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PowerPoint to PDF

PowerPoint to PDF: export a copy, keep the slides editable

The PDF is a copy, not a move. It opens in a new tab, and the file you exported from stays on the canvas — edit it, then export a fresh one.

The PDF leaves. The slides stay.

Export your PowerPoint to PDF
A printed presentation page lying flat on a pale grey surface in soft daylight, seen from directly above and filling the frame. It carries a slide: the heading “Quarterly Review” in a clean modern sans-serif, a thin terracotta rule beneath it, and four lines — “Every region ahead of plan”, “New markets opened on schedule”, “Support team doubled in size” and “Roadmap unchanged for next quarter” — with a small flat bar chart in the lower right. A pair of thin metal reading glasses rests at the right edge of the page, and a ceramic cup and a plant sit at the edges of the frame.

The export

A copy leaves. The original stays.

Exporting does not move your file anywhere. Here is the split.

Two things side by side on a pale grey surface, seen from above. On the left, a printed sheet carrying a slide; on the right, a tablet showing the same slide still open in an editor. Both carry the same words: the heading “Quarterly Review” and four lines, “Every region ahead of plan”, “New markets opened on schedule”, “Support team doubled in size” and “Roadmap unchanged for next quarter”. The printed sheet has a clean white paper margin; the tablet shows the slide selected on a canvas with a thumbnail rail and toolbars around it.

In the PDF

One page per slide
The slides on the canvas, in the order they sit, as fixed pages.
A document that opens anywhere
Any reader, any device — no PowerPoint and no fonts to install.
A file you can pass on
Attach it, print it, or send it on. A PDF does not reflow on the other side.

Still on the canvas

The PowerPoint you uploaded
It sits where you dropped it, as slides you can open and edit.
The next export
Change a number or reorder a page, then export again from the current slides.
Everything you add later
The PDF is a snapshot of one moment, not a lock on the file.

The format

What changes when slides become a PDF

A PDF is not a slideshow, and a few things follow from that.

It does not play
Transitions and animations belong to the slideshow, not to the page. A PDF holds still.
It does not reflow
The layout is fixed — which is why it looks the same in every reader, and why a long line cannot wrap its way out.
It is not editable in place
To change a word, edit the slides on the canvas and export a new PDF. The first export is untouched.

Where to find it

The export lives on the file

Right-click the file on the canvas. Export is one of the items, and it opens onto two: Export as PDF, and Download PPTX — the second one still carries a Beta badge.

A slide canvas in a web app on a pale grey dotted-grid background. One slide card sits on the left, selected with a thin blue outline and the page number 1 beneath it. The card carries the heading “Quarterly Review” in a clean modern sans-serif, a thin terracotta rule under it, and four lines, “Every region ahead of plan”, “New markets opened on schedule”, “Support team doubled in size” and “Roadmap unchanged for next quarter”, with a small flat bar chart in the lower right. Floating free in the empty canvas to the right of the card, with nothing attaching it to the card, a small context menu: one highlighted row reading “Export” with a download icon and a chevron pointing right. Beside it a second panel opens, holding two rows, “Export as PDF” and “Download PPTX”, the second with a small rounded “Beta” badge after the text.
  • Exporting PDF appears while it runs, and the PDF opens in a new tab when it is ready.
  • Ask for a second export while the first is running and it tells you so, instead of queueing another.
  • The menu belongs to that file, so nothing else on the canvas is involved.

The path

From a file on your desktop to a PDF

The file goes onto the canvas first. The PDF comes off it.

  1. Drop the PowerPoint on the canvas

    Drag a .pptx onto Felo LiveDoc. It lands where you dropped it, as slides you can open and edit.

  2. Right-click it and open Export

    The menu belongs to that file. Pick Export as PDF and the export starts.

  3. Take the PDF, keep working

    The PDF opens in a new tab. The slides are still on the canvas, ready for the next change.

Before you export

What else you can do with the file

Two of these work on the same presentation. The third goes the other way.

Export

Export a PDF, keep the file you made it from

Put the .pptx on the canvas and take the PDF off it. The slides stay editable.

Export your PowerPoint to PDF