PowerPoint to PDF
Make a PDF from a PowerPoint presentation that anyone can open, with one page per slide, ready to email, print or upload. The conversion takes place on your own device, so your slides are never sent anywhere.
How to use it
- Pick one presentation or several (up to 5 at a time), or drop them into the box.
- On your first visit the converter downloads, which is about 78 MB. After that it is ready straight away.
- Download each PDF on its own, or download them all together in one ZIP file.
What the PDF contains
Every visible slide gets its own page, in the same shape as the slides (widescreen or the older 4:3), with text, pictures, tables, charts and backgrounds where they belong. The words stay as genuine text, so the PDF can be searched and copied from. Hidden slides and speaker notes are not included, and handout layouts with several slides to a page are not offered. The converter is LibreOffice, the well-known free office suite, running in your browser. It is not Microsoft PowerPoint, so the PDF may not match one PowerPoint would make, and any fonts your device does not have are swapped for similar-looking ones.
The converter is a full document engine of about 78 MB, the same one used for Word and Excel. It is downloaded first, then the page locks itself and only then opens your presentation. After that it cannot send or fetch anything online, so your slides cannot leave your device even by accident, and pictures or videos linked from elsewhere on the internet are not fetched. Your browser usually keeps the converter, so later conversions start much faster, though it may clear it to save space. Wi-Fi is a good idea. It is designed for computers: on a phone it can be slow or stop, and phone files are capped at 10 MB.
What does not carry over
A PDF page does not move, so animations, transitions, video and sound are lost. Each slide is shown as it looks once everything on it has appeared, and a video appears as its preview picture if the presentation has one. SmartArt diagrams, the colours of PowerPoint's built-in table styles, unusual effects and some chart types may look different. Flick through the PDF before you rely on it.
Presentations with a password cannot be converted, so take the password off in PowerPoint first. Macros are never run.
Questions and answers
Is the result the same as PowerPoint's own Save as PDF?
For most presentations it is close, but not identical, since the converter is LibreOffice rather than Microsoft PowerPoint. If the exact look matters, compare the two before you send the PDF.
What kinds of file can I use?
Files ending in .pptx or .ppt, macro-enabled .pptm files (their macros are not run), slide shows saved as .ppsx or .pps, and .potx templates. OpenDocument presentations (.odp) are handled on ODP to PDF.
Will my speaker notes appear?
No. You get one page for each visible slide, and both hidden slides and speaker notes are left out.
Why is the first conversion slower?
The first time, your browser has to download the converter, about 78 MB. It is usually kept afterwards, and each conversion then takes 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.