ppt viewer problem

[Victor and TJ Friedmann]

I am using lulu.com to self publish a ppt presentation. The ppt presentation
has been "packaged for CD" and has all the files automatically generated by
ppt for a portable presentation using ppt viewer.

Here is my problem. The publisher creates an ISO image file of all my files
and then proceeds to create my CD. One of the restrictions of ISO is that
all file names be 8 characters or less. All my files conform to this
standard.

BUT some of the files generated by ppt, such as, pptview.exe.manifest and
microsoft.vc80.crt.manifest, do not conform to this standard. As a result
the ISO generating program automatically renamed these files to something
shorter.

The result is that, not only does the disc not auto start, pptviewer fails
because it cannot find some of the ppt files under the expected names.

Does anyone have a way out of this problem?

Thanks,

Vic

 

[Jaime]

Sounds more like a question you should ask lulu.com.

The 11 character (8.3) filename is only a restriction on Level 1 ISO
standards, not all ISO image files (some allow close to 200 characters). The
bigger problem is that none of the standards are supposed to have more than
one "." character.

Do they not have a way to burn the CD directly (rather than create the ISO,
then burn from that)?

 

[Victor and TJ Friedmann]

Thank you for your reply. It is imposible to talk to lulu as the only
support they have is a forum. You are right the single "." is another
restriction. A[[arently lulu generates the ISO file and there is no other
way. I am still looking for a way out.

Vic

 

[Victor and TJ Friedmann]

Steve,

I like your second idea, autorun running a bat file to rename the
noncoformant files. Can you tell me how to write the autorun and bat files
to rename two files? Thanks a lot.

Vic

 

[verizon news groups]

Steve,

Thank you so much for the information. Do I understand correctly to place
the information in the current autorun file into the new bat file.

Presently the autorun contains:


[autorun]
open=PPTVIEW.EXE /L "playlist.txt"

Should I place this info into the bat bile and also retain the autorun?

Thanks,

Vic

 

[verizon news groups]

Yes, the same occurred to me after I replied. Too bad!

Vic

 

[verizon news groups]

Yes, the same occurred to me after I replied. Too bad!

Vic