PowerPoint to PDF

Anyone can open a PDF without PowerPoint, and the slides look the same on every device. That's why decks are usually sent to attendees, attached to applications or archived as PDFs. Nobody can edit the slides by accident, and the file reads well on a phone.

This tool creates one PDF page per slide at the presentation's own aspect ratio (16:9, 4:3 or custom). Text is real text, not an image, so you can select it, copy it and search it.

A slide is built from layers: the slide master, the layout and the slide itself. The converter follows that chain, so inherited backgrounds, logos, font sizes and colours appear as expected.

• Text boxes and placeholders: paragraphs, bold, italic, underline, colours, bullets and numbered lists, alignment, line spacing and shrink-to-fit text.
• Pictures: PNG, JPEG, GIF and other common formats, with PowerPoint's cropping applied.
• Shapes: rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, arrows, stars, callouts and many other built-in shapes, with fills, outlines, dashes, rotation and flipping.
• Colours and backgrounds: theme colours, solid and gradient fills, transparency, background pictures.
• Tables: cell fills, borders, merged cells and banded built-in table styles.
• Groups and connector lines with arrowheads.

Some PowerPoint features can't be reproduced faithfully in a browser. The result lists them so you know which slides to check:

• Charts and SmartArt aren't drawn. If you need them, PowerPoint's File → Export → PDF is the reliable route, or paste the chart back in as a picture.
• Video and audio show only their poster frame.
• Animations and transitions are dropped; every object appears in its final position.
• Shadows, glows, 3D effects and rare shapes may be simplified.
• EMF/WMF images (often older Office clip art) can't be shown.
• Fonts such as Calibri are replaced with embedded fonts of similar width, so line breaks stay close to the original.

Old .ppt files (PowerPoint 97–2003) need to be saved as .pptx first.

A few small steps get you even closer to the original: paste important charts back in as pictures, convert SmartArt to shapes (SmartArt → Convert → Convert to Shapes), and re-save old EMF or WMF clip art as PNG. Check slides where text only just fits its box, since a substitute font can push a word onto the next line.

Type slide numbers into the Slides field, for example 1-5, 8 or 3-. Leave it empty to include every slide. Hidden slides are left out by default, as in a slideshow; switch on Include hidden slides if you want them. Speaker notes aren't included.

To combine several decks, convert them one by one and merge the PDFs. If the file is too big for email, compress it, and if you need slides as images, use PDF to JPG.

The conversion runs entirely in your browser. Your presentation isn't uploaded or stored, so business plans, internal decks and client material are safe to convert. There's no sign-up and no watermark. A deck with many high-resolution photos may take a little longer, since the work happens on your device.