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PPT to PDF

A PDF is what you send when the other side may not have PowerPoint — and what you print when the projector fails. This page builds one out of your .pptx without the file ever leaving the device: the archive is unpacked in the browser, and the PDF is written there too.

A .pptx file — the modern PowerPoint format.

What changes: the built-in font replaces the presentation’s own, and shadows, gradients and animations are dropped. Tables, charts and SmartArt do not carry over at all — the page says so after the file is built, listing exactly what was lost.

The presentation is not uploaded anywhere: the archive is unpacked in your browser and the PDF is written there too. Text stays selectable — it is not a picture of a slide.

Nearby: Excel to PDF · Word to PDF · Merge PDF · Compress PDF

How to use

  1. Choose the .pptx presentation.
  2. Press the button and watch the slides go by.
  3. Look through the pages, read the list of what did not carry over, and download the PDF.

Good to know

What survives and what does not

Text and its position survive, and so do ordinary pictures — on a real presentation that is nine slides out of ten. What does not: the presentation’s own fonts (one built-in font replaces them), shadows, gradients and animations. Tables, charts and SmartArt are not carried over at all. The page lists exactly what was lost after it builds the file, instead of letting you find out later.

Why the text is not a picture

The easy way to convert slides is to draw each one as an image and staple the images into a PDF. It looks closer to the original — and it gives you a document you cannot search, cannot copy from and cannot read with a screen reader, at several times the weight. Here the text is written as text and stays selectable; the price is the font, and that price is stated up front.

Frequently asked questions

Is my presentation uploaded?

No. The .pptx is a zip archive, and it is unpacked in your browser; the PDF is written there as well. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Why do the fonts look different?

Because the presentation’s own fonts live on the machine it was made on, not in the file. One built-in font is used instead, so the lines may wrap differently — text that no longer fits its box is shrunk rather than cut off.

My old .ppt file is refused. Why?

The old .ppt format is not an archive of XML at all — it is a different, binary format. Open it in PowerPoint or Google Slides once and save as .pptx.

What happens to tables and charts?

They do not carry over, and the page says so with the number of slides affected. If those matter, print those slides from PowerPoint itself.

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