From: Chris Beaumont (cbeaumon@msri.org)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 12:24:14 PST
A company calld CodeWeavers makes a Netscape-compatible plug-in for
Linux that allows one to run Windows plug-ins on Linux (it uses the WINE
execution environment)
It's very good and it only costs $25
Using it you can use the Microsoft PowerPoint viewer 9and Quicktime,
current Flash, etc..) on Linux..
I have it and it's quite good..
http://www.codeweavers.com/home/
-Chris Beaumont
> At 8:25 -0800 2003-02-11, Graham A. Patterson wrote:
> >There are free download viewers for most Microsoft Office applications.
> >The PowerPoint one is at
> >http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/default.aspx?Product=PowerPoint&Version=95|97|98|2000|2002&Type=Converter|Viewer
> >
> >As far as I'm aware this only helps Windows users.
>
> Microsoft also makes a free PowerPoint viewer available for the Mac OS:
>
> "Microsoft PowerPoint 98 Viewer
> http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/office98/powerpoint98viewer.asp
>
> Of course, visitors using platforms other than Windows or the Mac
> OS would not be able to use these viewers. A small fraction of
> Linx/Unix users and users of mobile devices, such as PDAs and
> Web-enabled mobile phones, might be running Windows emulation
> software, viewer software (Documents To Go), or alternative office
> productivity software (OpenOffice) that would allow them to view
> PowerPoint presentations, but most probably will not.
>
> Downloading free viewer software also requires time and effort on
> the part of your Windows- and Mac OS-using visitors, and software
> installations don't always go smoothly. Also, there is always the
> question of whether viewer software can successfully display all of
> your presentations.
>
> To summarize and reiterate previous messages in this useful thread:
> To help make PowerPoint presentations available to a wider audience,
> you might consider:
>
> - Creating alternate views of PowerPoint presentations in HTML
> (checking to make sure they work with non-IE browsers -- there
> may be some export options to tweak), PDF, Macromedia Flash, or
> some other widely accessible format;
>
> - Providing links to free PowerPoint viewers. (One possibility is
> to offer such links on a "viewing resources" page on your Web site,
> linked from each of the places where you offer PowerPoint
> presentations for downloading.)
>
> Aron
>
> P.S. For a recent discussion about accessibility of Flash
> presentations to your site's visitors, see the November 2002 Webnet
> thread beginning at
> <http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/webnet/2002/0307.html>. (This may also
> be a partial response to Lucas's query ...)
>
>
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