PowerPoint 2007 SP2, ExportAsFixedFormat in PowerShell ?

Question

Yesterday I was trying to batch convert a group of PPTs into PDFs for a friend, and I decided to have a look at PowerShell, since it's been sitting on my HD for a while.

Here's the code I've come up with.

$p = new-object -comobject powerpoint.application

# I actually don't know why I have to set the window to visible, 
# but it doesn't work otherwise, anyway, it's not the real problem I have
$p.visible = 1 

$f = $p.presentations.open('\some\file.ppt')

$f.ExportAsFixedFormat('\some\newfile.pdf', 2)

2 is for PDF

Since the "brute force" method didn't work ("type mismatch") I tried to import the enum type with

$pptypepdf= [Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.PpFixedFormatType]::PpFixedFormatTypePDF
$f.ExportAsFixedFormat('\some\newfile.pdf', $pptypepdf)

The strange thing here is that it still throws a "type mismatch" error...

Also, SaveAs works fine with

$f.SaveAs('\some\newfile.pdf', 32) # 32 is for PDF

What am I doing wrong?

Update

Relevant documentation:

• PpFixedFormatType Enumeration
• ExportAsFixedFormat Method

Here's the full error message

$pptypepdf= [Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.PpFixedFormatType]::PpFixedFormatTypePDF
$f.ExportAsFixedFormat($filepath, $pptypepdf)

Exception calling "ExportAsFixedFormat" with "2" argument(s): "Type mismatch. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020005 (DISP_E_TYPEMISMATCH))"

At line:1 char:23
+ $f.ExportAsFixedFormat <<<< ($filepath, $pptypepdf)
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComMethodTargetInvocation

Answer 1

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem now.

Have you managed to solve it?