Unsolved FreeOffice Command Line Options?
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Okay so all it does is runs the program.
/usr/bin/presentations18free
#!/bin/bash # A script to run Presentations. ext="${@##*.}" shopt -s nocasematch case "$ext" in "prs" ) /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations -S\""$@"\";; "pps" ) /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations -S\""$@"\";; "ppsx" ) /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations -S\""$@"\";; * ) /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations "$@";; esacIf I type the following, it opens up the presentation in EDIT mode:
/usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations /home/user/Desktop/presentation.pptxTyping
man /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentationsdoes nothing, saying no man page.Typing
/usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations /home/user/Desktop/presentation.pptx --help, or with any switches, switches are ignored. -
Wtf kind of company makes software without any CLI capabilities?
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@obsolesce Change the file extension to .ppsx
Or do what sane people do, convert powerpoint presentations to pdf and run them like that in full screen. It's better, faster and more portable. Just have to remove ridiculous bullet point animations and similar nonsense that shouldn't be used in the first place.
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@pete-s said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@obsolesce Change the file extension to .ppsx
Or do what sane people do, convert powerpoint presentations to pdf and run them like that in full screen. It's better, faster and more portable. Just have to remove ridiculous bullet point animations and similar nonsense that shouldn't be used in the first place.
I don't touch the powerpoint presentation at all, and I do not want to. Other people compile them in MS Powerpoint, all I do is automate the process of copying the file from the location they store it in, to the numerous "signs" to always have displaying the presentation.
It was working great with everything running Windows and everyone and all signs using MS PowerPoint.
Now, the Win10 home "intel sticks" for ALL of the signs no long do the automatic login to automatically run the presentations.
So i thought it was time to go to linux on those, becasue the whole thing is way easier and more reliable.
Now the problem is that LibreOffice, OpenOffice, FreeOffice, etc. either do not load the PowerPoint presentation 100%, or no CLI to automate things.
The only other option is to upgrade all the Intel Sticks to Win10 PRO if I can't get FreeOffice to automate, or can't get LibreOffice to load the PPTX file 100%.
What does changing the file extension to .ppsx do? Would that get the slide transition timers to load correctly?
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PPSX Versus PPTX
When a user double-clicks a PPTX file, PowerPoint opens in edit mode and allows the user to edit the slideshow. When a user double-clicks a PPSX file, he only sees a slide show. PowerPoint does not display its user interface. PPTX and PPSX files are similar enough, that you can swap the letters "T" an "S" in their file names and they will work.
Assuming FreeOffice is compatible with Powerpoint is should work the same.
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Have you already tried WPS Office?
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@black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
Have you already tried WPS Office?
https://www.wps.comI have not. Does it have CLI capabilities?
Maybe I'll give it a try next week when I get back.
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@obsolesce said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
Have you already tried WPS Office?
https://www.wps.comI have not. Does it have CLI capabilities?
Maybe I'll give it a try next week when I get back.
Tried it on Deepin and it doesn't have cli options too.
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@black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@obsolesce said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
Have you already tried WPS Office?
https://www.wps.comI have not. Does it have CLI capabilities?
Maybe I'll give it a try next week when I get back.
Tried it on Deepin and it doesn't have cli options too.
WPS Cli are the following:
wps- for Writer
wpp-for Presentation
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@dbeato said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@obsolesce said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
Have you already tried WPS Office?
https://www.wps.comI have not. Does it have CLI capabilities?
Maybe I'll give it a try next week when I get back.
Tried it on Deepin and it doesn't have cli options too.
WPS Cli are the following:
wps- for Writer
wpp-for Presentation
et-for SpreadsheetBut there are no others options like what LibreOffice provides.
soffice --show --invisible --norestore /home/user/Desktop/presentation.pptx -
@black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@dbeato said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@obsolesce said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
Have you already tried WPS Office?
https://www.wps.comI have not. Does it have CLI capabilities?
Maybe I'll give it a try next week when I get back.
Tried it on Deepin and it doesn't have cli options too.
WPS Cli are the following:
wps- for Writer
wpp-for Presentation
et-for SpreadsheetBut there are no others options like what LibreOffice provides.
soffice --show --invisible --norestore /home/user/Desktop/presentation.pptxProbably not.
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Their support told me to try this:
presentations18free -sFILENAME.pptxBut I won't be able to for a couple days. Can anyone confirm if it will work? Sticking a
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@obsolesce That worked for me
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@tonyknobel said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:
@obsolesce That worked for me
Awesome I'll see how it plays out in my scenario when I get back. Good to know, thanks!
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I tried it today...
It tries to do something, but crashes without error.
