PP viewer doesn't show linked graphics to http:// address

[Guest]

I would like to somewhat protect the images from my presentations to by
inserting them into the presentation as linked images with an absolute
http:// address. I do not use FTP to link the images; I just type the whole
address in.

This seems to work when I open the presentation from PowerPoint authoring
program itself: when my internet connection is on, the presentation opens
with the graphics, and when it is off the presentation opens, but only with
place-holder boxes where the images should be. However, when I open the
presentations in the PowerPoint viewer, the viewer doesn't find the images.

I have several clients that don't have PowerPoint, but the PowerPoint viewer
seems to be useless to them as an alternative.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I would like to somewhat protect the images from my presentations to by
inserting them into the presentation as linked images with an absolute
http:// address. I do not use FTP to link the images; I just type the whole
address in.

This seems to work when I open the presentation from PowerPoint authoring
program itself: when my internet connection is on, the presentation opens
with the graphics, and when it is off the presentation opens, but only with
place-holder boxes where the images should be. However, when I open the
presentations in the PowerPoint viewer, the viewer doesn't find the images.

I have several clients that don't have PowerPoint, but the PowerPoint viewer
seems to be useless to them as an alternative.

Any ideas?

If you know your users will view the presentation in PPT 2002 or later, or in
Viewer 2003, you could save your presentation as protected against modification