PPT MVP)

Geoff, my usual advice on this is not to depend on "do-it-all" software,
but
rather understand the components of an autorun CD to make it work, this
way
you do what you want to do with your show and don't let the software be
the
one to tell you what to do.

1. Place all the PPoint viewer related files in one folder (call it
software) and all the presentation related files in another folder (call
it
mypres ).

2. Open notepad and write this :

[AutoRun]
OPEN=software/ppviewer.exe mypres/mypres.pps

3. Save this file as autorun.inf

4. Burn the 2 folders to your CD plus autorun.inf...the 2 folders and this
file go in your CD's root directory.

For your understanding, autorun.inf tells the system what files to run and
how to locate them...is also important to precisely indicate the RELATIVE
location of files. The viewer files can be found in the installation
folder
of the software, just copy all of them and place them in the "software"
folder just created ( make sure, once again, to write down the relative
location of ppviewer.exe ).

Gus,

I follow what you say but just had the feeling that might be better to
allow PowerPoint to do the work using the Package for CD option, to
hopefully avoid any problems which I might not have thought of!

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Geoff Cox]

I use the Package for CD, copy to Folder option (Only need this once) After
that I just change the filenames as needed in the .lst and .bat file, and
replace the required presentation, sound/movie files

Michael,

Yes but this puts all the files in the one folder - I am wondering how
safe it is to simply copy my folder/file structure onto the CD and
add the required PowerPoint Viewer files myself. Any hidden catches?!

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Michael Koerner]

As long as you copy all the appropriate files, I don't see any problem. I
like to use the KISS principal. I created a folder called "ToCD". I then ran
the package to CD, copy to folder option and had PowerPoint put all the
files in the "ToCD" folder. Now when I create a presentation for CD, I make
sure that all linked files are in the same folder before I enter them into
the presentation. Once the presentation is complete I copy all the files
into the "ToCD folder", change the file names in the batch file and play
list, then burn all the files to the CD
--

---
Regards
Michael Koerner
www.oldfco.ca/fconews/
www.oldfco.ca/reunion/2006/
www.oldfco.ca/fconews/hostel

 

[Geoff Cox]

As long as you copy all the appropriate files, I don't see any problem. I
like to use the KISS principal. I created a folder called "ToCD". I then ran
the package to CD, copy to folder option and had PowerPoint put all the
files in the "ToCD" folder. Now when I create a presentation for CD, I make
sure that all linked files are in the same folder before I enter them into
the presentation. Once the presentation is complete I copy all the files
into the "ToCD folder", change the file names in the batch file and play
list, then burn all the files to the CD

OK - thanks Michael.

Cheers

Geoff