Do animations and transitions survive?

No — PDF has no animation. Each slide is exported in its final state with all animated elements visible.

What about embedded videos?

A still frame (the poster image) is shown where the video was.

Can I get a handout with several slides per page?

Yes. Choose two or four slides per page in the options.

PDF Tools

PowerPoint to PDF

Turn a deck into a PDF handout that opens on any phone. Choose slides only or slides with speaker notes.

Processed on our EU server over HTTPS and deleted automatically within 1 hour.

Drop PowerPoint (PPTX), PowerPoint 97–2003 (PPT), ODP file here

or click to browse · paste from clipboard · up to 300 MB

Select file

Options

Include speaker notes

Layout

Why convert PowerPoint (PPTX) to PDF

A 40 MB PPTX does not open on most phones and requires PowerPoint or a compatible app. As a PDF it is a fraction of the size and displays the same everywhere, animations aside.

Slides are exported at their designed aspect ratio (16:9 or 4:3) as vector pages: text stays selectable and diagrams stay sharp when zoomed, unlike screenshots of slides.

How it works

Drop PowerPoint (PPTX), PowerPoint 97–2003 (PPT), ODP files onto the box above, click it to browse, or paste from the clipboard.
Adjust the options if you need to — the defaults suit most cases.
Press Convert. The file is uploaded securely, converted, and the result is offered for download.
Download the PDF.

About the formats

PowerPoint (PPTX) · Microsoft PowerPoint presentation · .pptx

The current PowerPoint format: slides with layouts, animations, speaker notes and embedded media.

Converting PPTX to PDF exports one page per slide and drops animations and transitions.
Fonts not embedded in the file are substituted on other machines, which can reflow text boxes.
Speaker notes are not included in a standard PDF export.

PowerPoint 97–2003 (PPT) · Legacy PowerPoint presentation · .ppt

The binary PowerPoint format used until 2007; opens in modern PowerPoint but not in most web viewers.

PPT files cannot store newer features like SmartArt natively.
Google Slides converts PPT on import.
Macros may be embedded, so some systems block PPT attachments.

ODP · OpenDocument presentation · .odp

The LibreOffice Impress presentation format, an open standard that PowerPoint can also open.

ODP supports slide masters, notes and transitions like PPTX.
Exporting ODP to PDF preserves slide layout exactly; animations are dropped.
ODP is part of the OpenDocument ISO 26300 family.

PDF · Portable Document Format · .pdf

The fixed-layout document standard: looks the same on every device and printer, which is why forms, invoices, contracts and reports are shared as PDF.

A PDF can contain vector text, embedded fonts, images, form fields, annotations and digital signatures.
Scanned PDFs are just pictures of pages; they need OCR before the text can be searched or copied.
PDF is an open ISO standard (ISO 32000) since 2008.