Using PowerPoint Viewer 2010
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:36 am
Reported to me from a user of SongBeamer:
"Subject: Using PowerPoint Viewer 2010.
Although it was never intended to use PPT Viewer 2010, up to SB version 4.30d worked fine with it. We needed to use PPTV 2010 because some features in PPTX files are not handled correctly with PPTV 2007 which was the recommended version. All SB versions after 4.30d do not bring up the thumbnails, and in fact PPTV 2010 shows errors. Even beta versions of SB which are meant to cope with PPTV 2010 still fail. With some versions, PPTV 2010 will come up as a separate window, but it doesn't provide an option to show on the second screen.
Each time an update to SongBeamer comes out I try it (up to 4.35a), but so far no luck."
"A P.S. to the previous email. The latest version of SongBeamer is 4.35, not 4.35a as in the notes. Also using PowerPoint rather than the PPTViewer does work but has a couple of unwanted side effects, like leaving the last picture on the screen when you select the next song or PowerPoint. Also it occasionally hangs onto the second screen (doesn't close) and you have to select PowerPoint and hit esc. to cancel it. With the PPTV it reliably blanks the screen when you move on to the next item in the schedule."
Thanks.
"Subject: Using PowerPoint Viewer 2010.
Although it was never intended to use PPT Viewer 2010, up to SB version 4.30d worked fine with it. We needed to use PPTV 2010 because some features in PPTX files are not handled correctly with PPTV 2007 which was the recommended version. All SB versions after 4.30d do not bring up the thumbnails, and in fact PPTV 2010 shows errors. Even beta versions of SB which are meant to cope with PPTV 2010 still fail. With some versions, PPTV 2010 will come up as a separate window, but it doesn't provide an option to show on the second screen.
Each time an update to SongBeamer comes out I try it (up to 4.35a), but so far no luck."
"A P.S. to the previous email. The latest version of SongBeamer is 4.35, not 4.35a as in the notes. Also using PowerPoint rather than the PPTViewer does work but has a couple of unwanted side effects, like leaving the last picture on the screen when you select the next song or PowerPoint. Also it occasionally hangs onto the second screen (doesn't close) and you have to select PowerPoint and hit esc. to cancel it. With the PPTV it reliably blanks the screen when you move on to the next item in the schedule."
Thanks.