PowerPoint to PDF
Turn a PowerPoint presentation into a PDF that anyone can open, one page per slide, ready to email, print or upload. The conversion runs on your own device, so your presentation is never uploaded.
How to use it
- Choose one or more presentations, or drag them onto the box.
- The first time, the converter downloads (about 78 MB). After that it starts straight away.
- Download each PDF, or all of them together as a ZIP file.
What you get
A PDF with one page for each visible slide, the same shape as the slides (widescreen or the older 4:3), with the text, pictures, tables, charts and slide backgrounds in place. The text stays real text, so the PDF can be searched and copied from.
Hidden slides and speaker notes are left out. Handout layouts (several slides to a page) are not available.
The converter is LibreOffice, the well-known free office suite, running inside your browser. It is not Microsoft PowerPoint, so the result can differ from PowerPoint’s own PDF. If your presentation uses fonts this device does not have, similar-looking fonts are used instead.
Presentations that may not convert exactly
A PDF is a still page, so animations, slide transitions, video and sound do not carry across: each slide appears as it looks once everything has appeared, and a video is shown as its preview picture where the presentation has one. SmartArt diagrams, the colours of PowerPoint’s built-in table styles, unusual effects and some chart types can come out differently. Look through the PDF before you rely on it.
Password-protected presentations cannot be converted. Remove the password in PowerPoint 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 or videos 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 and Excel. 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.
Questions
Is this the same as saving as PDF in PowerPoint?
It is close for most presentations, but not identical: the converter is LibreOffice, not Microsoft PowerPoint. If the exact look matters, compare the PDF with the original before you send it.
Which files can I convert?
PowerPoint presentations ending in .pptx or .ppt, including macro-enabled .pptm files (the macros are not run), slide shows (.ppsx and .pps) and templates (.potx).
Are my speaker notes included?
No. The PDF has one page per visible slide. Hidden slides and speaker notes are left out.
Why is the first conversion slow?
The first time, your browser downloads the converter, about 78 MB. After that it is usually kept, and conversions take a few seconds.
Are my files uploaded?
No. The work happens inside your web browser, on your own device. Before your file is opened, this page locks itself: from then on your browser refuses to let it fetch, upload or send anything at all. You can check: once the page has loaded, switch off your internet connection and it will still work. How the lock works.