Convert PowerPoint to PDF
Convert PowerPoint presentations (PPT, PPTX) to PDF format. Upload a PowerPoint file to create a PDF.
Combine multiple PDFs into one
Split a PDF into separate files
Reorder pages by dragging
Pull specific pages out
Pull all images out
Remove pages from PDF
Rotate pages in any direction
Stack one PDF onto another
Reduce PDF file size
Clean up unused data
Make scanned text searchable
Spot the differences between two PDFs
Add text, signatures, shapes
Add your signature anywhere
Add text or image watermark
Number pages as 1, i or A
Add sticky-note comments
Ready-to-use forms to fill online
Add a password
Unlock a PDF with its password
Black out sensitive info
Editable .docx export
Tables as .xlsx
Each page as a JPG
Each page as a PNG
Each page as a WebP
Turn JPG images into a PDF
Turn PNG images into a PDF
Combine JPG, PNG, GIF or WebP into one PDF
Convert .docx to PDF
Convert .xlsx to PDF
Convert .pptx to PDF
Turn an HTML file into a PDF
Capture a webpage
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PowerPoint to PDF with one page per slide
Each slide becomes one page of the PDF, in the order of the deck. The pages take the slide size you designed for, so a widescreen 16:9 deck gives wide pages and a 4:3 deck squarer ones.
There is nothing to set on this page: layout, colours and backgrounds all come from the presentation itself, so any change belongs in PowerPoint before you convert.
This ppt file to pdf conversion is also how you convert PowerPoint to PDF without opening the presentation app yourself.
What changes, and what doesn't, from PPTX to PDF
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Animations are flattened
A PDF can't play effects, so every object sits on its slide at once, including ones set to appear on click.
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Speaker notes stay out
Only the slides are exported. Your notes stay in the presentation file.
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Links keep working
Web links placed on a slide still open when someone clicks them in the PDF.
What happens to a deck during conversion
When you click Convert to PDF, the presentation is uploaded and opened by a presentation program on our server, which draws every slide again and exports the slides as PDF pages. The PDF comes back to your browser with a preview of its pages, the original and converted file sizes, and an Open in Editor button that takes it to Edit PDF.
Because the slides are drawn again, fonts matter. If the deck uses a font that the server doesn't have and the file doesn't carry, a similar font stands in, and text can run a little longer inside its box.
Each conversion is allowed up to six minutes, and a deck that needs longer is stopped with an error. Several decks are sent one at a time, and the button counts through them as each one finishes.
Get the deck ready in PowerPoint
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Embed your fonts
In PowerPoint, go to File, Options, Save and tick Embed fonts in the file. The deck then carries its own fonts, so no slide falls back to a similar one.
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Untangle stacked objects
Objects that replace each other during an animation all show at once in the PDF, so check slides where pictures or text boxes sit on top of each other.
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Swap videos for a still
A video won't play in the PDF. A frame from it, or a link to where it can be watched, tells readers what they are missing.
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Name the file first
A single PDF takes the presentation's name, with spaces and special characters turned into underscores and our site name added. Rename the file before uploading if you want a different name.
When to share a presentation as a PDF
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Recipients without PowerPoint
A PDF opens in any browser or phone viewer, and the slides look the same on every screen.
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Printed handouts
Each slide fills its own page, ready to print as handouts or a reference copy.
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Uploads that only take PDF
Conference, course and job application portals often accept PDF and nothing else.
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A final version to circulate
Once the deck is a PDF, nobody moves a text box or edits a figure by accident.
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Reading on a tablet
A PDF pages through slide by slide in any tablet or e-reader app, with nothing extra to install.
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A record of the talk
Keep a fixed copy of exactly what was shown, next to the deck you will keep editing.
PowerPoint to PDF questions
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Yes. PPT files from PowerPoint 97 to 2003 are converted the same way as current PPTX files, with no need to resave them. A file with no extension at all is treated as PPTX.
Yes. Select or drop them together and you get one ZIP called converted-pdfs, with each PDF named after its deck and a download button for each. If one deck fails, the others still convert and the failure is listed with its reason.
Convert them here first, then join the PDFs in the order you want with Merge PDF.
Not here: this page takes PPT and PPTX only, and other files are turned away. Keynote can save a PowerPoint copy under File, Export To, PowerPoint, and most other presentation apps can too.
Yes. Text typed on the slides is stored as text, so it can be searched, selected and copied. Text that is part of a picture stays an image.
Convert the deck here, then open the PDF in PDF to Image to save each page as a picture.
Decks full of photos make large PDFs. Run the result through Compress PDF to bring the size down before you attach it.