A wrapper to convert MS Office ppt or pptx files to pdf files
This script is intended to help students using GNU Linux.
Sadly enough, professors often distribute their class presentations
in the closed-source ppt or pptx format. These can be opened with
LibreOffice nowadays, but it's not quite the same: the fonts often don't match
and figures are misaligned.
This script will end your misery by batch-converting the presentations in the pdf format, which albeit closed-source too renders much better on Linux.
- Microsoft Windows 7 or higher
- Microsoft Office 2013 or higher
- Python > 2.5
- pypiwin32:
sudo pip install pypiwin23
Navigate your shell into a directory containing the ppt or pptx` files.
Then, run:
./ppt2pdf
A directory called pdf will be created if it doesn't exist yet, containing
the converted files.
This script is a wrapper for the code in K. Scott Allen's blog post