A PDF is the safe way to share a presentation. It opens on any device, the fonts cannot go missing on the other end, and nobody accidentally edits your slides. The PowerPoint to PDF Converter makes that PDF in your browser, and adds a few things PowerPoint's own export hides away, such as handouts and notes pages. Here is what it draws, what it skips, and how to use the options.
Master, layout, then slide.
A PowerPoint slide is built in layers. The slide master holds the theme, background and logo; the layout adds placeholders for titles and content; the slide itself holds your text and pictures. The converter reads all three, so a logo placed on the master shows on every slide and title sizes follow the theme.
Text boxes and placeholders keep their fonts, sizes, colours, bullets and numbering, including sizes inherited from the master. Pictures keep their cropping. Rectangles, rounded boxes, circles, arrows, stars and custom freeform shapes are drawn as vector shapes with their fills, gradients and outlines. Tables keep their cell text, fills and borders, and theme colours are resolved, including lighter and darker tints.
Printing without wasting paper.
One slide per page gives a PDF at the presentation's own size, which suits screens and email. For printing, set Slides per page. Two per page stacks slides on portrait A4, leaving room for notes beside them. Four per page puts a 2 by 2 grid on landscape A4, and six per page fills a 2 by 3 grid on portrait A4.
Each slide is scaled to fit its cell without changing its shape, and a thin grey frame marks its edges, like the handouts PowerPoint prints. Speaker notes are only added in the one slide per page layout, so pick that when the notes matter more than saving paper.
Two options people ask for.
Tick Add speaker notes after each slide and every slide with notes is followed by a page containing them. It is a simple way to send a presenter's script along with the deck, or to review notes on a tablet.
Hidden slides are skipped by default, which is almost always what you want for a shared PDF. Untick Leave out hidden slides to include backup slides as well.
Still pages only.
A PDF shows each slide as it looks when it first appears. Animations, transitions, audio and video do not carry over; a video shows its poster frame if one is saved. Charts and SmartArt are drawn by PowerPoint from stored data, and this converter does not rebuild them, so they are left out and listed in the notes under the result. Shadows, glow and 3D effects are not drawn, and rare preset shapes become rectangles.
If a chart must appear, copy it in PowerPoint and paste it back as a picture before converting. Pictures always come through.
Why a title can wrap differently.
Slides are drawn with the fonts installed on the device doing the conversion. Office themes use fonts such as Calibri, Aptos or Segoe UI, which are present on most Windows computers but often missing on phones, Macs without Office and Linux. When a font is missing, a close match is used, and a long title can wrap onto a second line where it fitted on one before.
For the most faithful result, convert on the computer where the deck was made, or use Print / Save as PDF there. If you often share decks, choosing common fonts such as Arial or Georgia in your theme avoids the issue altogether.
Batch jobs and combined files.
Add several .pptx files and each becomes its own PDF, downloaded together as a ZIP. Tick Combine all files into one PDF to merge them in the order shown, which is handy for a conference pack or a course with one deck per module. Use the arrow buttons to change the order before converting.
Pick the output that suits the reader.
Convert to PDF draws each page as a sharp image with an invisible text layer, so the PDF looks identical everywhere and can still be searched for Latin-script words. Print / Save as PDF uses your browser's print dialog instead, which keeps real, selectable text in any script and usually a smaller file.
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