Sceensaver Possibilities

[Patricia]

Can Anyone tell me if Powerpoint 3 has the ability to save a slide show
with music for a windows screen saver?




thank you
PB

 

[Austin Myers]

No, sorry.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

 

[villem teder]

I don't think I've tried PPT3 itself, but the PPT3 viewer runs under
WIN98SE. On some machines there might be significant delays between
pushing a key and advancing to the next slide. We have one machine
that does work okay and we still use the PPT3 viewer sometimes! Trying
the PPT3viewer under WIN2K resulted in very long delays for the next
slide. I can't remember now if we were able to run it at all under
WINXP.

Villem Teder

 

[villem teder]

Interesting. I don't know where I'd even *find* the old viewer at this point.
I'm sure the floppies are long gone.

You'd have to get a copy from somebody who still has one. MS used have
it available, but it disappeared when they stopped supporting software
from that era.

Out of curiosity, is there a reason why it's still useful?

It's main use is in the fade-through-black transition, for doing opera
surtitles. It had the feature of having a real difference between the
various speeds, with the slow being a real slow, compared to the
barely noticeable differences with more current versions. I know that
with XP and newer, there is the option of the custom animations, but
these require much more work to have one slide transition to the next
with only one key press, compared to applying a transition effect.
It is only within the last few months that I have seen the
fade-through-black transition actually work smoothly under PPT2003,
the main difference appearing to be CPU horsepower.
Also, the look of the fades don't look "linear" anymore, compared to
with the PPT3 viewer. If the video card software has gamma correction,
then this could be adjusted.
There are a few custom written systems for surtitles that I'm in the
process of looking at, but after using PPT for 10 years, it might take
a little while to get used to them.

And also, I don't think that PPT3 would run under WIN98SE, as PPT4
won't run without problems. To use the PPT3 viewer, I save the current
file from PPT2K as a PPT4 version, and then use PPT4 on WIN3.1
computer to convert it to PPT3 for the viewer. More work but the
results are worth it.

Villem Teder

 

[villem teder]

Thanks for filling in the blanks, Villem.

Who'd have thought there'd still be a use for a piece of software this old?
Fascinating!

"This software" is barely middle-aged. For "old software" how about
the stuff that NASA is still using for some of the probes, or how
about that stuff that is still being used to keep aircraft from
playing bumper cars in the sky?

I still have use for an audio analyzer system that runs on a
'386SX/co-pro upgrade stuffed into the case of a '286 laptop. Needs a
full length ISA slot and a maximum bus speed of 8 Mhz.

And speaking of the PPT3 viewer, there is one more beef I've forgotten
about.....using the "B" key to take the screen to black, and then
continuing. In PPT3, after taking the screen black with the "B" key,
if you press a key to continue to the next slide, or press a slide
number to jump to, followed by "enter", you go to the next slide with
whatever transition has been programmed. However, starting with I
think version 95 or possibly 97, if you press a key to continue or
select a slide to jump to, the slide you took to black comes back to
the screen and only then do you go on to the next slide you wanted.
Furthermore, as I understand in PPTXP, after the screen is taken to
black, you have to pressfor the next slide to get the previous slide
back on screen and then you have to press again to acyually go on to
the next slide!. I haven't had a chance to see what "improvements"
have been foisted on PPT2003.

(And, yes, I'm sure I've voiced my opinions on these topics to MSWISH
at least once.)

Villem Teder

while we are getting away from the topic of screensavers, is there a
society for creative computing anachronism?

 

[Patricia]

DANG......I meant POWERPOINT 2003>>>>>>>I was just having a brain fart
at the time....
Sorry Steve....

 

[villem teder]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:06:45 EDT, Steve Rindsberg

snip.....

Can I interest you in a box or two full of SCSI stuff? I've got Jaz, ZIP, DAT and an
HDD and I think there's an ISA adaptec card in there too. It's all just looking for a
good home. Price is right, too: I package it up for free and put it on the porch for
your pickup guy to grab and deliver to you. ;-)

See your stuff (actually, most of its already on the shelf in the
museum, I mean the other room), and raise you a 20M floptical drive,
and several dozen discs! Oh and a scanner!

Also, having recently saved 3 SAVs and a DoveD from a life as
landfill, I'm in the process of tracking down a Genesis or two.

snip....


Villem

 

[Kathy J]

Gee - sounds like you two need to visit the computer museum in Mountain View
It was well worth the trip

Bruce looked at a KPro II this morning, but the guys who have it decided to
sell it on EBay instead of direct. Means he won't be able to afford it. Too
bad....
--
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[villem teder]

Oh dear. You must be almost as old as me. I'm SO sorry.

Aw, I just turned only 49 (for the first time).

It hasn't been so much time since I tossed out my ShowPro III and gave away all the Arion
stuff to a bunch of artists. I'm not sure what they wanted it for and was afraid to ask.

Well, in theatre, slide projection is still used occasionally. One of
the latest crazes, at least at first in concert lighting is "digital
lights". These are basically small, bright video projectors mounted on
moveable yokes, controllable from the lighting console. And there is
an array of associated video server systems to create and control the
content for these lights.

Anyway, this is getting really off the topic of screensavers....

Villem