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PPTX is Microsoft PowerPoint OOXML document format. This command line showing how to convert multiple PPTX into PDF. This article is intended for everyone to be able to convert Microsoft PowerPoint into PDF document in GNU/Linux system. This article is also a companion of converting PowerPoint to Impress article.


soffice --headless --convert-to pdf *.pptx

Important note: close all LibreOffice windows before running this command, otherwise it won't work.


A sample result from Keyboard PPT Template shown below (left = PPTX, right = PDF):


We use some PPTX templates from resources below: