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How to use the powerpoint to pdf
- 1Drop your .pptx presentation into the box above.
- 2Decide whether to include speaker notes — they are added on a page after each slide that has them.
- 3Press Convert to PDF and wait while the slides are drawn.
- 4Download the PDF. Any content that could not be drawn is listed above the download.
Slides are not reflowed, and that is the whole design
The other document converters on this site reflow their input: a Word file becomes a stream of paragraphs which are then wrapped onto pages. Doing that to a presentation would be wrong. A slide is a fixed canvas, deliberately composed, and a converted slide whose text has been rewrapped into a column is not the same slide.
So this reader keeps geometry. Every page is created at the deck's own dimensions — 960 × 540 points for a 16:9 deck, 720 × 540 for 4:3 — and each shape is drawn inside the rectangle PowerPoint recorded for it. Positions are stored in English Metric Units, 12,700 to the point, and converted directly; a title 1.2 inches from the top of the slide lands 1.2 inches from the top of the page.
Two structural details cause most of the misplaced-content bugs in other converters, and both are handled. Placeholders — the title and body boxes — usually carry no position of their own; they inherit it from the slide layout, and the layout from the slide master. A converter that does not follow that chain stacks every title in the top-left corner. Grouped shapes, meanwhile, have coordinates expressed in the group's own child coordinate space, which is then mapped onto the group's position on the slide. Ignoring that mapping scatters grouped shapes across the page.
What comes across, and what cannot
Text in placeholders, text boxes and shapes is drawn at its position, with bold and italic preserved, bullet levels indented, and paragraph alignment respected. Where a text box holds more text than fits at its declared size — which happens whenever the original relied on PowerPoint's autofit — the type is scaled down until it fits, because text running off the edge of a slide is the one outcome nobody wants. Pictures are placed and scaled exactly as positioned. Tables are drawn as ruled grids with their header row shaded.
Charts and SmartArt are not included, and it is worth explaining why rather than just listing it as a limitation. PowerPoint does not store a chart as a picture. It stores the underlying data plus instructions for how to draw it, and the actual rendering is done by PowerPoint's own charting engine at display time. Reproducing that means reimplementing that engine. The tool detects them and says which slides were affected, so you know exactly what to check.
Also not reproduced: slide backgrounds and theme fills, animations and transitions (which have no meaning in a PDF anyway), embedded video and audio, WordArt effects, and shape geometry — a text box with a rounded blue border is drawn as its text, not as a rounded blue box. Windows metafile images, which is how some older clip art and pasted drawings are stored, cannot be rendered by any browser and are reported rather than drawn.
Speaker notes, and handouts
Speaker notes are stored on a separate notes slide attached to each slide, and this tool can read them. Switch the option on and each slide's notes are added on the page following it, with a heading naming the slide number. That produces a document you can print and hold while presenting — the same thing PowerPoint's Notes Pages layout gives you, without needing PowerPoint.
It is also useful for review. Sending a client a PDF of the deck with notes included tells them the argument behind each slide, which a bare slide often does not. Leave the option off for the version you circulate afterwards.
What this does not produce is a handout layout with several slides to a page. If you want that, convert without notes and then run the result through the N-up tool on this site, which puts two, four or six PDF pages onto each sheet — the same operation, and it works on any PDF rather than only on presentations.
Fonts and file sizes
Slide text is drawn with the standard PDF fonts rather than the fonts in your deck, so a presentation set in a distinctive corporate typeface will come out in Helvetica. The metrics differ, which is why the fit-to-box scaling exists — without it, text set in a wider font would overflow its placeholder. If exact typography matters more than privacy for a particular deck, PowerPoint's own export embeds the real fonts and is the better choice.
For the same reason as the other converters here, characters outside Western European Latin — Devanagari, CJK, Arabic — cannot be drawn by the standard fonts, and slide text containing them is reported in a warning.
File size is dominated by the images in your deck, which are copied across unchanged rather than recompressed. A text-heavy deck converts to a few hundred kilobytes; a photo-heavy one stays roughly the size of the original. If the result is larger than you want to email, the Compress PDF tool on this site will bring it down, and it also runs entirely in your browser.
Frequently asked questions
Is my presentation uploaded?
No. The .pptx is unzipped and read in this browser tab and the PDF is drawn in memory. Nothing is transmitted — useful for pitch decks, internal strategy and anything under an NDA.
Does each slide become one page?
Yes, at the deck's own dimensions, so a 16:9 deck produces 16:9 pages. If you include speaker notes, a notes page is added after each slide that has them.
Why are my charts missing?
PowerPoint stores a chart as data plus drawing instructions rather than as a picture, and rendering it requires PowerPoint's own charting engine. The tool lists which slides were affected so you can check them. Pasting a chart into the deck as an image before converting is the reliable workaround.
Are animations and transitions kept?
No — a PDF has no way to represent them. Each slide is drawn in its final state, with all its content visible.
Will it use the fonts from my deck?
No. Slides are drawn with the standard PDF fonts, which is what keeps the file small and needs no font embedding. Text is scaled to fit its box so nothing overflows, but a distinctive corporate typeface will not be reproduced.
Can it convert a .ppt file?
No — only .pptx. The older binary .ppt format is a different structure entirely. Open it in PowerPoint or LibreOffice and save as .pptx, then convert that.