PPT to PDF?

[alves]

Hi guys,

I need to convert some ppt (no animations, no hyperlink,...) into pdf.
I have tried PDFCREATOR (sourceforge) and CUTEPDF. both leave a white
margin around the slides...

Is there any FREE (not shareware) way of creating full scree pdf?

I use PP 2003

Thanks a million.

PA

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

It is not my area of expertise but I did find this, which I hope helps:

http://www.rdpslides.com/psfaq/FAQ00008.htm

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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com

 

[TAJ Simmons]

PA,

What you are seeing is probably the 'printed output' of powerpoint being
converted into a PDF.

When powerpoint sends a presentation to the printer - it always puts a white
margin/border around the slides.

The only trick I can think of would be to somehow make powerpoint think the
paper size was bigger than it really is.

see also other PDF software
http://www.pptools.com/prep4pdf/FAQ00033.htm

cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Echo S]

That's what I was thinking -- it's the PPT margins showing up.

Acrobat (full version, not free) has an option to crop the edges of PDF
pages. This will give you a PDF of a slide with no white edges. I don't know
if any of the free PDF creation tools have this option.

But if you print it out, whether from the PDF or from PPT itself, you're
still going to get edges -- unless you have a printer that can do
edge-to-edge printing. But most printers leave a margin.

When you create the PDF or print the slide to the PDF driver or print the
slide to a regular printer, try choosing "scale to fit paper" and see if
that helps. You'll probably still get a bit of a margin on at least one
side, but it might be closer.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The other answers have it pretty much on target. This simply adds a bit to
what they've already said.

The standard PPT slide is somewhat smaller than the standard letter size page
you're targeting when you make a PDF.

If your slide size in PPT is proportional to the page size in your PDF making
software AND you choose "Scale to fit paper" in the PPT print dialog box, you
should get a PDF with no margins.

If the slide size in PPT isn't proportional to letter size paper, you may be
able to choose a page size to "print" to in the PDF making software that's
proportional to the slide size in PPT, or define a custom page size that is
proportional.

If none of that works out, with Adobe Acrobat, you can "trim" the excess white
space. If you know someone with a copy of Acrobat, perhaps they can do that
for you.