Problem printing a pptx or converted pdf file through cups printing server

[Dan]

Hi Helge,
Thx for the fast reply...wel the printing server workes ok for other documents type...but only this dowsn't work...other simple pdf work just this dam pictures don;t. maybe the versione i have is to old?!



> Dan wrote:
>
> > hi all,
> >
> > Please help me figure this out. I instaled cups printing server on a
> > fedora distribution. i ocnfigured a bunch of printers for my little
> > office. Everything worked ok until i received a pptx file that had 20
> > slides with full slide picture in it. it seems that it will not print the
> > file...the server doesn't even receive the request from the windows 7
> > machine or the iMAC. i run versione 1.3.11 . i tried to convert the pptx
> > into a pdf with lower resolution in pictures but still it is not working.
> >
> > if i trie to rpin from windows just 2 slides the printer properties showes
> > 78 MB of data....the printer's only have 32 MB max.
> >
> > if anyone has/had this problem please tell me a solution.
> > it drives me crazy because i can't print.
> >
> > dan
>
> Your pptx file is probably an "open xml" based powerpoint document. I is, in
> reality, a ZIP archive containing a bunch of XML files which represent the
> document.
> There are some commercial utilities around to convert pptx files to PDF or
> PS, but they all seem to run only on Windows.
> In a CUPS environment, you could try to use LibreOffice as a filter (see the
> links on the CUPS web site), but to my experience this requires some
> expertise and a lot of trial and error to get it work (on Linux at least,
> perhaps you need to install a fake X server etc.).
>
> Helge
>