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Using Presenter on a Mac with Parallels
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Mar 06, 2009
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I am a Mac user, but stuck using a PC at work. My PC has
continual problems that my Mac would never have, but I was told
there wasn't a Mac version of Adobe presenter, so I'm stuck. If I
run a parallel windows XP desktop on my mac, can't I install
presenter in my Powerpoint in there?
Will that cause problems? Is there any functionality I will lose if I do this? Its still windows XP software so it should work seamlessly, right?
Will that cause problems? Is there any functionality I will lose if I do this? Its still windows XP software so it should work seamlessly, right?
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I use Parallels to run a virtual machine with Windows XP, and Presenter works just fine. You obviously just need a copy of Parallels, and a license for Windows and Office as well as Presenter itself.
One thing: Presenter doesn't like to work with PowerPoint files that exist on my Mac (using the Parallels folder sharing feature). Something about the UNC paths that cause problems. So I put the PowerPoint file and any related audio/video media on the virtual machine C: drive and that makes Presenter happy. I've seen some posts where people say the UNC path issue (which would also affect people using files on a network) is a known problem.
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