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In the same dropbox folder I have uploaded another powerpoint file and that one opens with no problems. My guess is the size of the other one is the issue. Tip to dropbox - would be great if the error message could be more specific rather than just saying "something went wrong" eg. "we can't open this as the file is too large - max supported file powerpoint file size is xxxMB.
We have a Powerpoint presentation in Dropbox with a link to it on our site that our clients access when they want to give the presentation to an audience. But when they click the Dropbox link on our site, they see the error message ".pptx files are supported but something went wrong" and there is a Download box under that. So they can still download it, but is there any way to avoid them seeing the error message? I'm sure it scares some people away and does not look professional. The Powerpoint is password protected, but I'm not sure that is the reason for the error. Any ideas?
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What I really need to know is how to keep the file that has been uploaded to Dropbox safe so that it cannot be overwritten. We have had people make changes to the Powerpoint and somehow the file gets overwritten with their content. I'm not sure how this could happen.
I've successfully installed the 'python-pptx' module in my Alteryx workspace using a Python icon, however when I try to import it (and variations on the name) Alteryx responds that either there is no 'pptx' module or it doesn't like my use of hyphon or underscore to attach 'python' to the name.
Yes. LO supports reading and writing to MicroSoft Office Open XML (OOXML) file formats. The support is however not perfect and it is possible you may experience problems depending on what is required in terms of layout, formats, effects, embedded content, etc.
Before presenting live I suggest to open document on the same version of Microsoft PowerPoint that will be presented. To see if everything is presented OK. My experience is to have little trouble like font size and layout.
One maybe not the most elegant option is to convert presentation to PDF file, but in this case if you would like to have some fancy changing slides then this option is not the one you are looking for.
1 - Consider also to create a ppt-version. If MS format is needed I prefer ppt
2 - I recently needed to prepare a back up version for a Windows PC with requested format pptx or ppt. I decided to copy a portable version of LibO and a copy of my odp-presentation to an USB stick. Thus if there would have been a problem with my PC, I use the USB stick and present via the LibO portable version. Portable version 4.1.4.2 is already available. Maybe this is an alternative for you.
There can and there are.
Assume LibreOffice is working internally in german language (inherited from star-division). When you save in odf-file german language is used. If you save to pptx-files of Microsoft everything is translated to for example some Shakespeare-english and has to be translated back by another translator, when you open again in LibreOffice.
These transformations are not perfect, so you may add small changes to your product by every save and reload cycle.
I'm currently working on a way to generate Powerpoint presentation from Excel file. So, I decided to use Python as there is python-pptx which allows to work on .pptx files. I have to use a standard file on which I will add some shapes and texts but just whithin the first slide.
N.B : I'm French, on the web I didn't find a French documentation so I had to search English documentation. It's possible that I didn't understand something about my problem when I read it. Sorry, if you find it easily. I'm still working my English :D
When I choose save as PDF from Powerpoint, it publishes BUT, many of the images (created in powerpoint with clip art and shapes) are disappearing from the PDF. Some of my pptx files have converted without issue (using the combination of pptx & Acrobat 10.1.2) - however, if I go back in an make even a simple change (even to text) it will NOT convert to PDF accurately - once again images go missing and I get an error message.
I have tried repairing my Acrobat - that didn't change the results. I also tried going to an earlier version of Acrobat reader and that didn't work either. I even uninstalled and re-installed Acrobat, re-started my computer - etc.
The slides that just have text convert to PDF without issue AND I have successfully exported this to PDF completely in the past. The onlychange that I've had is an upgrade to a newer version of Adobe. I've not made any changes to the Powerpoint Program and the only changes I made to this file are a couple of text changes... so, I"m not sure what's causing this.
Out of curiosity, what do you get if you try the MS plugin to convert to PDF, rather than the Acrobat tools? I am not suggesting to change, although it might be a workaround until you find the problem.
I haven't tried the MS Plugin to convert - I don't use the Acrobat tools. The conversion is built right into Powerpoint 2007 - I just Save As - Other format and choose PDF and it automatically converts to PDF. I've not used PDF Maker or PDF printer and Powerpoint 2007 no longer has the Print to PDF option.
With WORD/PPT 2007, there are basically 4 methods of creating a PDF, assuming you are working with Acrobat and not a 3rd party product. The most fundamental is to print to the Adobe PDF printer. If you have installed Acrobat, that should be a printer on your system. PDF Maker shows up as an Adobe menu on the WORD menu bar. It is also one of the options in the File>Save as PDF (not sure of the correct name, on the worng machine to check). There is another File>Save as that is the MS plugin. It is not real clear which is which. As I mentioned, printing to the Adobe PDF printer is the most fundamental process, but does not include links and such. It used to be that PDF Maker was just a front end for the printer that added PDF Marks to allow links and such. WIth AA9, they changed the processing somewhat.
I'm working with Acrobat - not a 3rd party. Perhaps I'm missing something but my Word and Powerpoint 2007 do NOT have the option to Print to Adobe PDF printer - it's NOT listed or available (I believe from my research that Microsoft no longer has that availalbe due to issue with Adobe?). The ONLY way I can find to create a PDF (in Adobe) from Word and Powerpoint 2007 is the Save As function. The MS Plugin was for the "Save As" function - I already have that in place.
This issue is recent... I've created a complete PDF of the document pictured above a couple of iterations ago. The only changes I made to the document were some texts changes... I then went to Save As PDF and this time... you see the result... pieces of images missing. I'm wondering if there is a bug or something is the newest update of Adobe Reader 10.1.2? Or if there is somewhere else I should be looking to try to resolve the issue.
The following four screen captures depict the four avenues for obtaining an output PDF from PowerPoint 2007.
The first two make use of PDFMaker.
The third uses the Office 2007 process for output to PDF.
The fourth takes you the the traditional "File > Print" where you select a printer driver.
If the Adobe PDF virtual printer is selected you "print" to PDF.
I am having a similar problem. Have posted question elsewhere but it hasn't been answered. "show large images" is not a solution (and come to think of it, why would you NOT want all images in a pdf to show? I can't think of a single reason for that.
When creating PDF documents from any software (Illustrator, Corel, InDesign, etc), color objects over 50% of the page size have white fill. If object has an outline, the outline will appear normally, but the fill will be white. I've searched forums everywhere and have found no answer. Most forum topics on this are issue focus on settings in the program that exported the PDF. I am 100% sure this is not an export problem, but is something in Acrobat itself (a missed setting? Corrupt program file?)
this option worked for me, thank you. Copy, paste special - selected the SVG image options. Very strange that some of my images showed and others would not even though all of them were from the same source (screen grabs from a mobile device) and in the same location as the pptx document I was working on. Mac user. Glad this forum offered me a solution.
Any there any linux tools that will extract the text from a Powerpoint pptx file? I tried catppt but it just returns file.pptx is not OLE file or Error. abiword --to=txt file.pptx also returns an empty text file.
I can open the file in libreoffice but it doesn't seem to have an "export as text" option. As a guess I also tried libreoffice --headless --convert-to txt:Text file.pptx but that doesn't even return an empty file.
Just pass it the pptx file as $1, and it will write the text into file $2. The content of each slide will not appear in presentation order, and there will be no labels or anything, so you'll need a few more lines of script and a temp directory to get a more readable listing.
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