ODP to PDF
Convert OpenDocument .odp slides to PDF.
Click to upload or drag & drop
Select a OpenDocument Presentation (.odp)
How to use the ODP to PDF
- 1Pick the presentation
Select your .odp or .fodp from disk, or drop it straight onto the box above.
- 2Flatten it to pages
Choose Convert to PDF. Impress renders each visible slide at its full design size, one slide to a page.
- 3Take the handout
The PDF downloads on its own once rendering is done.
Examples
| Input | Output |
|---|---|
Five-step bullet build | One page, all five shown |
Fade or wipe transition | Dropped entirely |
Embedded video clip | Still frame only |
Speaker notes pane | Left in the .odp |
Slide marked hidden | Skipped |
16:9 slide size | Landscape page, same ratio |
Convert ODP to PDF
An OpenDocument Presentation is choreography as much as content. It holds a running order, things that fly in on cue, a transition between one idea and the next, and a private column of notes only the presenter ever sees. A PDF holds none of that. Converting a deck is really an act of translation: you are turning a performance into a document, and it is worth knowing in advance which half of the deck survives the journey.
Everything the deck leaves behind
Motion is the first casualty, and it goes quietly — nothing warns you. Entrance and emphasis animations are not staged; every object on a slide is simply drawn, as though the build had already run to its end. Transitions between slides have nowhere to live at all and vanish. Embedded audio and video do not travel, leaving whatever still image stood in for them on the slide. Speaker notes are not written out. Slides you hid are passed over, which is normally a convenience and occasionally a nasty shock when the appendix you meant to include was one of them.
And what it gains in return
What you get back is a file that opens on absolutely anything, with no presentation software involved and no risk of the recipient’s version rearranging your master slides. The typefaces are embedded, so the deck you designed is the deck they see even if they have none of your fonts. Text stays selectable and searchable rather than being baked into a bitmap, so a reader can copy a quotation out of slide 12 or find every mention of a project name. Links on text and shapes remain clickable. And because each slide is now just a page, ordinary document tools work on it — you can combine decks, reorder pages or print the thing four-up without going anywhere near Impress.
Worth doing in Impress first
- Unhide anything you want in the handout, and hide the slides that were only ever for you.
- Check the slides where a build carried the meaning. If two elements were designed to overlap at different moments, they will now overlap permanently.
- If the deck is destined for paper rather than a screen, remember that a full-bleed dark background will be printed as a full-bleed dark background, at some cost in toner.
Other routes for the same deck
- The recipient has to present from it or edit it in PowerPoint → ODP to PPTX, which keeps the slides editable.
- Several converted decks need to become one pack → Merge PDF.
- The image-heavy result is too large to email → Compress PDF.
- You started from a PowerPoint file instead → PPTX to PDF.
The upload, and why there has to be one
Drawing an Impress slide correctly means resolving master slides, layout placeholders, theme colours, gradients, custom shape geometry and embedded charts — the work of a real presentation engine, not something a page of browser code can improvise. LibreOffice does that work for you here, on our hardware. Your deck is sent over an encrypted connection, rendered inside a sandbox built for that single request, and wiped together with the sandbox as soon as the PDF is on its way back.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens to a slide built up in several clicks?
It collapses into one page showing every element at once. A five-stage build where bullets arrive one at a time becomes a single page with all five bullets on it. That is usually what a reader wants from a handout, but if the build was the whole gag — a quiz answer revealed after the question, a before-and-after overlay — duplicate the slide in Impress and stage the reveal manually across two or three slides before you convert.
Are the speaker notes in the PDF?
Not by this route. The export writes the slides themselves, so the notes pane stays in the .odp and your presenter script does not accidentally go out with the handout. People are sometimes counting on that and sometimes caught out by it, so it is worth knowing which camp you are in before you send the file.
Why is the PDF page shaped like a slide instead of A4?
Because the page takes its dimensions from the slide. A 16:9 deck produces wide landscape pages of the same proportion rather than portrait letter-sized ones, which is right for on-screen reading and for projection. If you specifically need something that prints edge to edge on office paper, change the slide format in Impress to A4 first and let it reflow the master before converting.
Do hidden slides come through?
They are skipped. Slides you marked as hidden in Impress are treated as excluded from the presentation, so they are excluded from the document as well. If a hidden slide contains an appendix you actually want in the handout, unhide it before uploading.
Is there any cost, branding or upload limit?
The tool is free, needs no sign-up, and adds nothing of its own to your pages — no corner logo, no footer line. Decks of up to 100 MB are accepted, which comfortably covers a heavily illustrated presentation, though a deck stuffed with video will be mostly footage you are about to lose anyway.