pps on website

[Guest]

I've uploaded a pps to a website using the advised method, and all seemed to
work well.
On the web, however, when you click the link to the pps, a black screen is
the result...Any suggestions?

As always, thanks,

Graeme

 

[Guest]

Opening the pps without saving it to your harddisk first may cause several
problems. You may want to consider zipping up the pps using WinZip (
www.winzip.com ) or Windows XP built-in zip feature instead, before uploading
it to the web.
--
Shawn Toh (tohlz)
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP PowerPoint)

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[Steve Rindsberg]

I've uploaded a pps to a website using the advised method, and all seemed to
work well.
On the web, however, when you click the link to the pps, a black screen is
the result...Any suggestions?

How large is the PPS?

Remember that it has to download to your computer completely before it can play
back. Large files, slow connections or overloaded/slow servers ... any of
these can contribute to a long download time.

Click the link and wait a while. See if it eventually starts up.

 

[Guest]

The pps is 3.81mb. I tried zipping it, but, as it only went down to 3.47mb, I
didn't bother. It works fine when emailed, it's only the website that isn't
starting up.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The pps is 3.81mb. I tried zipping it, but, as it only went down to 3.47mb, I
didn't bother. It works fine when emailed, it's only the website that isn't
starting up.

Let me repeat:

Remember that it has to download to your computer completely before it can play
back. Large files, slow connections or overloaded/slow servers ... any of
these can contribute to a long download time.

Click the link and wait a while. See if it eventually starts up.

Did you try this?

Can you give us the URL where this is posted?

 

[Mitch Gallant]

Just to be a devils advocate, in a Microsoft group, .. sometimes ppt on the
web just isn't the right way to go ..
Fine if you already have a ppt presentation ..
but I have achieved very good results in the past by authoring originally as
Java applet (Sun JVM) .. which has great capability to have syncronized
images, audio, text etc.. and is of course fully programmable.
And, since you can digitally sign the applet .. you can hook into amazing
capability with the local client.

- Mitch Gallant
MVP Security
www.jensign.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Just to be a devils advocate, in a Microsoft group, .. sometimes ppt on the
web just isn't the right way to go ..
Fine if you already have a ppt presentation ..

And if it's not too huge.
And if it doesn't have links to external files.
And if you can assume that the person at the viewing end has PPT or the viewer
or is willing (and able and permitted) to download and install the latter.

Yeah. ;-)

but I have achieved very good results in the past by authoring originally as
Java applet (Sun JVM) .. which has great capability to have syncronized
images, audio, text etc.. and is of course fully programmable.
And, since you can digitally sign the applet .. you can hook into amazing
capability with the local client.

If the person at the viewing end has Java installed and enabled.

Pesky "if"s. Wish we could squish 'em all.

But a question, sir. How do you author something like a presentation as a Java
applet? Is there software that lets you edit in a PowerPoint-like environment
and export as an applet or ... ???

 

[Guest]

Steve, I've waited 20 minutes and still have the black screen. The url is
http://kingpoetry.com/inside you.htm. Thanks for all your help,
Graeme

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, I've waited 20 minutes and still have the black screen. The url is
http://kingpoetry.com/inside you.htm. Thanks for all your help,
Graeme

I'm a bit confused. Nothing new there. But we've been talking about a PPS, and
that's not what you've got on the site ... you've got HTML, mate. They have drugs for
that so no worries. ;-)

I suspect you're missing some of the files it needs. When you created the HTML (save
as Web Page) PPT would have created an HTM file by whatever name you chose AND a whold
folder full of other stuff. Both the HTM file and the folder, contents included, must
be uploaded or it's no go.

One other thing ... the sound file takes a good long while to download. And quite
possibly isn't legal to use in this way.