converting ppt to pdf

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----- Original Message -----

> From: "Shahar Dag" <dag at cs.technion.ac.il>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 2:13:12 AM
> Subject: Re: converting ppt to pdf
>
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tapas Mishra
> To: Ubuntu user technical support
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 9:59 AM
> Subject: converting ppt to pdf
> 
> Hi,
> I am trying convert a bunch of presentations which are in 2003 office
> format extension .ppt.
> Using OpenOffice.presentation to pdf.
> 
> 1) I tried exporting in OpenOffice these presentations as pdf the
> quality of text or image gets distorted.(I did checked the option to
> preserve quality)
> 
> another method I tried was
> 2) to export this ppt to gif on a Windows machine (using PowerPoint)
> and then using imagemagick and pdftk tried to convert them all the
> gifs that I got on a windows machine to pdf.I got some success in it
> but the quality of text was quite distorted.
> What more can I do so that the image which is in ppt looks same in pdf
> also.
> --
> 

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> Hello
> 
> If you have Windows machine with office, install a pseudo printer that
> generated an output pdf file. I am using pdf995.
> 
> Or you can select a postscript printer & print to file to get a ps
> file
> 
> Shahar
> 

You can do the same thing with Ubuntu by installing cups-pdf