Folia Tools
All tools › Convert to PDF › PowerPoint to PDF
PowerPoint to PDF
PPTX into PDF, one slide per page. Free, no sign-up.
or drop it here
PowerPoint to PDF runs inside your browser — your file never reaches our servers.
How to convert PowerPoint to PDF
One slide becomes one page, so the deck can be read without PowerPoint.
- Select your deck. A .pptx. A pre-2007 .ppt must be re-saved as .pptx first — PowerPoint does it from Save As.
- Convert. Each slide is laid out as a page.
- Download. A PDF that opens anywhere.
The pages are the shape of your slides
They are not A4. Folia reads the slide size out of the presentation and uses it, so a 16:9 deck gives 960 × 540pt pages — 13.33 × 7.5 inches — and an older 4:3 deck gives 720 × 540. That is right for reading on screen; to get it onto paper, use the fit-to-page setting in your print dialog. Each text shape is drawn at the position and box width recorded on the slide, at its own point size, weight and colour, so a text-driven slide lands close to where it sat in PowerPoint. A placeholder that takes its position from the layout has none of its own, and falls back to a default content box instead.
Only text in the slide's own shapes is drawn. Pictures, charts, tables and SmartArt are stored as graphic frames rather than shapes, so none of them appears — including the text inside a table. Nor do background fills, or anything inherited from the layout or master: logos, footers, slide numbers. The note under the download says when images were dropped. Bullet characters are not drawn either, so a bulleted list arrives as plain lines of text. Speaker notes are not included and there is no notes-page mode, and text running past the bottom edge of a slide is cut off there rather than continuing onto another page.
What it is actually good for
Reading and circulating the words. A deck someone sent you, opened on a machine with no PowerPoint; a text-only handout of a deck you wrote; a record of what each slide said, for a file or an email thread. What it will not give you is a picture of the deck: if the slides are designed rather than written — full-bleed photographs, diagrams, a branded template — the result is text on white, and it is better to know that here than after the download.
Turning a PDF back into an editable deck is PDF to PowerPoint. If you are circulating a draft, Add watermark stamps every page of the converted file.
Questions
Why is this one better on Folia Cloud?
Reproducing PowerPoint’s layout faithfully needs a real rendering engine, which a browser tab cannot provide. The free in-browser version keeps your text and images with approximate positioning; Folia Cloud produces the faithful conversion.
Will the slides come out in the order I show them in?
Usually, but check. The converter takes the slide parts in the numeric order of their filenames, which is the order the slides were created in. PowerPoint records the running order separately and that list is not read, so a deck whose slides have been dragged into a new order can convert in the old one. Glance at the first few pages before you send it.
Are speaker notes included?
No — only the text on the slides themselves. Notes live in a separate part of the .pptx that this converter does not read. For a notes handout, use PowerPoint's own print dialog with Notes Pages selected and save that as a PDF.
Can I convert a Google Slides or Keynote deck?
Export it as .pptx first. In Google Slides, File then Download then Microsoft PowerPoint; in Keynote, File then Export To then PowerPoint. The converter reads .pptx packages, so a pre-2007 .ppt has to be re-saved too.
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. Every tool on this site runs inside your browser, using the same engine as the Folia desktop app. Your file is read from your disk into your browser’s memory, processed there, and handed back as a download. It never crosses the internet, so there is nothing for us to store, leak or hand over.
Is there a file size limit?
We impose none. The only ceiling is your own device’s memory, which differs from one computer to another — so we read what your browser reports about this machine and show the resulting limit on the page. Light tools like merge and rotate handle far more than heavy ones like OCR, which must render every page. For anything larger, Folia for Desktop has no limit at all.
Is it really free? Do I need an account?
Yes, and no. Every tool is free and unlimited, with no watermark and no sign-up. Ads pay for the site, and your own computer does the work, which costs us nothing. Signing in with a paid Folia plan simply removes the ads.