This page describes how to use PPT To PDF Scout to convert PowerPoint presentations (PPT) into PDF documents. PDF documents can be viewed and printed using popular freeware Adobe Reader. PDF document is a very convenient way to print document as all fonts and formatting are preserved and PDF documents are always displayed "as is" on all supported platforms (PDF documents can be viewed and printed on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, Windows Mobile platforms etc).

This tutorial will show how to convert PPT presentation into PDF document using PDF To PDF Scout

First download and install PPT To PDF Scout

Start PPT To PDF Scout and press Next:

Click on folder icon to set filename for input PPT and output PDF files:

For example click folder icon at Input File box and open PPT presentation file:

Now click Next to set PDF options.

PPT To PDF Scout will display PDF Options window:

Enter title for PDF document, author, subject, keywords information and change compatibility mode if needed:

On Security sheet you can set PDF security options: 40 or 128 bit protection key length, master password (required to modify document), user password (required to view document), allow printing, hi-quality printing, copy information, modify structure, modify annotations, allow assemble, allow extract information:

On Page Setup page you can change page setup options (page size, page orientation and margins):

On "Misc" page you can change font charset used for bookmarks (make sure to set non-latin charset if you use non-latin letters in slide titles in powerpoint presentation)

Click Continue to start PPT to PDF conversion. PPT To PDF Scout will convert presentation to PDF document and will display "Finished" page when conversion is done.

Here is a screenshot of resulted PDF document:

Text is converted as text (text is not rasterized) so you can copy text from PDF document using Copy and Paste functions. For example, you can select and copy text from PDF document in Adobe Reader:

And then paste text from clipboard into Notepad: