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PowerPoint Viewer component

  • Artigo

Requests come in periodically to componentize MS Office. Honestly, on a lark I worked on trying to componentize office years ago and decided that the level of frustration wasn't worth the effort, especially since it defeats the purpose of the "fixed function" embedded device. However, the scenario of a thin client viewing Office documents is valid, so there have been requests to componentize the office viewers like PowerPoint Viewer 2003 here. As the overview there states:

PowerPoint Viewer 2003 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions. This viewer also supports opening password-protected Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. You can view and print presentations, but you cannot edit them in the PowerPoint Viewer 2003.

So anyway, I had a spare hour the other week and the straw that broke the camels back came to my inbox asking if this viewer had been componentized so I broke down and did it, though it hasn't been tested extensively, I'm looking for feedback here if there's a problem. Today I see there was another thread about this in the newsgroup as well.

PowerPoint Viewer 2003 component can be downloaded here.

As with the other programs componentized and posted here, I'm giving you the list of file resources in the repository that *you* need to collect after downloading and installing the product on your development machine one time. These are the files you need to pluck off the dev machine and place in the "rep" folder expanded out of the zip below. This also ensures that you have to accept the EULA on the web page linked above. Below is the list of files you'll need to collect from the product for your repository.

Directory of Z:\ppviewer\Package\rep
08/24/2005 08:06 PM <DIR> .
08/24/2005 08:06 PM <DIR> ..
02/28/2004 12:16 PM 1,773,568 GDIPLUS.DLL
07/14/2003 09:57 PM 64,064 INTLDATE.DLL
09/08/2003 09:20 AM 1,782,840 PPTVIEW.EXE
11/11/2004 07:00 PM 128,712 PPVWINTL.DLL
07/25/2003 11:32 AM 4,189 PVREADME.HTM
07/14/2003 09:57 PM 211,512 SAEXT.DLL
10/30/2002 11:21 AM 246,424 UNICOWS.DLL
7 File(s) 4,211,309 bytes

- Andy

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