RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: converting ppt documents to pptx in headless mode

For batch conversion from Office Binary formats to OOXML formats, Microsoft
provides batch converters.

The original ones, released on conjunction with Office 2007 are described
here: <http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=21888>.

The latest ones, released in conjunction with Office 2010 are described here:
<http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11454>.

It is also useful, as part of that kind of migration, to have the Microsoft
Office Compatibility Pack installed on Office XP and 2003 configurations.  The
bulk upgrader apparently relies on it being installed as well (the compatibility
pack allows OOXML files to go both ways in and out of older Office versions).
See <http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3>.

I haven't used the batch converters but assume that the resulting OOXML files
are in "Compatibility Mode", so that down-level features are preserved and
can be round-tripped back to a version that produced the binary versions.


 - Dennis E. Hamilton
   tools for document interoperability,  <http://nfoWorks.org/>
   dennis.hamilton@acm.org  gsm: +1-206-779-9430  @orcmid



-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Säger [mailto:saegerei@t-online.de] 
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 02:37
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: converting ppt documents to pptx in headless mode

Am 06.10.2011 11:03, aneesh.vemuri wrote:
> I searched for documentation of converting ppt documents to pptx format in
> headless mode and I only saw examples of converting to pdf.
> Can someone please help me with the parameters to be passed for this. I have
> ppt files coming in and I want to save them as pptx files.
> Thanks,
> -Aneesh.

Why do you want to do that? It is a very bad idea to use this software 
as a converter from one poorly supported foreign file format into 
another poorly supported foreign file format.
Whatever the reason for this conversion may be, there is no reason not 
to use MS Office for this task.

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