[Dropped] Convert PPTX to PDF, headless operation

[st22]

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?

[Hagar Delest]

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?

[st22]

Yea it have other parts of workflow generating a pptx.

Checked on a few files, same issue.

[RoryOF]

Try instead setting up a PDF pseudo printer and printing to that to generate a PDF file.

[Hagar Delest]

Checked on a few files, same issue.

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.

[ms777]

does the export work if you open the pptx in AO and then export through the UI? With acceptable quality?

[Bidouille]

Yea it have other parts of workflow generating a pptx.

What kind of workflow?
Do you know PDFBox project?