PowerPoint to PDF
One page per slide, drawn rather than photographed, so the text stays text.
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or click to choose from your deviceAccepted: PPTX
Up to 3 files per runUp to 20 MB per file5 runs per dayFree PDFs end with a small “Made with nouplo.com” lineRemove limits with Pro✓ Works offline
Your files stay on your device
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and you can even turn off your internet connection before you start.
Example
Example: three lesson decks turned into PDFs on a school laptop without PowerPoint
A high-school teacher posts this week’s slides for students as PDFs from a school laptop with no PowerPoint: unit-4-intro.pptx (24 widescreen slides, two hidden as spares), unit-4-lab.pptx (18 slides) and an older review deck in 4:3 with a clip-art picture saved as EMF. All three go in one run.
- Add the three .pptx files together: each becomes its own PDF, named after its deck.
- Read the notes under each file before posting: they say what was left out and why.
| In the deck | In the PDF |
|---|---|
| 24 slides, 2 of them hidden | 22 pages; a note says the 2 hidden slides were left out, as PowerPoint does |
| Widescreen 16:9 slides | pages of 960 × 540 pt, 13.33 × 7.5 in |
| Older 4:3 slides | pages of 720 × 540 pt, 10 × 7.5 in |
| Titles, body text, bullet levels | real text: students can search and copy it |
| Photos in JPEG and PNG | in the same place and size |
| Clip art saved as EMF | missing; a note gives the number and format, to re-save it as PNG |
| Simple tables | redrawn with their cells and text |
| A chart, SmartArt, shadows, gradients | left out rather than imitated |
| Speaker notes | not in the PDF |
unit-4-intro.pdf, unit-4-lab.pdf and the review deck’s PDF. Three files is exactly one free run. For the deck with the chart, export from PowerPoint at home (File → Export → PDF) if the chart matters; nothing was uploaded on the school laptop.
How it works
- Add one or more .pptx files. Several at once is fine — each becomes its own PDF.
- Wait while the slides are drawn. A long deck with many photographs takes a moment.
- Download the PDF and check it before you send it on.
- For a deck full of charts or SmartArt, export from PowerPoint itself instead — see below.
Frequently asked questions
- What comes across, and what does not?
- Backgrounds, text with its size, weight, colour and alignment, bullet levels, pictures and simple tables. What does not: charts, SmartArt, gradients, shadows, WordArt and animation. Those need a drawing engine that a web page does not have, and they are left out rather than drawn badly.
- Can I select and search the text afterwards?
- Yes. Each slide is drawn as real text on a PDF page rather than turned into a picture, so the PDF can be searched, copied out of and printed at any size.
- It does not look exactly like my slides.
- Then export it from PowerPoint (File → Export → PDF), which uses the same drawing engine that showed you the slides. This tool is for when you do not have PowerPoint to hand and need a readable PDF now.
- Does it handle the old .ppt format?
- No. .ppt is a different, binary format; open it in PowerPoint or LibreOffice once and save it as .pptx.
- Are hidden slides and speaker notes included?
- No. Hidden slides are left out, as PowerPoint’s own PDF export leaves them out, and a note under the file says how many. Speaker notes are not put in the PDF.
- What page size will the PDF have?
- The slides’ own: a widescreen 16:9 deck gives pages of 13.33 × 7.5 in (960 × 540 pt), an older 4:3 deck 10 × 7.5 in. To print several slides on one sheet of Letter, run the PDF through Several pages per sheet afterwards.
- Is my deck uploaded?
- No. It is unzipped and drawn in your browser, which matters when the deck is a client’s or an unpublished set of numbers.