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To convert PowerPoint to PDF, upload the deck as .pptx, .ppt or .odp and download a PDF with one page per slide. Nobody on the receiving end needs presentation software to open it.
A PDF also holds its layout on every device, and nobody can change a slide by mistake. That is why decks usually travel as PDFs after a meeting.
Conversion happens on our servers in Germany, not in your browser. Your deck is sent over an encrypted connection. Our servers delete it and the PDF on their own within two hours.
How to save a slide deck as a PDF
- Drag in one deck or a whole folder of them.
- Start the conversion with the Convert to PDF button.
- Save the PDF, or the ZIP for several decks.
- Scroll through the PDF to confirm the fonts and line breaks look right.
Every deck from a conference day
After an event there is often one deck per speaker. Drop the whole folder: each file becomes its own PDF, and the set downloads as one ZIP. Batch size depends on the plan: 5 files with no account, 10 once you sign up for free, and 500 on Pro, which costs EUR 7.99 a month or EUR 59 a year. Each file can be up to 50 MB, or 500 MB with Pro. The daily allowance is 20 server jobs without an account and 50 with a free one, and Pro has none.
To shrink and rename the PDFs in the same pass, build a pipeline that converts, compresses and renames the folder. It is free to try on 3 files. Credits cover a large one-off batch without a subscription: one credit covers 25 files, and credits never expire.
Slides become still pages
A PDF shows each slide the way it looks once every animation has finished. Transitions and animations disappear, and anything that would fly or fade in during a talk sits in its final place. Video and sound clips cannot play inside the PDF, so their slides show the poster frame or a placeholder instead. Your speaker notes are left out too.
Slides you hid are normally skipped, the same as in a slideshow. Unhide any that belong in the PDF before converting.
Page shape, pictures and fonts
Each page keeps the aspect ratio of its slide, so a 16:9 deck gives wide pages and a 4:3 deck squarer ones. Photos keep the resolution stored in the deck, so the PDF shows them exactly as sharp as the slides do. A deck full of photos can therefore produce a big PDF. If it is too large to email, Compress PDF can bring the size down.
Fonts deserve a quick check. Where a deck relies on a font our servers lack, a similar one is used instead, and a line that only just fitted its box may break in a new place. Turning on font embedding in PowerPoint before you save prevents this.
FAQ
Can the PDF use a handout layout with several slides per page?
No. This tool puts every slide on a page of its own.
Will a link on a slide still open from the PDF?
Yes. Links keep working, so readers can click through from the PDF.
The deck lives in an online editor. How do I convert it?
Download it as a .pptx file first, then convert that file here.