PowerPoint to PDF

A PDF of your deck without handing it to a server

A PDF is how presentations travel: it opens on any phone, prints predictably and can't be edited by accident. If you have PowerPoint, its own export is the best route. This tool is for when you don't — a deck arrives on a phone or a shared computer, or you would rather not upload a confidential presentation to an online converter.

A .pptx file is a package of slides, layouts, a master and a theme, and the look of a slide comes from all four. The converter reads that package the way PowerPoint does: a title's position comes from the layout, its size and colour from the master, its font from the theme. It then draws each slide onto a PDF page of exactly the slide's size.

What is drawn, and what is not

Drawn: slide and master backgrounds, pictures with their crop, rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows and custom shapes with solid fills and outlines, grouped objects, tables with their style and banding, and text with its size, weight, colour, alignment, bullets, numbering and line spacing. Rotated shapes keep their angle. The text is real text: you can select, search and copy it.

Not drawn: charts, SmartArt diagrams and embedded objects (each chart gets a labelled placeholder), gradient fills (the first colour is used), shadows, glows and 3-D effects, and pictures in the old EMF and WMF formats. The result screen counts each of these, so you never have to discover a gap by reading every page.

About the fonts

A browser cannot embed your copy of Calibri or Aptos into a PDF, so text is set in the standard PDF fonts, plus embedded Noto fonts for ₹, Hindi and other scripts. To keep lines breaking where PowerPoint breaks them, each font is matched to the average width of the one in your deck. The words sit where they should; the letter shapes are those of Helvetica or Times. To go the other way, PDF to PowerPoint turns a PDF back into editable slides.