PPS file changes to a PPT file when downloading for website

[MMagnus]

I have a PPS file I want people to download from my website, however when you
download it from the website it changes from a PPS to a PPT file.

Why is this happening and is there anyway to prevent it?

Thanks

 

[MMagnus]

Thanks for the quick reply.
I just got it to work by saving it as a show in PowerPoint 2007 (I have both
2007 and 97-2003 but prefer to work in 97-2003). When you save it as a show
in 2007 it greatly reducer the size of the file, and has a file extension of
PPSM instead of PPS. Anyway it works, thanks again.

 

[LVTravel]

Thanks for the quick reply.
I just got it to work by saving it as a show in PowerPoint 2007 (I have
both
2007 and 97-2003 but prefer to work in 97-2003). When you save it as a
show
in 2007 it greatly reducer the size of the file, and has a file extension
of
PPSM instead of PPS. Anyway it works, thanks again.

The issue you will have with the new way of saving it is that if the
receiver does not have PPT 2007 or PPT viewer 2007 or the compatibility pack
installed onto older versions of PPT the view will fail.

Since you saved this as a macro enabled show (do you really run macros in
the show?) that can also present issues if the person's computer is set to
not run macros because of security issues.

 

[Matti Vuori]

I have a PPS file I want people to download from my website, however
when you download it from the website it changes from a PPS to a PPT
file.

Why is this happening and is there anyway to prevent it?

Most likely this is due to a misconfigured web site (bad MIME type for .pps
files) and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The former can be fixed with a
..xtaccess file on the server (on most web servers) or similar means that
tell the system what kind of a file a .pps file is. You definitely should
not have to resort to zipping the file.

 

[Echo S]

Most likely this is due to a misconfigured web site (bad MIME type for
.pps
files) and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The former can be fixed with a
.xtaccess file on the server (on most web servers) or similar means that
tell the system what kind of a file a .pps file is. You definitely should
not have to resort to zipping the file.

Right. But it's hard to tell from the description what's actually happening.
Sometimes it's that IE is opening the file instead of PowerPoint, etc.
Zipping the file takes care of that as well as the MIME-type issue.