Frank Ellermann wrote: > > On 15 November 2011 19:28, Martin Rex <mrex@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > And where is the download URL for an officially *FREE* license > > of Microsoft Windows that is a prerequisite for this player? > > http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11575 > > "Free" as in "120 days" and "you can install a PPT viewer" and > you need "a player" for their "virtual hard disk" image format. You mean free as in Expires: This image will shutdown and become completely unusable on November 17, 2011. This is for the 366 MB Windows XP image, the others are completely out of question due to their size. Btw. the Vista and Win7 image are more like 60 days rather than 120 days: Note: You may be required to activate the OS as the product key has been deactivated. [...] You can activate up to two rearms (type slmgr rearm at the command prompt) which will extend the trial for another 30 days. If downloading and running several hundred megabytes is considered an option, then you will be *MUCH* better of with a Linux Live-CD like Knoppix 6.7.0 at 700MByte for the CD, which includes LibreOffice 3.3.3 that seems capable of opening PPTX. But still, that is a lot of work that needs a lot of space, and while this may work on an x86 or x64 PC or sufficiently powerful notebook, it may work between hardly to not-at-all for much more constrained gadgets (tablets) because of cpu type, hdd/sdd/flash capacity and main memory size. > > While I hate "anything pdf" I fear that this solution only to > "play" PPT(X) would be *much* worse. No, it would be *MUCH* better. If you want movies, upload them to youtube. Using PDFs for the datatracker is *MUCH* better (and it is much more likely that it can still be looked at in 15 years, whereas support for any particular PPT-Format seems to be less than 10 years.) > > Untested simpler idea: > > If you accept to get a Google docs account all these horrible > document formats could be stored as Google docs in the cloud > and shared with everybody using a "compatible browser" (as > temporarily defined by Google, not necessarily IE6/7 or FF3). If anything, then the datatracker should automatically convert any uploaded PPT to PDF itself. And those that do not like the particular conversion performed by datatracker would be free to perform their prefererred conversion to PDF prior to uploading. -Martin _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf