PDF to slides
What PDF to slides actually does
A converter that drops every page into a fixed 4:3 or 16:9 slide leaves a portrait page covering little more than half the slide, with the rest white. This page makes the slide size a decision: shaped like the page, widescreen, or classic, with page-shaped as the default. A filmstrip shows each page already placed inside the slide frame it will occupy, with the percentage of the slide it covers, so the choice is made by looking at the result rather than by opening the deck afterwards.
How to use it
- Choose a PDF. Every page is drawn small and placed inside the current slide frame.
- Pick the slide size and see immediately how much of the slide each page covers.
- Tick the pages that should become slides, set the resolution, and build the deck.
Useful for
- Turn a printed handout into a deck without losing half of every slide to white margins.
- Move a set of report pages into a presentation for annotation on top of them.
- Build a widescreen deck deliberately, when the room's projector needs 16:9 more than the pages need their own shape.
Limits worth knowing
- A slide must be between 1 and 56 inches per side. A page outside that range is clamped and the clamp is reported.
- Pages whose shape differs from the first page sit inside the slide with a margin, and the count of those pages is reported.
- Each slide is a picture of the page. The text on it is not editable in the presentation; converting to an editable document is the Word tool's job.
- Speaker notes are not generated.
Questions people ask
Is the file uploaded?
No. The PDF is read, drawn and packed into the presentation in this tab.
Why default to slides shaped like the page?
Most PDFs are portrait, and a portrait page inside a 10 by 7.5 inch slide covers about 58 percent of it. Matching the page shape puts the whole slide to work.
Can the slide size be changed afterwards?
Yes, in PowerPoint or Keynote, but the images will then be rescaled to the new shape. Choosing it here avoids that.