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PowerPoint 2007 .pptx not supported yet?
Hello out there. This is my first post here. I installed PDFCreator several months ago on my Windows 2k3 Server as a printer server and it works really good. I am very happy with it and my users also. I just have some problems with certain document types. Right now for example, I want to convert a Powerpoint 2007 slide (.pptx) into a PDF file. I select the first 4 pages in the printing dialog but then just get a 3kB file which displays nothing - just an empty page. Is that file type not supported yet? I do not use it that often, so I have no comparisons, but converting Office 2003 slides (.ppt) works flawlessly as far as I can tell. I tried for some files and all looked fine. I tried with .ppsx files (screen presentations) and it also works. So is it possible to directly support .pptx?
Bye, Schnippes
That's strange. While .ppsx was working from the beginning, .pptx was not. Since first try over the last days, I just added some slides in the middle of the presentation by duplicating already existing ones, tested it again and now I get the output I expected. Cannot tell what was wrong with the version some steps ago but I did not keep that state as file, so I cannot reproduce it. Just at that step I tested it with other printer drivers like PDF995 which were working but PDFCreator was not, only with old .ppt and .ppsx. So it seems to be not a regular problem with the file format but with the file at that stage.
PDFCreator implements a virtual printer, it knows nothing about fire formats and such. I suspect there is a problem with Powerpoint dealing with that format, have you tried to print the same file onto a real printer?
http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/
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