PowerPoint to PDF
Convert a .pptx to PDF, one slide per page or as a handout.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded, and you can verify that in your browser's network tab. Verify it yourself: open your browser's network tab and watch. You will see one small request asking whether you have tasks left - a tool name and a hash, never the file.
What this does
This converts a presentation's content, not its design. Slide titles, bullet text, images and speaker notes are read and laid out as a document; themes, master-slide backgrounds, shape positions, animations, transitions, SmartArt and charts are not reproduced. If you need a deck that looks the way it looks on screen, PowerPoint's own export is the right tool. If you need the text of a deck as something readable and printable, which is what most people are actually after, this gives you that, one slide per page or two, four or six to a sheet.
Use it for handouts you can print and write on, for sending a deck to somebody who should not be editing it, for filing a presentation somewhere it will still open in ten years, or for reading through a colleague's slides on a device with no PowerPoint on it.
How it works
- Drop your .pptx files onto this page. Up to 20 at a time, each up to 150 MB.
- Choose the layout: one slide per page, or 2, 4 or 6 slides on each handout sheet.
- Turn on include speaker notes if each slide's notes should be printed underneath it.
- Leave slide numbers on so a printed handout can be talked through by number.
- Set the paper size and orientation for the one-slide-per-page version. Landscape is the default because it matches the shape of a slide.
- Press Convert and the PDF downloads.
Slide order comes from the presentation's own relationship list, never from the file names inside the .pptx. Something called slide1.xml is frequently not the first slide - PowerPoint reuses those numbers as slides are added, deleted and reordered - and sorting them numerically is precisely how a converted deck comes out shuffled. Reading the presentation's stated ordering costs nothing and is the difference between a deck and a jumble.
Handouts are built by converting to one slide per page first, then laying that result out 2, 4 or 6 up. Doing it in that order guarantees the handout matches the full-size version page for page, which is the entire point of a handout. Handout sheets are always A4 - landscape for two per sheet, portrait for four and six - with a border drawn round each slide so the grid stays visible where slides have white edges.
Because the handout stage redraws each page as artwork on a new sheet, hyperlinks do not survive it. One slide per page keeps them. If the links in your deck matter, convert at one slide per page, and reach for Pages per sheet separately only when you have decided you can lose them.
Speaker notes are off by default and are printed under their slide when you turn them on. They are read from the notes part of the file, so everything typed into the notes pane comes through - including the things people forget are sitting in there. Read a converted deck before handing it round.
Text is set at 14 point for one slide per page and 10 point for handouts. A slide's own font sizes are not reproduced, because the model this conversion flows through carries structure rather than styling: a title is a heading, a bullet is a list item, and typography is decided once for every conversion on this site rather than guessed at per slide.
What this tool cannot do
- Themes, master-slide backgrounds, shape positions and slide layouts are not reproduced. The deck's text, images and notes convert; its design does not.
- Charts, SmartArt and other drawings are not converted, because rendering them would mean implementing PowerPoint's own renderer.
- Animations, transitions and build stages are ignored. A slide that builds in five steps becomes one page showing all five.
Questions people ask
- Why does the PDF not look like my slides?
- Because this converts the content rather than the design. A slide's appearance comes from its theme, its master, its placeholder geometry and the exact position of every shape, and reproducing that means implementing PowerPoint's renderer inside a browser tab. Titles, bullet text, images and notes are what you get. For a deck that looks identical, use PowerPoint's own Export to PDF, or Google Slides' download as PDF.
- How do I print several slides on one page?
- Set the layout to 2, 4 or 6 slides per sheet. The handout is built from the one-slide-per-page conversion, so it matches it exactly, and the sheets are A4 with a border round each slide. Two per sheet stays comfortable to read; six is for following along and finding your place rather than for reading.
- Can I include my speaker notes?
- Yes, turn on include speaker notes and each slide's notes are printed under it. They are off by default because a deck is shared far more often than it is presented from, and notes written to yourself are not always meant for whoever receives the file.
- What happens to animations and transitions?
- They are ignored, as they are in any PDF - the format has no way to express them. A slide that builds in five steps becomes a single page showing all five at once. If the intermediate states matter, duplicate the slide in PowerPoint so each stage is its own slide, then convert.
- Is my presentation uploaded?
- No. The .pptx is unzipped and read in a Web Worker inside your browser, and the PDF is composed there as well. Decks tend to travel with more than their author remembers - notes, an old version of a slide, a picture cropped rather than trimmed - and none of that goes anywhere, because none of the file does.