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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kpresenter - no pps ?
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-09-09 12:20:31
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Yes, the magic file consider all OLE files as MS Word, as we cannot check .doc 
as extension. (The extensions .doc can be really anything.)

All other formats OLE formats have to be defined by the extension. (That is 
why I asked you to test by renaming the file.)

So you can edit the file kdelibs/mimetypes/application/mspowerpoint.desktop 
(Be careful: it is in UTF-8.) In the line "Patterns" add "*.pps;*.PPS;" 
(without the quotes of course.)

Have a nice day!

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:56, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On Monday 01 September 2003 17:43, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > Please try to rename it with a .ppt extension and try it again in
> > KPresenter! But as this import filter has only one star (
> > http://ww.koffice.org/filters/1.2 ), I doubt that you will do much with
> > it.
> >
> > However I am not the maintainer of the filter, so if you do not like what
> > you get, please add a bug report in KDE Bugs: http://bugs.kde.org
>
> Sorry for answering so late. Had problems with kmail. ;-)
>
> Actually, this isn't a problem with kpresenter but a problem with file type
> recognition in KDE as a whole. While "file" reports a pps document as
> Microsoft Office Document (not very specific but correct), KDE recognises
> it as a Microsoft Word Document which is wrong. (Open konqueror as a file
> manager, hover the mouse pointer over a pps file and see what I mean.) Thus
> KDE tries to open the file with Kword which fails.
>
> If you force Kpresenter to open a pps file it still tries to find a Word
> filter for it. That fails as well, of course.
>
> It isn't exactly an Koffice issue but wrong file type recognition in KDE as
> a whole.
>
> Uwe

 
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