When to turn PowerPoint into PDF
Hand over the original deck and someone can edit a slide by accident, or open a build-heavy slide and see it in the wrong state. Anyone without PowerPoint cannot open it at all.
As a PDF it becomes a document you page through, and it opens the same way everywhere. This tool sends your file to our conversion server, where LibreOffice does the work, then hands back the PDF and deletes both copies.
How to use it
- 1Upload your deck. It takes pptx, ppt and odp.
- 2Press Convert to PDF and the conversion server takes over.
- 3Download the PDF, or share it straight from the page.
Common questions
- Does this one stay in my browser too?
- No. This tool sends your file to our conversion server. Both the original and the result are deleted as soon as the conversion finishes.
- What happens to animations?
- They are gone. A PDF cannot hold motion, so each slide is saved in its final state. A slide built to reveal one bullet per click ends up showing every bullet at once.
- Are speaker notes included?
- No. Only the slides themselves are converted.
- The fonts look different.
- Fonts the conversion server lacks are substituted with close matches. CJK text is fine — those fonts are installed — but an unusual display font may come out looking different.
- Is there a size limit?
- 4MB. Decks are image-heavy and cross that line easily. The Compress Pictures option in PowerPoint usually brings a deck under the limit.