PowerPoint to PDF
Slides into shareable PDF decks.
PowerPoint to PDF runs on our secure server
- Encrypted upload
- Your file is uploaded directly to short-lived object storage over a pre-signed URL.
- Safety checks
- Each file is checked before any processor sees it: an empty file, or a file whose type contradicts its name or this tool, is refused. Whether a malware scan runs as well is reported by the live server, and shows here once this page has heard from it.
- Processing
- A separate processing server — not this website — fetches your file from that storage and does the work.
- Download
- You get a signed, expiring link to the result — no account required.
- Auto-delete
- Inputs are wiped right after processing; outputs auto-delete within the retention window.
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About this tool
Convert PowerPoint presentations to PDF, one slide per page — rendered by LibreOffice on a secure server that deletes the input when the job finishes.
Files are processed on a secure server, which deletes the upload when the job ends and serves the result for a limited time.
More details
PowerPoint to PDF takes one presentation, a modern .pptx or a legacy .ppt from PowerPoint 97–2003, and returns a PDF with one slide per page. Each page keeps the slide's shape, so a widescreen deck is not squeezed onto A4 or Letter. Text typed into text boxes stays searchable, copyable text; words inside a picture stay a picture.
Conversion does not happen in your browser. The deck is uploaded over TLS to pdf.xyz's secure server, and LibreOffice exports it there with its default PDF settings, because this page sends the converter no options of its own. The uploaded presentation is deleted when the job finishes, the download link expires after 60 minutes, and the stored copy is erased by a daily storage rule after that. The converter takes decks of up to 50 MB.
Animations do not carry over, so bullet points that appeared one click at a time all show together. LibreOffice's default export leaves speaker notes and hidden slides out. Because LibreOffice rather than Microsoft PowerPoint does the drawing, missing fonts are substituted and elaborate effects can shift slightly, so skim the result before you send it.
When to use it
Send a deck to someone without PowerPoint
A client reading on a phone or a colleague on a Chromebook can open a PDF in whatever viewer they already have, with the visible slides in the order you set.
Hand in slides where a portal wants PDF
When a conference, course or grant site asks for slides as a PDF, convert the deck here, even on a machine with no PowerPoint to export from.
Turn archived .ppt files into PDFs
Decks saved in the pre-2007 binary .ppt format are accepted alongside .pptx, so an old presentation becomes a file that opens without any office suite installed.
Build one handout from several decks
This tool converts one presentation per job. Convert each deck in turn, then combine the resulting PDFs with Merge PDF to hand out a single file for a whole workshop.
How it works
1Add your presentation
Drop one .pptx or .ppt file on the box that reads "Add your document, or browse", or click browse to pick it. The box takes a file at once, and Convert to PDF works only when the status badge next to "Office conversion" says "Secure server"; any other badge comes with a note on the state of the converter under that button.
2Check the file you picked
The file name appears above the button. Choose Remove if you picked the wrong deck and add another; only one presentation goes into each conversion, and there are no settings to set.
3Click Convert to PDF
The button follows the round trip: "Uploading your file…" while the deck goes to our secure server, "Waiting for our server…" while the job is queued, "Converting to PDF…" during the LibreOffice export, and "Downloading the result…" while the finished PDF comes back into this tab.
4Download the PDF
When "Your PDF is ready." appears, click the Download button, which carries the file's name: Quarterly review.pptx comes back as Quarterly review.pdf. The PDF has already been fetched to this page by then, so save it before you close or reload the page.
Common questions
Are my speaker notes included in the PDF?
No, and this page has no option to add them. LibreOffice's default export, which is what runs here, writes the slides only, one per page. Notes pages and slides you have marked as hidden in PowerPoint are not exported, so unhide any slide you want in the PDF before converting.
Why do some slides look different in the PDF?
The result is usually close to PowerPoint, but not pixel for pixel. LibreOffice does the rendering, and a font the converter lacks is swapped for a substitute, which can move line breaks or overflow a text box. Complex effects and some SmartArt may also be drawn differently.
Can I convert Google Slides, Keynote or ODP presentations?
Not directly. Only .pptx and .ppt files are accepted, and any other type is refused before anything is uploaded. From Google Slides, download the deck as a Microsoft PowerPoint file first; from Keynote, export it to PowerPoint, then convert that file here.
What happens to my presentation after I convert it?
It is kept in our secure server's storage while the job runs, including any automatic retry, and deleted when the job finishes, whether it succeeded or failed. The finished PDF's download link expires after 60 minutes; a daily storage rule erases the stored copy after that.
How large a presentation can I convert?
Up to 50 MB. A bigger deck is turned away as soon as you pick it, before anything is uploaded, with a message that states the 50 MB limit. Decks that big are usually carrying photos or embedded video; PowerPoint's Compress Pictures command can shrink the images before you try again.
Why did my conversion fail?
A password-protected deck cannot be converted, because there is no field on this page to type the password into. A locked .pptx is recognised before LibreOffice runs, and the job stops with a message telling you to remove the password in PowerPoint (File > Info > Protect Presentation); save an unprotected copy and convert that. A file too damaged for LibreOffice to open also fails, as does one it cannot finish within 120 seconds or whose PDF comes out larger than our server's output limit. None of those is retried, because the same file would fail the same way again. If the page stops waiting before our server finishes, it shows Keep waiting, which goes back to the same job instead of starting a new one. Our server also rejects any output missing the %PDF header or the closing %%EOF marker, so a broken export never comes back as a download.
How large can my file be?
Up to 50 MB per file.
Which files can PowerPoint to PDF convert?
Files ending in .pptx or .ppt. Our server checks the extension before converting, and a file with any other extension is refused.
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