PPTXtoPDF
Convert PPTX to PDF
Up to 3 files at once, 100 with Pro. Mixed formats are fine.
A PDF of your deck opens anywhere, looks identical everywhere, and cannot be edited by accident. It also cannot animate, which is the trade worth understanding first.
Slide decks get converted to PDF for good reasons. Not everyone has PowerPoint. A file emailed as a PPTX opens differently depending on the version, the platform and the fonts installed. Handouts need to print. And a deck sent to a client as a PDF cannot be edited by accident, or on purpose, which is occasionally the entire point.
What you gain is certainty: one slide to a page, in the deck's own aspect ratio, with the fonts embedded so it looks the same on every machine that opens it. Widescreen slides give you widescreen pages rather than being letterboxed onto A4, which is what most converters get wrong and what makes a printed handout look considered rather than improvised.
What you lose is motion, and this is the part people do not think about until they see the result. A PDF page is static. Every animation, every build, every transition is gone, and each slide becomes a single picture of its final state. If you built a slide where four bullet points appear one click at a time to keep an audience with you, the PDF shows all four at once. For a handout that is exactly right. For a deck somebody else is going to present from, it is a different document than the one you made.
Embedded media goes the same way. A PDF cannot play video or audio, so a slide containing either becomes a still of its poster frame. If the video is the substance of the slide rather than decoration, the PDF is not the format to send — the deck itself is.
Speaker notes are not included either. The PDF contains slides and nothing else. PowerPoint's own export can produce notes pages with the slide above and the notes below, and if that is what you need, that is the tool to use. This conversion produces the deck as an audience sees it.
Fonts are the last thing worth checking, and slides are less forgiving than documents. A text box is a fixed shape, and if the replacement font is wider than the original the text can overflow it or shrink to fit — visible in a way that a reflowed paragraph in a Word document is not. Our server carries metric-compatible replacements for the standard Microsoft fonts, which covers most decks exactly. A presentation built on a corporate typeface installed only on your machine is the case to look at afterwards, especially any slide where text was already a tight fit.
This conversion runs on our server, because reading a PowerPoint file properly means running an office suite. The file is uploaded over an encrypted connection, converted, and deleted as soon as the job finishes.
How to convert
- Drop your PPTX onto this page, or click to choose it.
- It is converted with LibreOffice — one slide to a page, fonts embedded.
- Download the PDF. Your original is deleted as soon as the job finishes.
What to expect
- Quality
- The result is a close reconstruction rather than an exact copy. Check it before relying on it.
- Where it runs
- This conversion is not available yet. The page describes what it will do once the engine ships.
- What can be lost
- Layout is reproduced with metric-compatible substitute fonts. Macros, comments and tracked changes are not carried over.
Questions
- Are my PPTX files uploaded anywhere?
- Yes — this conversion needs software that cannot run in a browser, so the file is uploaded over an encrypted connection. It is deleted as soon as the job finishes, and the result is removed after 60 minutes.
- What happens to animations and transitions?
- They are gone. A PDF page is static, so each slide becomes a single picture of its final state. Anything built to appear one click at a time appears all at once — which is usually fine for a handout and wrong for a deck meant to be presented.
- Are my speaker notes included?
- No. The PDF contains the slides only. If you need notes, PowerPoint's own export offers a notes-pages layout, and that is the tool for it.
- What about embedded video and audio?
- Not carried over — a PDF cannot play them. A slide containing a video becomes a still of its poster frame. If the video is the point of the slide, send the deck itself rather than a PDF.
- Do the fonts stay right?
- Our server carries metric-compatible replacements for the common Microsoft fonts, so a deck in Calibri keeps its text boxes the right shape. A presentation using a corporate font installed only on your machine will be substituted, and on a slide that can push text out of its box — worth checking the result.
- One slide per page?
- Yes, one slide to a page at the deck's own aspect ratio, so a widescreen presentation gives you widescreen pages rather than slides letterboxed onto A4.