PDF to PowerPoint

About PDF to PowerPoint

Makes a PowerPoint file with one slide per page. With Text you can edit ticked, the words become text boxes in their own size and colour, over a background of the page’s own pictures, shapes and colours; untick it to get each page as one picture that looks exactly like it. The words also go in the speaker notes.

How to use it

1. Add one or more PDFs.
2. Leave Text you can edit ticked to change the words on the slides, or untick it for exact pictures of the pages.
3. Press Make the slides.
4. Save the .pptx and open it in PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote or LibreOffice Impress.

Good to know

With Text you can edit, each line or paragraph becomes a text box where it stood, in its own size, weight and colour, and the background is the page drawn without its words, so charts, photos and coloured bars stay exactly as they were. Fonts become Arial, Times New Roman or Courier New, so a line may run a little longer or shorter than on the page. The slide shape follows the first page, so a landscape PDF gives wide slides.

Untick Text you can edit and each slide is a sharp picture of its page, exactly as the PDF looks on any screen or projector. Either way the words go into the speaker notes. A scanned page has no words of its own, so it stays a picture and its notes stay empty; run it through Make searchable first if you want them filled. A page with words set at an angle also stays a picture, so nothing goes missing.

This is the right tool when you need to show a PDF in a meeting, or hand it to someone who works in slides. To rewrite the words themselves, PDF to Word gives you editable text instead.

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