A presentation sent as a PDF opens on any computer, tablet or phone without PowerPoint, can't be changed by accident, and prints as handouts. Each slide becomes one page, at the slide's own shape (16:9 or 4:3).
How to convert PowerPoint to PDF
- Add the
.pptx,.pptor.ppsxfile above (or several, or a ZIP of folders). - Keep Convert to: PDF and press Convert.
- Download the PDF.
Shows (.pps, .ppsx) and templates (.pot, .potx) work as well as ordinary presentations,
and so do presentations with macros (.pptm): the macros are never run.
What comes across
- Every slide, in order, with its text, pictures, shapes, tables and charts.
- Text stays text: searchable and copyable in the PDF.
- Fonts are embedded, so the slides look the same everywhere.
What doesn't
- Animations, transitions, sound and video: a PDF shows each slide as it looks once every animation has run, and it doesn't play media.
- Speaker notes are not included.
- Fonts that aren't installed here are replaced. Calibri, Arial and Times New Roman get replacements with the same letter widths; theme fonts and decorative fonts can make a title run onto a second line. The report lists the fonts of every file.
Pictures of the slides
To use slides on a website or in social media, convert to PNG pictures instead: you get one picture per slide at the resolution you choose.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Document Converter.