PowerPoint Viewer - How to print from link ???

[bzss7x]

I've put together a nice presentation and packaged it to CD using powerpoint viewer to display it. I was ready to send it to clients when I tested it and found a major problem - I couldn't run macros from the hyperlinks. I used the macros to print slides.

So on to plan B - I reworked the hyperlinks to open pptview.exe and called a separate presentation (with only that slide in it) with the /P option to print it (pptview.exe /P presenation2.ppt). All of that was futile - the viewer won't call executables either.

So what's plan C? I don't know - I thought of trying to write an web page that would print a jpg file (that's what I want to print) and hyperlink to that. However, that seems extreme. Surely there's an easier way.

I simply want to click on a link and print a slide in powerpoint viewer. Any ideas?

 

[RamziSaab]

from what i read in google groups u cannot do it!!

No, command buttons will not be enabled
No, macros will not function


But, when using the viewer, you can print the screens (1 slide per page) by
right-clicking and select print from the menu that pops up.

 

[bzss7x]

I figured it out...

On the hyperlinks, point to a local bat file (.\local.bat) .

local.bat
@pptview.exe /S /P printpage.ppt

Make the page you want to print into its own presentation (printpage.ppt). I still get a warning about harmful files, but I can live with that.