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.. title: OpenLP and PowerPoint viewer
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.. slug: 2010/02/17/openlp-and-powerpoint-viewer
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.. date: 2010-02-16 22:02:24 UTC
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.. description:
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Raoul posted a screenshot of OpenLP 2.0 and OpenOffice Impress a few
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days ago, and for an open source application, this is a great pairing.
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In addition I've also been working on getting PowerPoint Viewer support
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working in Windows...
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"Why?" You may ask. Well there are times when a visiting preacher pops
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in 5 minutes before the service with his PowerPoint created
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presentation, and you find that he's using
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LatestWhizzyUnnecessaryFeature(tm) which just doesn't format correctly
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in Impress and you don't have time to fix it. Since PowerPoint costs
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money better spent elsewhere, and native PowerPoint viewer doesn't
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support dual screen, this hasn't left many options.
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So I spent some time trying to automate PowerPoint viewer. This will
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only work on Windows of course, and since the viewer isn't designed to
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be automated, it may have the occassional quirk. However I have managed
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to get basic support working in 2.0 as you probably can't see too well
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in the small low quality screenshot above!
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**Also a useful tip for Windows 7 dual screen users.** Sometimes you may
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want to display something on the projector which OpenLP doesn't yet
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support, maybe a webpage. However dragging it across the screen in full
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view of the congregation isn't very professional and is a bit hit and
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miss. I've discovered that Windows 7 has a new key combination to assist
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with this. If you press the Windows key, the shift key and the right
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cursor key all at the same time, this will move the current window to
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the other screen/projector. If you then press Windows key and up arrow,
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this will maximise the window... although some apps also support "F11"
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for fullscreen.
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