I have a Adobe PDF file that I would like to convert to a Power Point slide show. Is there a program I can download that will let me do this easily?
How many pages is the .pdf file?
You could take a snapshot of each page, and import it into PPT as an image, one image per slide.
If you have Adobe Acrobat, you could save each page as a .png file, and then import it into PPT. I can do this for you if you need. Email me the .pdf file (email address in profile).
The PDF in question is 114 pages. I thought of just doing an image, and that would probably work, but I was sort of hoping there would be a program that might be able to do this faster then doing it myself.
Thanks for the offer for doing it, but I do have access to actual Acrobat on my wife’s work laptop that I could use if needed.
The good thing with Adobe Acrobat is that it will convert all 114 pages into 114 separate .png files in one click, so you don’t have to do it manually for each page.
A Google search turns up some paid software to convert .pdf to .ppt, but I haven’t used any personally, so I don’t know which ones are scams and which ones are legit.
I have to ask why you need to do this. The benefit of PPT is that you can give presentations with it, but you can also give a presentation of a PDF file directly. It won’t have all of the special-effect transitions and so on, but then, neither will the PPT-translated form of it. And aside from all of that, a 114-page presentation has no value except as an insomnia treatment.
Meanwhile, converting 114 pages of PDF into PPT will leave you with an insanely bloated file, that will probably drag your computer to a standstill when it tries to load it.
In my experience people deliver presentations as pdf files specifically to make it harder for parts to be extracted and/or modified. Is the owner of this material going to be happy with you modifying it? PDFs can be presented just fine, and at least some of the animations seem to survive in later versions.
I’d expect that 114 .png files is going to be huge.
This question comes up all the time in our internal mail lists, and the best solution is usually to get the source.
Download OpenOffice (free) and get the Sun PDF Import extension (using the Extension Manager), import your PDF, then save the output as a Powerpoint.
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It is actually for school. It is much easier to take notes during a lecture in powerpoint then it is in PDF. I don’t care about the special effects at all.
Trust me, I know. Hard enough staying awake during a 8am class, let alone when the lecture is that long!
I don’t know how he would feel. I’m trying to do this to further my own academic success, not for any public displays. I do know it won’t be breaking any school rules or guidelines, so I know I won’t get in trouble for it.
Hmm, I’ll have to try this. I have never used OpenOffice, so I’ll have to install it.
Thank you all for your suggestions and comments so far, keep them coming!
Just to be clear…it sounds like
- the prof of your class distributed a 114 page pdf file that he will be lecturing from.
- You want to be able to take notes within the file as he is lecturing.
- You believe this is easier done within powerpoint than in adobe acrobat.
Good luck