soffice --headless --convert-to pdf myfile.pptx --outdir mypdf/
this command opens the file myfile.pptx and does not convert anything to pdf; could you please suggest a working solution?
Convert PPTX to PDF, headless operation
Convert PPTX to PDF, headless operation
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Hagar Delest
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Re: Headless operation
Hi and welcome to the forum!
.pptx support is quite poor, do you really want to do that?
Have you checked the results on some files?
.pptx support is quite poor, do you really want to do that?
Have you checked the results on some files?
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Re: Headless operation
Yea it have other parts of workflow generating a pptx. 
Checked on a few files, same issue.
Checked on a few files, same issue.
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Re: Headless operation
Try instead setting up a PDF pseudo printer and printing to that to generate a PDF file.
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Hagar Delest
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Re: Headless operation
I mean: is the quality of the .pptx export in PDF with AOO good enough for you?
Because if the result is too bad, then there is no point. And you'll need something else.
LibreOffice might be better but still quite far from the PowerPoint rendering.
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