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    • black3dynamiteB
      black3dynamite
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      No manpages?

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      • ObsolesceO
        Obsolesce @black3dynamite
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        @black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

        No manpages?

        I couldn't find anything except the built-in GUI help file, which was useless for my case.

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          manxam
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          Does something like TextMaker (or Presentations) /? or --help not show any command line options?
          No manpages as per @black3dynamite (assuming linux : "man textmaker")

          EDIT: according to the docs, there are shell script wrappers offered. Perhaps checking the contents of one of them may be helpful?

          Alternatively, the following shell scripts are available for launching the programs:
          textmaker16 launches TextMaker
          planmaker16 launches PlanMaker
          presentations16 launches Presentations
          To start an application, execute the corresponding script (e.g. in a shell).
          
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          • ObsolesceO
            Obsolesce @manxam
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            @manxam said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

            Does something like TextMaker (or Presentations) /? or --help not show any command line options?
            No manpages as per @black3dynamite (assuming linux : "man textmaker")

            Nope, there's absolutely nothing command-line.

            The only thing that works is presentations18free, which starts up the program. Their documentation is outdated (or for a different version), as that states typing presentations18 runs a script that starts the program.

            If I knew where to find that script, I could possibly look at it to see how the script is starting the program.

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            • ObsolesceO
              Obsolesce
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              I used thefind command, it shows in /usr/bin/presentations18free

              I'll look it over.

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              • ObsolesceO
                Obsolesce
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                Okay so all it does is runs the program.

                /usr/bin/presentations18free

                #!/bin/bash
                # A script to run Presentations.
                ext="${@##*.}"
                shopt -s nocasematch
                case "$ext" in
                	"prs" ) /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations -S\""$@"\";;
                	"pps" ) /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations -S\""$@"\";;
                	"ppsx" ) /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations -S\""$@"\";;
                	* ) /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations "$@";;
                esac
                

                If I type the following, it opens up the presentation in EDIT mode:
                /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations /home/user/Desktop/presentation.pptx

                Typing man /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations does nothing, saying no man page.

                Typing /usr/share/freeoffice2018/presentations /home/user/Desktop/presentation.pptx --help, or with any switches, switches are ignored.

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                • ObsolesceO
                  Obsolesce
                  last edited by Obsolesce

                  Wtf kind of company makes software without any CLI capabilities?

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                    1337 @Obsolesce
                    last edited by 1337

                    @obsolesce Change the file extension to .ppsx

                    Or do what sane people do, convert powerpoint presentations to pdf and run them like that in full screen. It's better, faster and more portable. Just have to remove ridiculous bullet point animations and similar nonsense that shouldn't be used in the first place.

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                      Obsolesce @1337
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                      @pete-s said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                      @obsolesce Change the file extension to .ppsx

                      Or do what sane people do, convert powerpoint presentations to pdf and run them like that in full screen. It's better, faster and more portable. Just have to remove ridiculous bullet point animations and similar nonsense that shouldn't be used in the first place.

                      I don't touch the powerpoint presentation at all, and I do not want to. Other people compile them in MS Powerpoint, all I do is automate the process of copying the file from the location they store it in, to the numerous "signs" to always have displaying the presentation.

                      It was working great with everything running Windows and everyone and all signs using MS PowerPoint.

                      Now, the Win10 home "intel sticks" for ALL of the signs no long do the automatic login to automatically run the presentations.

                      So i thought it was time to go to linux on those, becasue the whole thing is way easier and more reliable.

                      Now the problem is that LibreOffice, OpenOffice, FreeOffice, etc. either do not load the PowerPoint presentation 100%, or no CLI to automate things.

                      The only other option is to upgrade all the Intel Sticks to Win10 PRO if I can't get FreeOffice to automate, or can't get LibreOffice to load the PPTX file 100%.

                      What does changing the file extension to .ppsx do? Would that get the slide transition timers to load correctly?

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                        1337 @Obsolesce
                        last edited by 1337

                        @obsolesce

                        PPSX Versus PPTX

                        When a user double-clicks a PPTX file, PowerPoint opens in edit mode and allows the user to edit the slideshow. When a user double-clicks a PPSX file, he only sees a slide show. PowerPoint does not display its user interface. PPTX and PPSX files are similar enough, that you can swap the letters "T" an "S" in their file names and they will work.

                        Assuming FreeOffice is compatible with Powerpoint is should work the same.

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                        • black3dynamiteB
                          black3dynamite
                          last edited by

                          Have you already tried WPS Office?
                          https://www.wps.com

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                          • ObsolesceO
                            Obsolesce @black3dynamite
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                            @black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                            Have you already tried WPS Office?
                            https://www.wps.com

                            I have not. Does it have CLI capabilities?

                            Maybe I'll give it a try next week when I get back.

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                            • black3dynamiteB
                              black3dynamite @Obsolesce
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                              @obsolesce said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                              @black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                              Have you already tried WPS Office?
                              https://www.wps.com

                              I have not. Does it have CLI capabilities?

                              Maybe I'll give it a try next week when I get back.

                              Tried it on Deepin and it doesn't have cli options too.

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                                dbeato @black3dynamite
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                                @black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                @obsolesce said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                @black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                Have you already tried WPS Office?
                                https://www.wps.com

                                I have not. Does it have CLI capabilities?

                                Maybe I'll give it a try next week when I get back.

                                Tried it on Deepin and it doesn't have cli options too.

                                WPS Cli are the following:

                                wps- for Writer
                                wpp-for Presentation
                                et-for Spreadsheet

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                                • black3dynamiteB
                                  black3dynamite @dbeato
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                                  @dbeato said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                  @black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                  @obsolesce said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                  @black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                  Have you already tried WPS Office?
                                  https://www.wps.com

                                  I have not. Does it have CLI capabilities?

                                  Maybe I'll give it a try next week when I get back.

                                  Tried it on Deepin and it doesn't have cli options too.

                                  WPS Cli are the following:

                                  wps- for Writer
                                  wpp-for Presentation
                                  et-for Spreadsheet

                                  But there are no others options like what LibreOffice provides.
                                  soffice --show --invisible --norestore /home/user/Desktop/presentation.pptx

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                                    dbeato @black3dynamite
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                                    @black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                    @dbeato said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                    @black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                    @obsolesce said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                    @black3dynamite said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                    Have you already tried WPS Office?
                                    https://www.wps.com

                                    I have not. Does it have CLI capabilities?

                                    Maybe I'll give it a try next week when I get back.

                                    Tried it on Deepin and it doesn't have cli options too.

                                    WPS Cli are the following:

                                    wps- for Writer
                                    wpp-for Presentation
                                    et-for Spreadsheet

                                    But there are no others options like what LibreOffice provides.
                                    soffice --show --invisible --norestore /home/user/Desktop/presentation.pptx

                                    Probably not.

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                                    • ObsolesceO
                                      Obsolesce
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                                      Their support told me to try this:
                                      presentations18free -sFILENAME.pptx

                                      But I won't be able to for a couple days. Can anyone confirm if it will work? Sticking a -s in front of the file name?

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                                      • TonyKnobelT
                                        TonyKnobel @Obsolesce
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                                        @obsolesce That worked for me

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                                          Obsolesce @TonyKnobel
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                                          @tonyknobel said in FreeOffice Command Line Options?:

                                          @obsolesce That worked for me

                                          Awesome I'll see how it plays out in my scenario when I get back. Good to know, thanks!

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                                          • ObsolesceO
                                            Obsolesce
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                                            I tried it today...

                                            It tries to do something, but crashes without error.

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