Slides anyone can open
After a parents' meeting, a thesis defense or a sales pitch, someone always asks, "Could you send us the slides?" A PowerPoint file isn't the handiest thing to pass around: it is often large, it needs the right program, and on another computer the fonts and layout can look different. A PDF opens on any device, looks the way it did on yours and can't be altered by accident.
What the PDF looks like
PowerPoint to PDF accepts PPT, PPTX and ODP files up to 95 MB. Each slide becomes one page, with its images, charts, tables and text. The text stays real text, so it can be searched and copied. There is no cap on the number of slides – only the file size matters.
What a PDF can't carry
A PDF is a still document, so anything that moves or plays stays behind:
- animations and transitions are dropped, and each slide appears in its final state;
- embedded video and audio can't be played;
- speaker notes are left out;
- hidden slides are not shown.
If a slide only makes sense with its animation, rearrange it before converting so everything is visible at once.
After converting
Photo-heavy decks make heavy PDFs. If yours won't fit in an email, shrink it with Compress PDF. Need one slide as a picture? Open the PDF in PDF to JPG and select just that page. Slides you'd rather not share can be taken out with Remove pages.
Server processing
LibreOffice converts the presentation on our server. The file is kept in a temporary folder only during the conversion and is deleted the moment it ends, together with the resulting PDF.