Convert a PowerPoint presentation to PDF
Drop a .pptx and get a PDF with one page per slide, ready to send or print. The presentation is read and drawn inside this browser tab — it never leaves your device.
Drop your PowerPoint presentation here
or pick a file from your device
- Drop a .pptx file on the page or press Select .pptx.
- Press Convert to PDF. Each visible slide becomes one page with the size of the presentation (16:9, 4:3 or custom).
- Download the result. The PDF is reopened and its pages are counted before it is offered to you.
Each slide is drawn, object by object
A slide is not a flowing document: every title, text box, picture and shape has its own position, size and stacking order, and most of them inherit their look from the slide layout, the slide master and the theme. CLEKARA resolves that chain the way PowerPoint does — placeholder positions, bullet styles for each level, theme colours with their light and dark variations, and the shapes the master adds to every slide — and then draws each object in its place.
Text keeps its size, weight, colour, alignment, bullets and numbering, indents, line spacing, vertical anchoring and “shrink text on overflow”. Shapes keep their geometry, rotation, fill, gradient and outline; pictures keep their cropping; tables keep their table style; and charts are drawn from the values PowerPoint stores inside the file. Hidden slides are left out, as PowerPoint does when exporting.
What it will not do
The PDF uses the fonts built into every PDF reader: Helvetica, Times and Courier. To keep lines breaking where they break in PowerPoint, text set in fonts such as Calibri is written with the average width of the original font, so positions and line breaks stay close — but the letter shapes are not the original ones. For a pixel-exact copy with your own fonts, use File → Export → PDF in PowerPoint itself.
Animations, transitions, video and audio cannot exist in a PDF. Shadows, reflections, 3-D effects and some uncommon shapes are simplified; chart types other than column, bar, line, area, pie and doughnut, pictures in EMF/WMF format and embedded objects are left out, and the result tells you how many. Those built-in fonts do not cover Cyrillic, Greek or Asian scripts: a presentation written in them is stopped with an explanation. Old .ppt files (PowerPoint 97–2003) are a different, binary format: save them as .pptx first.
Frequently asked questions
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The presentation is read in memory and the PDF is built by code running in this tab. Nothing is sent to a CLEKARA server.
Will the PDF look exactly like my slides?
Layout, colours, pictures, tables and charts stay in place, and text keeps its size and line breaks. What changes is the shape of the letters when your presentation uses a font that is not one of the built-in PDF fonts, and some effects such as shadows. For an exact copy, export from PowerPoint itself.
Are hidden slides included?
No, just as PowerPoint leaves them out when exporting to PDF. The result tells you how many were skipped.
What page size does the PDF have?
The size of the slides: a 16:9 presentation gives 16:9 pages and a 4:3 presentation gives 4:3 pages, one page per slide.
Can I convert a .ppt or .key file?
Only .pptx. Open a .ppt in PowerPoint or LibreOffice Impress, or a Keynote file in Keynote, save it as .pptx and convert that file.