Convert PowerPoint to PDF

When do you need to convert PowerPoint to PDF?

When you want to send a presentation to be read, not edited: a graduation project handed to a teacher, a price proposal for a client, or seminar slides shared with attendees afterwards. A PDF opens on any phone or computer without PowerPoint, and each slide becomes its own page.

What the tool does exactly

The tool reads your .pptx file inside your browser and draws each slide with its elements where the presentation puts them: titles and body text in the positions set by the template, images, shapes, tables and Arabic text. Each slide is then placed on a PDF page at the presentation's own size, so a widescreen (16:9) deck gives wide pages and an older 4:3 deck keeps its proportions.

• One slide per page, in the order of the slides in the file.
• Pages are images: the look is fixed as drawn, but the text in the PDF can't be selected or searched.
• What comes through closely: the positions of titles and paragraphs, font sizes inherited from the template, images, and text colours.

How to convert PowerPoint to PDF

1. 1
   Choose a .pptx PowerPoint file or drag it onto the box.
2. 2
   Click "Convert to PDF Now" and wait while the slides are drawn. The status line shows how many slides were converted.
3. 3
   Click "Preview Output Document" and page through the result, especially slides with tables or charts.
4. 4
   Click "Download PDF File". The file keeps your presentation's name.

When to export from PowerPoint itself

Drawing slides in the browser works well for simple decks (titles, bullet points, images), but it doesn't match PowerPoint in every detail. If the deck will be printed or presented formally, or you need searchable text, exporting from the program itself is more faithful:

• PowerPoint: File → Save As → choose PDF.
• Google Slides: File → Download → PDF Document.
• LibreOffice Impress: File → Export as PDF.

If the PDF is too large to send, run it through Compress PDF. To combine several decks into one file, use Merge PDF.

Limitations

• Only .pptx is supported. Open older .ppt files in PowerPoint and save them as .pptx first.
• Charts, SmartArt, video and audio, animations and transitions are not drawn or appear incomplete.
• Bullet markers in lists may not show, and built-in table styles (shading and borders) are not always applied.
• If the deck's font isn't installed on your device, a substitute is used, so line lengths may shift slightly.
• Speaker notes are not included in the PDF.
• One file at a time; very large decks depend on your device's memory.

Where is the processing done?

Reading the presentation, drawing the slides and building the PDF all happen in your browser, using the pptx-preview and pdf-lib libraries. The file is not sent to our servers.

PowerPoint to PDF: frequently asked questions