PowerPoint to PDF
Everything that moved stops moving. Plan for that.
This tool uploads your file for conversion and deletes the temporary copy when the request finishes. What happens to your files
This tool uploads your file to a server to convert it.
Your file is uploaded to a server for this conversion. It is written to a temporary directory, used, and deleted before the response is sent — within seconds, in the same request. It is never written to a database, an object store, or a queue, and it is never logged.
What survives: High for layout. Animations and transitions are flattened, because a PDF has no way to express them.
A quick browser check runs when you start.
How it works
- Read the live upload and retention statement.
- Choose a presentation and start conversion.
- Download the PDF and inspect fonts, media, and slide dimensions.
Key benefit
Creates a portable, fixed-layout copy of the presentation.
Supported files and key limits
Input: PPTX, PPT or ODP. Output: PDF.
Animations, transitions, video, audio, and unavailable fonts cannot behave like the original deck.
Animations flatten
Animations flatten into one static page. If several elements occupy the same position at different animation steps, they may overlap in the PDF. Split important build stages into separate slides first.
A slide with six bullets that appear on click becomes a page with all six showing, which is the easy case. The harder case is a build where each step covers the last. Three text boxes stacked in the same spot can turn into one block of overlapping text. Duplicate the slide once per step before you convert, so each state gets its own page. It takes a couple of minutes and decides whether the handout reads.
Slide size and fonts
Pages take the slide’s shape, so a 16:9 deck should come out 16:9 instead of letter pages with white bars.
Fonts the server lacks are substituted. On a slide, where text sits in a fixed box, that can show up as a heading that wraps onto a second line or spills out of its shape. Decks lean on brand fonts more than documents do, so check the titles first.
Video, audio and notes
A PDF cannot play video or audio, so check any slide that depends on them. Look at the speaker notes in the original before you share either file, since notes are where people leave things they did not mean to publish.
This one uploads your deck
PDFOak uploads the file, converts it, and deletes the temporary copy when the request finishes. If that is the wrong trade for a particular deck, PowerPoint can export a PDF itself from File → Export. The privacy page lists which PDFOak tools upload.
Once it is a PDF, the browser tools apply again. You can pull out the slides you need or compress it for an email limit, and neither uploads anything.