FreeOffice Command Line Options?

Obsolesce

What are the command line options for opening a presentation?

For example, with LibreOffice, I would simply type the following, which automatically opens the presentation in "show" mode:

soffice --show --invisible --norestore /home/user/Desktop/presentation.pptx

How can I do this in FreeOffice?

The reason I want to do this in FreeOffice Presentations is because Libre/Open Office do not load the PowerPoint settings correctly, but FreeOffice does!

black3dynamite

No manpages?

Obsolesce

@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.

manxam

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).

Obsolesce

@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 Their documentation is outdated (or for a different version), as that states typing presentations18 runs a script that starts the program.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.

Obsolesce

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

I'll look it over.

Obsolesce

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.

Obsolesce

Wtf kind of company makes software without any CLI capabilities?

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.

Obsolesce

@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?

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.

black3dynamite

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

Obsolesce

@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.

black3dynamite

@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.

dbeato

@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

black3dynamite

@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

dbeato

@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.

Obsolesce

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?

TonyKnobel

@obsolesce That worked for me

Obsolesce

@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!