apt-get PowerPoint Viewer

RE: apt-get PowerPoint Viewer

e14 Contributor — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:30:53 GMT

LibreOffice is a fork of Openoffice. There are many reasons for the fork, but it's mainly due to the difficulty of getting new code into OpenOffice - Sun used it as the base for the commercial StarOffice - and as the whole thing is now owned by Oracle there were many more concerns over the future of OpenOffice.

Regardless, LibreOffice currently seems to be progressing more rapidly and appears to have more developer support. So it would seem to have more likelyhood of keeping up with changes in the microsoft file formats.

I will say that in my experience the support for pptx files isn't perfect. Various things don't work the same as in the real powerpoint application, fonts can be wrong etc. Where I work, they have this habit of embedding Outlook emails in powerpoint presentations and that really just doesn't work right in LibreOffice on linux as far as I can tell.

RE: apt-get PowerPoint Viewer

wallarug — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:08:59 GMT

apt-get install openoffice.org

That worked for me and the powerpoint progam (although very slow) works great.

Also, are LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org the same thing? I think the command above installed all the LibreOffice packages.

RE: apt-get PowerPoint Viewer

wallarug — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:03:53 GMT

libreoffice and openoffice.org seem to have been ported now.

I am currently installing openoffice.org and will report back later (after the 330mb of stuff is installed)

RE: apt-get PowerPoint Viewer

wallarug — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:05:34 GMT

Google Doc does not work for my purpose.

I need a ppt viewer becasue I have linked stuff to the file and it will be constantly changing.

RE: apt-get PowerPoint Viewer

e14 Contributor — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:16:39 GMT

Sorry, no other options that I'm aware of.

If you were using linux on an x86 pc you'd have options of either Wine or Crossover office and using the native windows viewer.

I haven't looked closely at Raspbian, but if there's a PDF viewer and your powerpoint doesn't use too too many fancy features then perhaps converting it to PDF would work ?

Or try google docs ?

RE: apt-get PowerPoint Viewer

wallarug — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:17:56 GMT

Openoffice does not work/ has not been ported to Raspbian. Other options please

RE: apt-get PowerPoint Viewer

e14 Contributor — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:17:39 GMT

openoffice should open powerpoint, but sometimes has problems with font sizes etc. What version of openoffice, and is it a ppt or a pptx file ?

try LibreOffice ?