ODP to PDF

How to use it

1. Choose one or more ODP presentations, or drag them onto the box.
2. The first time, the converter downloads (about 78 MB). After that it starts straight away.
3. Download each PDF, or all of them together as a ZIP file.

What you get

A PDF with one page per visible slide, at the presentation’s own slide size, with its text, pictures, tables, charts, shapes and backgrounds. The text stays real text, so the PDF can be searched and copied from.

Hidden slides are left out, and the result tells you how many. If every slide is hidden, the page says so rather than making an empty PDF. Speaker notes and comments are not included, and handout layouts are not available.

Presentations that may not convert exactly

The converter is LibreOffice, the free office suite that uses ODP as its own format, running inside your browser. Presentations saved by other programs, such as PowerPoint, can come out slightly differently, and decorative curved lettering (Fontwork) can differ a little. Fonts unavailable to the converter may be substituted, which can change the layout. Check the PDF before you rely on it.

Animations and slide transitions do not exist in a PDF. A video or sound on a slide shows as its preview picture where the presentation stores one; otherwise its space is left blank. The media file itself is never put into the PDF. Form buttons and boxes placed on slides may not appear, and dates that fill themselves in, such as a date in the slide footer, may be shown month first. Templates (.otp) are converted in the same way. Password-protected presentations cannot be converted; save a copy without the password first. Macros are never run.

Your presentation stays on your device

The converter is downloaded from FilePresto first. Then the page locks itself, and only after that is your presentation opened. Once locked, the page cannot send or fetch anything on the internet, so your slides cannot leave your device, even by mistake. Pictures, videos or data that a presentation links to elsewhere on the internet are not fetched.

The first-time download

The converter is a full document engine, about 78 MB, the same one used for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ODT, RTF and ODS. Your browser normally keeps it, so later conversions start much faster, but browsers can clear it to save space. Wi-Fi is recommended. It is designed for computers; on a phone it may be slow or stop, and phones are limited to files of up to 10 MB.

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