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How to convert your heavy PowerPoint into a light pdf

Your new 5-page presentation includes a few pictures and you'd like to send it to a couple of people. But for whatever reason, you'd prefer to send it in pdf. Your presentation weighs 1.8 MB. There are ways to reduce the size of pictures, but it's another issue. PowerPoint 2003 on XP offers you a perfectly working pdf conversion tool right in the menu. This might change with Office 2008, though.

Things are different on a Mac, if you use PowerPoint. Keynote offers smarter export flexibility than PowerPoint, but you might prefer staying with PowerPoint. Great. Converting any file into pdf is a bit longer but works perfectly.
 

→ Here is how to optimize your conversion:

PC:

Click on Adobe PDF and select "Convert to Adobe PDF"

Your 2MB ppt files becomes a 545KB pdf. Not bad.

Mac:

Go to File > Print and select on the bottom left "PDF" button "Save as PDF".

Woops! Your 1.8MB file is now above 7MB.

No worry. Open your pdf file in Acrobat Professional. Go to File > Reduce file size and there you are: 260 KB!

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