Export PowerPoint slides to PDF with speaker notes

To get a PDF of your slides with the speaker notes under each one, open the .pptx in Deck and export it as a PDF of notes pages. Deck runs in a browser tab at madosuite.com, keeps the file on your own device and exports PDF with selectable text.

A plain slide export drops your notes. That is fine for a screen, but not for a reviewer who needs to know what you plan to say, a co-presenter who takes over half the talk, or a printout you hold at the lectern. Notes pages put the slide and its notes on the same page.

What you need

• The .pptx file.
• A browser. Madosuite is free and needs no account.

Madosuite is a desktop of apps in a browser tab. It runs a Linux machine on your device, and your files live in that machine’s home folder. They are not uploaded to us.

Steps

1. Go to madosuite.com and open Files.
2. Press Upload and pick your .pptx.
3. Open the file with Deck.
4. Check the notes. Deck shows a notes area with each slide. Click through a few slides and make sure the text you expect is there.
5. Export the deck as a PDF and choose notes pages. Each page shows one slide with its notes.
6. Open Files again and download the PDF.

If you changed anything in the deck, save it as .pptx too, then download that from Files as well.

Notes pages or handouts

Deck’s PDF export has three kinds of output: slides, notes pages and handouts.

• Slides: one slide per page, no notes. Use it for sharing the deck itself.
• Notes pages: a slide and its speaker notes on each page. Use it for rehearsal, review or a co-presenter.
• Handouts: slides laid out for an audience to follow along. Use notes pages when the speaker notes are the point.

In each case the PDF has selectable text, so readers can search it and copy a line. It is not just a picture of your slides.

Tips before you export

• Write notes as full sentences if someone else will present from them. Short cues make sense to you and to nobody else.
• Use sections to split a long deck. Deck supports sections, so a reviewer can see where each part starts.
• Check headers and footers. Deck supports headers and footers; a date or a page number helps when people print the PDF and the pages get shuffled.
• Keep the .pptx. The PDF is for reading. Make further changes in the .pptx and export again.

If you also want a short animated preview of the same deck, see how to turn a slide deck into a GIF.

Why do this in the browser

Speaker notes often hold things that are not on the slides: numbers before they are public, names, what you will say about a client. Many online converters ask you to upload the file to their servers. Deck works on the copy in your browser’s home folder, so the deck stays on your device.

You also do not need PowerPoint. As of 14 November 2026, Microsoft 365 Personal costs US$9.99 a month or US$99.99 a year, and Microsoft 365 for the web is free with a Microsoft account, with files saved in OneDrive. If you only need to get a PDF out of a .pptx now and then, Deck does it for free. See the PowerPoint alternative page for more.

Limits

Deck is in alpha, heading for beta. Its makers estimate it is about 55% ready for real work. In practice:

• SmartArt is basic. Slides that lean on SmartArt may not look the same as in PowerPoint. Look at those slides before you export.
• Complex decks may show other differences. The app’s makers keep a list of known shortfalls.

Read the PDF before you send it. If a slide looks wrong, fix it in Deck and export again; the .pptx stays your source.

Clearing the site’s data in your browser deletes the files in Madosuite, so download what you want to keep.

For more on opening presentations, see how to open a .pptx file, or go straight to the PPTX to PDF tool.

Start on the Deck app page.