PPT to PDF Converter
Turn old PowerPoint .ppt decks into landscape PDFs, one slide per page, that open on any laptop, tablet or phone without PowerPoint.
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Convert the whole document or only some pages, slides or sheets.
Pages or slides to keep, e.g. 1-3, 5, 8-10. Numbers refer to the original document.
Source margins keep the document's own layout. Narrow is 12.7 mm, normal 25.4 mm, wide 50.8 mm left and right.
Excel, ODS and Numbers files: convert every sheet, or only the one that was open when the file was saved.
JPEG quality for photos inside the document. 90 looks identical to the source; lower it to make the PDF smaller.
Leave empty for no password. If set, the PDF asks for it before opening. Not available with PDF/A.
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Each slide becomes one landscape page, in its final state: text, pictures and charts stay, while motion and sound are left behind.
Old decks, new readers
The .ppt extension belongs to PowerPoint 97 to 2003. Lecture slides, training decks and conference talks from those years are still passed around in that format, and they cause trouble on modern devices: phone apps refuse them, web viewers lose the fonts, and a recent PowerPoint opens them in compatibility mode with warnings about features that may change.
A PDF ends that guessing. Every slide becomes a page that looks the same in a browser, in a phone's file viewer or on a classroom projector, and nobody needs PowerPoint, Keynote or an Office subscription to read it. It is also the format most learning platforms, conference sites and print shops ask for when they collect slides from speakers.
The file usually gets easier to share too. A deck that went back and forth between versions of PowerPoint often carries unused slide masters and leftover media; the PDF contains only the slides that are actually shown.
PPT
PowerPoint 97-2003 presentation
The binary slide format PowerPoint used before PPTX. It supports slides, transitions and animations in an older closed structure. Modern presentation apps still read it, and it often turns up in archived lectures and older company decks.
- Animation
- Vendor format
PDF document
Adobe's Portable Document Format from 1993, now an open ISO standard. It fixes text, images and layout so a page looks the same on every screen and printer, and it can carry forms, links and transparency. Every operating system and browser can open it, though editing the content is harder than in a word processor.
- Transparency
- Still images only
- Open standard
Why convertA .ppt deck is made to be presented, with builds, timings and media; the PDF is made to be read or printed. Convert when people will study the slides on their own, or when the deck has to be handed in, rather than shown from a laptop.
Choosing what goes into the PDF
This page starts in landscape, which matches almost every slide. Most decks need nothing else, but three settings change what the reader receives. Switch between them below to see what each one does.
Whatever you pick applies to every deck in the batch. If one presentation needs notes and the others do not, convert it on its own. The binary .ppt layout is documented by Microsoft as MS-PPT, which is what lets software other than PowerPoint read these files at all; very old decks with unusual embedded objects may still show a placeholder image where an object could not be drawn.
The default: one slide per landscape page, the way the audience saw it. This is what to send after a talk or upload to a course page.
- Speaker notes are left out
- Hyperlinks stay clickable
- Slide numbers match the original
Turn on Include speaker notes and each slide is printed with its notes underneath. Useful for a colleague who has to give your talk, or for study material.
- Notes print below their own slide
- Off by default on this page
Choose Page range and type slide numbers to keep, for example 1-10 for the first session of a long workshop.
- Ranges and single slides can be mixed
- Numbers refer to the original deck
How to convert PPT to PDF
Add the slide decks
Drop .ppt files on the box above, or press Choose Files. Newer .pptx and .pps files work as well.
Pick slides and notes
Landscape is already set. Under Advanced settings, choose a Page range or turn on Include speaker notes if you need them.
Convert and download
Press Convert to PDF and save each deck as a PDF, or download all of them at once.
PPT to PDF questions
Do PowerPoint animations and transitions work in the PDF?
No. A PDF page is a still image of the slide in its final state, so every animated object appears at once and transitions are dropped. Slides that build up step by step show the completed slide.
What happens to videos and sounds in a .ppt file?
They cannot play in a PDF. The slide shows the poster frame of a video, or the speaker icon for a sound, where PowerPoint placed it.
Can I print three slides per page as a handout?
The PDF has one slide per page. To print handouts, open the PDF in your reader's print dialog and choose several pages per sheet; most readers offer 2, 4, 6 or 9.
Why are my old slides square-looking with bars on the sides?
Decks made in older PowerPoint versions are usually 4:3, while most screens are wide. The PDF keeps the slide's own shape; the bars come from the viewer, not from the file.
Do links in my slides still work in the PDF?
Yes. Links to web pages stay clickable in the PDF. Action buttons that start a program or play a sound only work inside PowerPoint, so in the PDF they are plain shapes.
Can I convert only the slides for one session?
Yes. Choose Page range under Pages & content and type the slide numbers, for example 1-12 or 3, 7-9. The numbers match the slide numbers in PowerPoint.
Sharing the PDF, large or small
Slides full of photos make large PDFs, because every picture is carried over. If the result is too heavy for an email or a course upload, lower Image quality under Advanced settings before converting, or pass the finished file through Compress PDF. The size depends mostly on the pictures, not on the number of slides, so a long deck of text and charts can be lighter than a short photo album.
The reason a PDF opens everywhere is that it is no longer one company's format. Adobe's PDF became an ISO standard, and an archival variant, PDF/A, was defined for files that must stay readable for decades. Both are listed below; pick PDF/A at the top of the tool when a conference archive or a university repository asks for it.
How PDF became an open standard
When to keep the .ppt instead
A PDF is a poor replacement for a deck you will present again or keep editing. If you plan to update the slides, open them in a current PowerPoint and save them as .pptx, the newer format, so they stop opening in compatibility mode. For presentations that came from Keynote, the Document Converter turns .key files into .pptx.
The two formats also work well side by side. Keep the .ppt or .pptx as the master copy, and convert again after each change, so the PDF you hand out always matches the version you presented. The Convert to PDF page takes Word and Excel files in the same batch, which helps when a talk comes with handouts or data tables.
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