PowerPoint to PDF

PowerPoint-to-PDF conversion turns a slide deck into a paginated document where each slide is a page. SwitchPDF uses LibreOffice Impress's headless export, which renders each slide using the same engine LibreOffice uses for its own slideshow mode. Fonts, layouts, images, embedded shapes, gradients, and even SmartArt graphics convert faithfully.

For slides with animations, the PDF shows the final state after all animations complete (since PDF is a static format). Transitions are also static — the PDF shows the resulting slide, not the transition effect. Speaker notes are not included by default but can be added via the export options.

Slide dimensions are preserved: a 16:9 widescreen presentation produces 16:9 PDF pages, and 4:3 produces 4:3. This matters for printing — most PowerPoint decks are widescreen and look stretched if forced into A4 portrait. Our default is to keep the original slide aspect ratio so the PDF matches what you see in PowerPoint.

Common use cases: sharing decks with people who do not have PowerPoint, archiving presentations in a stable format, creating printable handouts, distributing materials at conferences where attendees need a downloadable version. For interactive presentations with embedded video or live charts, PDF inevitably loses interactivity — for those, keep the original .pptx.