PowerPoint to PDF
Convert PowerPoint .pptx & .ppt to PDF.
Click to upload or drag & drop
Select a presentation (.pptx or .ppt)
How to use the PowerPoint to PDF
- 1Add your deck
Choose a .pptx, .ppt or .odp presentation, or drop it onto the upload panel.
- 2Render the slides
Hit Convert to PDF. LibreOffice Impress lays out each slide at its own dimensions and writes them in running order.
- 3Take the file
The PDF comes back ready to attach, print or hand round.
Examples
| Input | Output |
|---|---|
24-slide deck | 24 PDF pages, same order |
Bullet build animation | All bullets shown at once |
Slide transitions | Dropped entirely |
Embedded video or audio | Still placeholder, no playback |
Speaker notes | Not exported |
16:9 widescreen slides | 13.33 x 7.5 in pages |
A deck is a performance; a PDF is the script
PowerPoint files are built to be played. They have timing, an order of reveal, a person talking over them and a pointer moving about. A PDF has none of that: it is a stack of still pages that behave identically wherever they are opened. Converting between the two is less a change of file type than a change of purpose, and the question worth asking before you start is what the recipient is meant to do with the result — read it on a train, print it for a meeting, file it as the record of what was shown.
LibreOffice Impress performs the render here, taking each slide in turn and committing it to a page.
Your slide size becomes your page size
This surprises people more than anything else on the list. The PDF pages are not A4; they are exactly the dimensions of your slides. A modern widescreen deck produces pages of 13.33 by 7.5 inches, an older 4:3 deck 10 by 7.5. On screen that is ideal, because the pages match the design with no bars at the edges. Sent to a printer it means scaling, and the familiar strips of white above and below. If the deck is destined for paper, set the slide size to A4 landscape in PowerPoint before you convert rather than fighting the print dialog afterwards.
What movement leaves behind
Everything that depended on time has to resolve into a single frame. Transitions between slides vanish, since there is nothing between two pages of a PDF to transition through. Animations settle into their end state, which means a slide designed around a sequence of reveals now shows every element simultaneously. Media objects lose their playback. Meanwhile the things that never moved come across intact: layout, images, colour, charts, tables and the text itself, which stays selectable and searchable rather than being flattened into a picture — handy when someone needs to quote a figure from slide nineteen.
What this converter deliberately does not do
There is no handout mode here: you cannot ask for six slides on a page, and there is no notes layout with the slide on top and your script underneath. Every slide claims a page of its own. PowerPoint itself can produce those layouts if you need them, and its handout output can then be printed to PDF from your own machine.
Useful next steps
- Photo-heavy deck making a PDF too large to email → Compress PDF before you send it.
- Several speakers in one session → Merge PDF stitches the converted decks into a single conference pack.
- Unreleased results or client material → Protect PDF puts a password on the file before it circulates.
- Sharing with someone on LibreOffice rather than Office → PowerPoint to ODP keeps the deck editable instead of freezing it.
How the file is handled
Laying out slide masters, theme fonts, charts and embedded graphics is presentation software’s work, and there is no version of that a web page can perform on its own, so the deck is sent to our server to be rendered. The transfer is encrypted, each conversion runs in its own temporary directory with nothing else in it, and that directory — your presentation and the PDF alike — is destroyed once the result has been handed back.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens to my build animations?
They collapse. A slide that reveals four bullet points one click at a time is a single picture once it stops moving, and that finished picture is what lands on the page. Usually this is fine. It stops being fine when a build was hiding overlap on purpose — an arrow that flies in over a diagram, a box that covers an earlier label — because everything is now visible at once and the pieces land on top of each other. Preview any slide built that way before you send the PDF on.
Are speaker notes included?
No. The export covers the slides themselves, so the notes pane stays behind and nothing you wrote there is exposed to whoever opens the file. That is a useful privacy property when you are sending the deck to an audience, and an annoyance when you actually wanted notes pages. If you need the notes in the shared copy, move that text onto the slide, or into a slide of its own, before converting.
Why is my PDF page a strange size instead of A4?
Because the slide size becomes the page size. Widescreen 16:9 decks are 13.33 by 7.5 inches, so that is the page you get; older 4:3 decks give 10 by 7.5 inches. Neither matches A4 or Letter, which is why printing a deck usually leaves a band of white at the top and bottom. Your print dialog can scale it to fit, or you can change the slide size in PowerPoint to A4 landscape and convert again.
What about the video I embedded?
A PDF page cannot play it. Where the player sat you will find a still stand-in rather than working media, and any audio track attached to the slide is simply absent. If the video carries part of the argument, keep a link to it on the slide as text so the reader has somewhere to go.
Do my hyperlinks and fonts survive?
Links usually do: text carrying a web address generally stays clickable in the PDF, so a contact page or source reference keeps working. Fonts are the riskier half. A typeface installed on your laptop but not on the rendering machine is swapped for the nearest match, and a substitute with slightly different letter widths can push a long title onto a second line or out of its text box. Brand decks with unusual display fonts are worth a quick page-by-page check.
Any cost, limit or branding on the output?
It is free and unbranded, with no account needed and nothing added to the pages. Decks are accepted up to 100 MB, which is generous for slides but not infinite: a presentation stuffed with full-resolution photography can approach it, and compressing the images in PowerPoint first makes both the upload and the resulting PDF easier to send.