PPT to PDF Converter
Extract PPTX slide text into a simple PDF deck.
Written by Anil Gautam · Updated
What does each page of the converted PDF show?
Every slide becomes one landscape A4 page with a thin grey frame, a bold heading that reads Slide 1, Slide 2 and so on, and the slide's text below in 13-point Helvetica. Only text stored on the slide itself is read. Pictures, charts, SmartArt, backgrounds and colours are left out, and speaker notes are skipped because PowerPoint keeps them in a separate part of the file. Hidden slides are included.
A slide with no readable text gets the line 'Slide text could not be extracted', so the page count always matches the slide count, and the status line confirms it, for example 'Converted 12 slides to a text-first PDF'. The PDF is named after the PPTX in lowercase with hyphens: Q3 Review.pptx becomes q3-review.pdf.
Why does one sentence split across several lines?
PowerPoint stores text in runs, and a new run starts wherever the formatting changes inside a line. The converter prints each run on its own line and trims the spaces at its ends. A bullet that reads 'Revenue grew 24% in Q3', with only 24% in bold, therefore prints as three lines: 'Revenue grew', '24%' and 'in Q3'. If those splits matter, remove the mixed formatting before converting. Long runs wrap at the page width.
Text comes out in the slide's stacking order, the order in which shapes sit from back to front, so a text box added last prints last even when it sits at the top of the slide. Grouped shapes are read the same way. Table cells come through as plain lines, row by row and left to right. The PDF holds only text in a built-in font, which keeps it small even for a long deck.
How much text fits on one slide page?
Each printed line takes 7 mm, each run adds a 2 mm gap after it, and nothing is drawn within 18 mm of the bottom edge. That leaves room for 18 one-line bullets, or 23 lines of a single long paragraph. Anything further down is dropped without a warning, so a slide with 30 short bullets loses the last 12. Split crowded slides before converting.
Helvetica, the font used on every page, has no rupee sign and no Devanagari, so a slide containing ₹ or Hindi text prints as garbled characters. Decks that rely on their design or use a non-Latin script are better exported to PDF from PowerPoint or Google Slides.