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Any way to convert a PDF to PowerPoint?

mandly
Registered: Aug 31 2011
Posts: 2

Is there a way to convert a PowerPoint-generated PDF back into the original PowerPoint presentation, or something like it - a completely editable presentation?

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Acrobat Standard 9.0, Windows
UVSAR
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Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Not with Acrobat. There are third-party apps which claim to do it (Google for "PDF to PPT") but we can't comment on their accuracy or provide direct links.

Bear in mind that even if your PDF is tagged for accessibility, it cannot contain the information required to completely recreate the original PPT file - things like which elements are part of a master page aren't retained.
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
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Another option might be to convert the PDF to a format which is supported, like Word Document, and then create a PPT from that file. I won't expect great results, though.

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try67
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But they wanted it to be editable. Images are not very editable...

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kellymartin
Registered: Dec 8 2011
Posts: 1
UVSAR wrote:
Not with Acrobat. There are third-party apps which claim to do it (Google for "PDF to PPT") but we can't comment on their accuracy or provide direct links.
Bear in mind that even if your PDF is tagged for accessibility, it cannot contain the information required to completely recreate the original PPT file - things like which elements are part of a master page aren't retained.
Besides,I have read a related article about How to convert PDF to PowerPoint, which maybe is not a perfect job, but the results can be quite good.
Hope that work you out.
To convert PDF to PowerPoint,I suggest u to to render the PDF pages as images, and stick the images in slides inside of powerpoint.