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PowerPoint to PDF
PPTX into PDF, one slide per page. Free, no sign-up.
Converting a deck to PDF turns one slide into one page, so it can be read and printed without PowerPoint. Text, images and slide layout come across; animations and transitions do not. It is free and needs no account, and the conversion runs in your browser.
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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. A slide is mostly inherited — a title takes its position, its 44pt size and its colour from the slide layout and master, a themed rectangle takes its blue from the theme — and Folia resolves that chain the way PowerPoint does. Backgrounds, placeholder geometry, theme colours, style references, bullets and numbering, alignment and autofit all come through, so the converted page is laid out like the slide, not like a transcript of it.
Pictures are embedded at their position and size, tables keep their grid, merged cells, fills and header styling, shapes keep their geometry — rounded rectangles, ellipses, arrows, connectors with their arrowheads — and groups keep their arrangement. Two things are still drawn as an outlined placeholder rather than rendered: charts and SmartArt diagrams; the note under the download says so when a deck contains one. Exact line breaks can differ from PowerPoint by a word, because the substituted faces run slightly wider than the original fonts. Speaker notes are not included, and a hidden slide is still exported, matching what the file contains.
What it is actually good for
Sharing a deck as a document. A presentation someone sent you, opened on a machine with no PowerPoint; a handout of a deck you wrote; a record of what each slide said and showed, for a file or an email thread. Measured against PowerPoint’s own PDF export, a text-and-shapes deck comes out with every word on every slide in place; the one deck to double-check before circulating is one built around charts or SmartArt, which arrive as outlined boxes rather than drawings.
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.
PowerPoint to PDF: common 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?
Yes. The converter reads the running order PowerPoint records in the presentation part — the same list the slide sorter shows — so a deck whose slides have been dragged into a new order converts in that order, not in the order the slides were created.
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.