Why share slides as PDF
A PowerPoint file needs PowerPoint, or a good copy of it, to look right. Sent as is, it can open with missing fonts, shifted text and broken layouts, and it is often too large for email. A PDF opens instantly on any phone or laptop, keeps every slide exactly as designed and cannot be edited by the recipient. It is the usual format for pitch decks sent to investors, proposals sent to clients, lecture slides shared with students and company profiles submitted with tenders.
What is kept and what is not
Each slide becomes one PDF page, in order, with text, shapes, images, charts and tables kept. Text stays selectable and searchable. Some things cannot exist in a PDF: animations and slide transitions are dropped, and embedded video or audio is left out, so a slide with a video shows only its preview frame. Speaker notes are not included. Hidden slides are skipped. If you need handouts with notes, export them from PowerPoint itself.
How the conversion works
Your presentation is opened by LibreOffice Impress on our own server and exported to PDF. Common Microsoft fonts such as Calibri and Arial are matched by open fonts with identical letter widths, so text fits its boxes as it did in PowerPoint. Arabic and other right-to-left text is supported. Rare decorative fonts are replaced by similar ones, which can change the look slightly, so check slides that use them.
Your presentation and the daily limit
A PowerPoint file needs a full office engine to render, so your deck is sent over an encrypted connection to our own server running LibreOffice Impress, never to an outside service. Pitch decks and tender documents are often confidential: the file sits only in temporary memory, is removed once the PDF is back with you, and its name is not recorded. Decks can be up to 20 MB; if yours is bigger, compress the pictures in PowerPoint first. Each successful conversion uses one of 20 free daily conversions shared with our other Office tools. Take off any password before uploading; embedded macros are not run.