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2009, December 02 (Wed)

Linux wine PPTVIEW (PowerPoint Viewer)

wine c:/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office12/PPTVIEW.EXE
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0

I’m not sure maybe it is something particular to my wine install, but the PowerPoint Viewer refuses to start. I finally found out that this is caused by the environment variable LANG being set to something other than en_US.UTF-8, so the fix…

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 wine c:/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office12/PPTVIEW.EXE 

Unfortunately, even with the powerpoint viewer I haven’t been able to view this presentation, which made me try this approach at all. It crashes at roughly the same position that OpenOffice.org goes into 100% CPU during import, oh well…

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