PowerPoint to PDF without uploading the slides The popular PowerPoint to PDF sites take the presentation onto their servers and limit how many files a free account may convert. Decks are often the files people least want to hand over: a pitch with next year's numbers, a board update, lecture slides before they are released, a client proposal. This page draws every slide in your browser and writes the PDF there, so there is no upload, no daily limit and no watermark, and a whole folder of presentations can go in at once. It is free to use, with no account and no upload limit, and it runs entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded, and while the page stays open, a feature you have already used keeps working offline.
The slides are drawn by the same renderer as the site's PowerPoint Viewer , which reads the file with pptxtojson, an open-source PowerPoint reader. Each slide is then photographed into the PDF page as a high-resolution picture, and the words on it are written over the picture as invisible text in the same places, so the PDF can be searched and its text selected and copied. Web links on the slides stay clickable.
What you can do Convert .pptx, .ppsx (slide shows), .potx (templates) and .pptm files to PDF, from PowerPoint 2007 to Microsoft 365, Google Slides, Keynote and LibreOffice exports Drop many presentations at once: each becomes its own PDF, with progress for each file, and Save all puts them in one ZIP One slide a page at the slide's own size, so 16:9 decks give 16:9 pages Handouts with 2, 4, 6 or 9 slides a page on A4 or US Letter, turned to whichever way gives the bigger slides Notes pages: each slide with its speaker notes written underneath, running onto extra pages when the notes are long Leave hidden slides out, as PowerPoint does, or include them Searchable, copyable text and clickable web links in the PDF Slides in the order they are arranged in the presentation Macro-enabled .pptm files are read safely: the macros are never run How to convert PowerPoint to PDF Choose the Pages setting first: one slide a page, handouts, or notes pages. For handouts and notes pages, choose the Paper. Drop the presentations onto the page, or click browse and choose one or more. They convert one after another, each with its own progress bar. Press Save PDF beside a finished file, or Save all as a ZIP when there are several. Stop halts the conversion under way and the ones still to come; the PDFs already made are kept, and Try again picks a stopped file up again. If you change a setting afterwards, press Convert again to remake the finished PDFs with it. Pictures with searchable text, or real text from the print dialog The PDFs this page saves hold each slide as a picture (a JPEG at twice screen resolution on High, about 1.4 times on Standard) with the words laid invisibly on top. That makes the slide look in the PDF exactly as it was drawn here, works the same in every browser and for any number of files, and still lets you search, select and copy the text. What it does not give is text that stays perfectly crisp at very high zoom, and the file is larger than a text-only PDF - typically 100 to 300 KB a slide on High, more for slides full of photos.
For a PDF whose text is real text, press Print… beside a converted file and choose "Save as PDF" (or "Microsoft Print to PDF") as the printer. The browser's PDF printer writes the words as text and the shapes as drawings, one slide a page at the slide's size. It works one presentation at a time, and handouts and notes pages are not available that way.
What is kept and what is not Kept: text with its fonts, sizes, colours, bullets and spacing; shapes, lines and arrows; pictures with their crops; tables; slide backgrounds and the layout and master design behind each slide; charts, drawn from their saved numbers; SmartArt, drawn from the ready-made shapes PowerPoint saves alongside it; equations, from their saved picture or text.
Changed or left out: a font the presentation uses that your device does not have is replaced by a similar one, so line breaks can fall a little differently. Animations and transitions do not exist on paper, so each slide shows its finished state. An embedded video becomes a dark box marked "Video", and sound is left out. Pictures stored as Windows metafiles (EMF or WMF) cannot be drawn by a browser and appear as a labelled box. Chart types the renderer does not draw are shown as a simple line chart of the same numbers. Comments are not included. The page lists what applied to each file under its name.
Old .ppt files A .ppt file from PowerPoint 97-2003 is an older binary format, and this page reads the .pptx format PowerPoint has used since 2007; .ppt support isn't here yet. The page recognises a .ppt and says so rather than failing. PowerPoint, or LibreOffice Impress (free), opens a .ppt and can save it as .pptx, which then converts here.
Questions
Can I convert several PowerPoint files to PDF at once? Yes. Drop or choose as many .pptx files as you like; they are converted one after another, each into its own PDF named after the presentation. Save all puts them in one ZIP; files with the same name get (2), (3) added. There is no daily limit because nothing is sent anywhere.
Is the text in the PDF searchable? Yes. Each slide is a picture in the PDF, with its words written invisibly on top in the same places, so Ctrl+F finds them and you can select and copy them. Text in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts is included; text in other scripts, such as Chinese or Arabic, shows in the slide picture but is not searchable, and the page says so under the file. For real text throughout, use Print… and Save as PDF.
How do I print PowerPoint handouts with several slides on a page? Set Pages to Handouts with 2, 4, 6 or 9 slides a page and choose A4 or US Letter, then convert. Each slide gets a thin border, in reading order across the rows. Print the PDF as normal; most printers can also put two PDF pages on one sheet for even smaller handouts.
Can I save a PowerPoint with speaker notes as a PDF? Yes: set Pages to Notes pages. Each slide goes at the top of a page with its speaker notes below; long notes carry on to an extra page headed with the slide number. A presentation without notes gives pages with the slides only.
Are hidden slides included in the PDF? Not unless you tick Include hidden slides. PowerPoint leaves hidden slides out of its own PDF export by default, and this page does the same; the note under each file says how many were left out. Why is the PDF bigger than the PowerPoint file? Each slide is stored as a detailed picture, while the .pptx stores text and shapes, which take very little room. Choose Picture quality Standard for a smaller PDF, or use Compress PDF afterwards. A PDF made with Print… and Save as PDF keeps text as text and is usually smaller.
Is a .pptm file with macros safe to convert here? Yes. The page reads the slides from the file and never runs its macros; they are not even looked at. The PDF contains only the slides.