PowerPoint to PDF

About PowerPoint to PDF

This tool converts a PowerPoint .pptx file into a PDF, with one slide on each page. The page is exactly the size of your slide, so a 16:9 deck gives a 16:9 PDF and a 4:3 deck gives a 4:3 PDF — no white bars, no cropping.

Most converters on the web upload your file to a server. This one does not. Your deck is opened inside your browser, and the PDF is built there too. Nothing leaves your computer, which matters when the slides are a sales plan, an exam paper, or anything else you would rather not hand to a stranger.

What gets drawn, and what does not

Being honest about this saves you a wasted download:

Drawn:

• Slide background colours
• Text boxes — including size, bold, italic, colour, alignment and bullet levels
• Pictures (PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP), placed and rotated as on the slide
• Simple filled shapes

Not drawn:

• Charts and SmartArt
• Tables
• 3-D effects, shadows, gradients and glows
• Animations and slide transitions — a PDF is a still document
• Speaker notes
• EMF / WMF images, which no browser can decode

A slide that uses one of these still becomes a page, with everything else on it intact. For a text-and-picture deck the result is usually very close to the original. For a chart-heavy report, use PowerPoint's own *Save as PDF*.

Quality setting

The quality slider decides how many pixels each slide is painted with before it goes into the PDF:

• 1x — smallest file, fine for reading on screen
• 1.5x — the default; a good balance for printing and email
• 2x to 3x — sharpest text and images, and a much bigger file

A 20-slide deck at 1.5x usually lands between 2 and 6 MB.

Features

• One slide, one page, at the slide's real size
• Works with 16:9, 4:3 and custom slide sizes
• Drag and drop, or pick a file
• A thumbnail preview of the first slides as they are converted
• A progress bar for long decks
• 100% in your browser — no upload, no sign-up, no watermark

What people use it for

• Sending a deck to someone who does not have PowerPoint
• Printing handouts that look the same on every machine
• Uploading to a site that only takes PDFs
• Locking the layout so fonts do not shift on another computer
• Attaching slides to an email without the file being edited on the way

Good to know

• Only .pptx works. An old .ppt file must be opened in PowerPoint (or LibreOffice) and saved as .pptx first.
• Fonts are drawn with what your computer has installed. If the deck uses a font you do not have, the text is still drawn, in a close substitute.
• A very large deck (100+ slides with big photos) takes a while and uses a lot of memory. Convert it in halves if your browser struggles.
• The text in the PDF is not selectable — each slide is painted as an image. That keeps the layout exactly right on any machine.

How to use it

• Drop your .pptx file on the box, or press Choose file
• Pick a quality — 1.5x is right for most decks
• Press Convert to PDF
• Watch the thumbnails appear so you can see it is going well
• The PDF downloads on its own when it is finished