PowerPoint to PDF — One Page Per Slide
Drop a .pptx and get a PDF with one page per slide, at the deck's own aspect ratio — 16:9 stays 16:9 rather than being squeezed onto A4. Titles, bullet text, positioned text boxes and pictures are placed where the slide puts them, and the text stays selectable.
Drop .pptx files here or click to select
Several at once is fine · nothing is uploaded
Why the page size matters
A slide is 13.33 by 7.5 inches for a modern 16:9 deck, or 10 by 7.5 for an older 4:3 one. Neither is A4. Converters that force the slides onto a portrait page either letterbox them into a strip in the middle of a mostly-empty sheet or, worse, stretch them.
This reads the deck's own sldSz and makes every PDF page exactly that size. The result
opens full-bleed, looks right on a screen, and prints correctly on whatever paper you scale it to.
Placeholders, and where converters usually go wrong
Here is the detail that separates a working PowerPoint converter from a broken one. A slide's title and body text usually carry no position of their own. They are placeholders, and their geometry lives in the slide layout the slide was built from — which may itself inherit from the slide master.
A converter that only reads the slide gets nothing, and every placeholder collapses to the top-left corner in a heap. So this follows the whole chain: slide, then its layout, then the master, matching placeholders by type and index. Titles come out where titles go and bullet lists come out where bullet lists go.
Text that has to fit
PowerPoint shrinks text that overflows its box. A converter that ignores that gets overlapping paragraphs, because the author relied on autofit to make a long bullet list work. Each text box is therefore laid out and measured, and if the content is taller than its box the type is scaled down to fit — the same compromise PowerPoint makes.
What comes across
- One page per slide, in the deck's order, at the deck's own dimensions.
- Titles and body text at their real sizes, with bold, italic, underline, colour and font-family mapping.
- Bullet lists with indent levels, and bullets suppressed where the author suppressed them.
- Free-standing text boxes at their exact positions.
- Pictures — PNG and JPEG placed and scaled as the slide places them.
- Grouped shapes are walked into, so text inside a group is not lost.
- Speaker notes, optionally, as extra pages after the slides.
- Slide-number and date fields show their last rendered value.
Not carried over, and honestly these are the limits of a text-first converter:
- Backgrounds, theme fills, gradients and shape geometry. A slide with a dark background and white text will come out as dark text on white — which is legible, but not what you designed. If the look matters more than the text layer, use image mode, or export from PowerPoint.
- Charts, SmartArt, tables, WordArt and icons. Their text may appear; their graphics will not.
- Animations, transitions and embedded video, which a PDF cannot hold anyway.
- Shape rotation is read but not applied.
How to convert PowerPoint to PDF
- Drop your .pptx files. Nothing is uploaded — a client pitch deck stays on your machine.
- Tick the notes box if you want the speaker notes appended as their own pages, which is what you want for a handout or a rehearsal copy.
- Leave the rendering on Automatic. It uses selectable text where it can and page images where the deck's alphabet requires it.
- Click Convert to PDF and check the slide count in the report against the deck.
- Look at a slide with heavy design. If your deck leans on background fills and shapes rather than text, this is the point to decide whether to export from PowerPoint instead.
When to export from PowerPoint instead
For a design-heavy deck going to a client, PowerPoint's own Save as PDF will look better, because it renders every gradient, shape and theme colour with the real fonts. Use this tool when what you need is the content in a fixed, shareable, searchable form — a text-heavy deck, a set of notes, a document you have to attach to something — and when you would rather not upload it to a stranger's server to get there.
FAQ
Does it keep the 16:9 slide size?
Yes. The page size is read from the presentation itself, so a 16:9 deck produces 16:9 pages and a 4:3 deck produces 4:3 pages. Nothing is letterboxed onto A4 or stretched.
Can I include the speaker notes?
Yes — tick the box and the notes are appended as extra pages, labelled by slide number. Only the notes you actually typed are included, not the copy of the slide text that PowerPoint also stores in the notes part.
Why is my background missing?
Because backgrounds, theme fills and shape graphics are not rendered — only text and pictures are. On a dark-themed deck that means white text becomes dark text on a white page, which reads fine but is not your design. Export from PowerPoint if the visual design is the point.
Are charts and SmartArt converted?
No. Both are graphics generated from data, not slide content, and drawing them faithfully is a separate project. Any plain text in the same shape still appears.
Is the text selectable in the PDF?
Yes, by default — real PDF text, so you can search and copy it, and the file stays small. A deck written in an alphabet the built-in PDF fonts cannot draw switches to page images and tells you which script triggered it.
Why do my title and body text land in the right place here but not on other converters?
Because slide placeholders usually store no position — it lives in the slide layout, and sometimes only in the master. This follows that inheritance chain; converters that read only the slide end up piling every placeholder into the corner.
Can it convert an old .ppt file?
No — .ppt is a different, binary format. Open it and save as .pptx first; the tool says so plainly if you drop one.
Is my deck uploaded?
Never. It is unzipped and rendered in your browser tab. See the privacy policy.
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