ODP to PDF
ODP is the standard slide show format for LibreOffice Impress and OpenOffice, and PowerPoint can save in it too. This tool gives you a PDF with one page for each slide, which anyone can open, print or send on, and it all happens on your own device.
How to use it
- Pick an ODP file, or several at once (TeddyPDF handles up to 5 files at a time for free), or drop them onto the box.
- On your first visit the converter has to download, which is about 78 MB. On later visits it is ready almost at once.
- Save the PDFs one by one, or grab them all in a single ZIP file.
What the PDF contains
Every visible slide becomes one page, sized to match the slides themselves, complete with its text, pictures, tables, charts, shapes and backgrounds. The words remain genuine text, so you can search the PDF and copy from it. Hidden slides are skipped, and you are told how many were skipped; if all of them are hidden, the page says so instead of producing a blank PDF. Speaker notes and comments are not included, and handout layouts are not offered.
A PDF has no room for animations or slide transitions. Where a slide holds a video or sound, you will see its preview image if the file stores one, and an empty space if it does not; the media itself never goes into the PDF. Form buttons and boxes placed on slides may be missing, and dates that fill themselves in, such as one in a slide footer, may appear with the month first.
Accuracy, limits and the first download
The converter is LibreOffice, the free office suite whose own format is ODP, working inside your browser. Slide shows saved by other programs, such as PowerPoint, may look slightly different, curved decorative lettering (Fontwork) may shift a little, and a missing font is swapped for a similar one, which can alter the layout, so look over the PDF before relying on it. .otp templates are handled in the same way as ordinary files. Password-protected presentations cannot be opened, so save a copy without the password first, and macros never run. The converter is fetched from this website first, then the page cuts off its own internet access before your file is opened, which also means pictures, videos or data linked from elsewhere online are not fetched.
The engine is about 78 MB and also powers the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ODT, RTF and ODS to PDF tools. Browsers usually keep it, so later runs are much faster, though they may delete it to save space. Wi-Fi is advisable. It is made for computers; a phone may be slow or give up, and phones can only take files up to 10 MB.
Questions and answers
What is an ODP file?
ODP stands for OpenDocument Presentation, an open standard for slide shows. LibreOffice Impress and OpenOffice use it by default, and Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides can read and write it.
Will my speaker notes appear in the PDF?
They will not. You get one page for each visible slide, and hidden slides, speaker notes and comments are all left behind.
What about a PowerPoint file?
This tool is for ODP slide shows. For .pptx and .ppt files, go to PowerPoint to PDF instead.
Why does the first conversion take a while?
On that first run your browser has to fetch the converter, which is roughly 78 MB. It is normally kept afterwards, so later files take only a few seconds.
Does TeddyPDF upload my file?
No. Your browser does all the work, on your own device. Before it opens your file, this page shuts off its own ability to send or fetch anything, and your browser holds it to that. Try it: once the page has loaded, turn off your Wi-Fi and the tool still works. How the lock works.