Convert an Animated PowerPoint Presentation to an Animated PDF | Part 1

[@alessandroc.4543]

Thank you! It worked for me! I developed my animations knowing that only the "appear" one could be converted to pdf, therefore I suggest everyone to do the same if possible.

[@lalieb3930]

Thanks to your demonstration. I followed all your method. However which version of Adobe Reader DC that allows to view slides because with mine, I cannot have the animations of the slides. May I have information on this problem with Adobe ? Your Adobe version is it a free or not ? When I see the Adobe Reader's head of the window, you have the menu View I have not. Can you help me ? All the code has been uploaded on my Pwt presentation, I saved the document with the extension "presentation taking the macros" first before saving it after under another name in the "pdf" format.

[@PowerEn]

You save my life, Thanks bro

[@dawsonl]

Thank you for this. It worked perfectly the first time I tested it

[@meherazouzi4846]

Thanks for the video. Just a question, how can I make the text number in bold ? Thanks

[@donna2936]

Hi-great video and easy to follow, however some of my animation effects did not carry over especially the moving images? Any suggestions on how to make this work. I am on a Macbook. thank you

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thank you for your comment. I guess that moving images is beyond the capabilities of a PDF file. This animation will be interpreted as disappearing from the original location and appearing at the new one in the following slide.

[@donna2936]

@@MohamedWMehrez thank you for your reply

[@1nourlack]

Can u pls explain how we can do this for bar charts? I did the same but i failed.

[@sutherlandws]

I am seeing this a year or so after the last comment. I tried both the version without and with adding numbers, and combined them into a single Macro by copying the relevant SUB's from one to the other, and adding the text 'wNum' to the end of the SUBS from the Macro with numbers. Took a couple of tries to get it to work properly. What I want to find out is how do I add these Macros to PP in general so that I can apply it to any other presentation without having to create copy of the Macro in each new presentation, or to apply it to older presentations?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

check the second part of this video where i show how to do that. here is the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpm6ipKMe9emrdU

[@TerrenceTheus-p9i]

Thank you this was extremely helpful!

[@lujainmerdad5189]

It worked smoothly thanks man! but I have an issue The text in the keep showing overlaying in the next split slide, how can I erase it once its appear? im not sure if my thoughts are illustrated here

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thank you for your comment. The code used here has an issue with presenting animated paragraphs. Nonetheless, if you check part 2 of the video, I am using a new version of the code that handles this. Also, make sure that your paragraph is already animated in your ppt file (i.e. the text has the disappear animation added to it)

[@MrNebukad64]

Thanks for the tutorial - however, it does not do what I was looking for, perhaps you have a hint ;) I am using Office 365 for MAC and the Macro runs but does not add pages with elements disappearing - e.g. I have a slide which in the first animation adds a text box and in the second animation the first text box disappears and a new text box is been added, in the third animation the second text box disappears and a new text box appears ... and so on. However, when I run this macro the text boxes that should disappear remain and new text boxes appear and remain also for the next animation. Resulting in a slide in which several text boxes are covering each other ... don't know what I am doing wrong here ;) You got any idea? Thanks!

[@MohamedWMehrez]

The method in the video should work perfectly for your case. I created the slides in the video using office 365 on windows 10. I don't really have any specific hint except following the video steps :). If you don't mind sharing your slides or part of it with me, I can convert it for you.

[@MrNebukad64]

@@MohamedWMehrez Thanks for your reply - I have done it manually, however, as I need to do this on a regular manner, I am trying to find solution for it ;) Thanks!

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Just to be sure. Try to download the presentation I used in the video and perform the conversion steps on it. You will find it referenced in the video description.

[@fatemehshekofteh]

thanks for your good explanation. I have a question: why the animations that have effect options like "by paragraph" don't save correctly in pdf?! for example if we have 3 lines with bullets, in pdf there are 3 page but all are like each other! without separating each paragraph in one page.

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, the code doesn't handle this case. You may split the bullet points into several paragraphs as a work around.

[@ougadougou9]

@@MohamedWMehrez I've written a new VBA programme (based originally on the one you linked to, but after several iterations radically different). This DOES deal with paragraph animations. I've emailed you (and also Neil Mitchell, the author of the original 2007 code) with the code for you to try out.

[@MohamedWMehrez]

@@ougadougou9 Thank you very much David for sharing the new code.

[@sarahali2644]

Is it possible to do a 'clickable' trigger animation on PDF using PPT?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

I think if you put the pdf in full-screen-mode, it would run through slides by clicking

[@FadimeBek]

Thank you!! This worked! On my computer (running Windows 10) to have the macros save the file needs to be .pptm

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thank you for your comment. Check also the second part of this video it has some other nice features.

[@ashissuvys4ever]

I am using the "page curl" transition... It is not working for me...

[@noures1827]

Thanks for the trick Mohamed!

[@yc736]

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I wanted!

[@sangitagupta8416]

I need a coding for gif of rotation of globe can you tell me how

[@JeffGates_is_outtacontext]

Will this work with PowerPoint transitions (like wipe, etc) as well as animations like morph?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

It will show the object before and after the transition only.

[@melaniehansen665]

I am using PowerPoint 16 and it does not seem to work. I have a slide, where I have multiple pictures on. When I click on each picture different shapes appear and another click will make the shapes disappear. However, when I am using the code, it does not add the multiple slides for each appearance/disappearance, just a copy of the existing slides but without the animation. I have also tried PART 2, but again with no luck. ;) I can see on previous comments, that your example was available for download - however, I can not seem to find it. Can you put it up for download again? :D

[@melaniehansen665]

I found out what is wrong - it is because I use Trigger on click - when I click on one picture, certain shapes pops up, when I click at another other shapes pops up. Do you know if it is possible to keep the trigger on click - do I need another code?

[@jasmineelsayad6047]

A simple explanation and useful 👍

[@LanguageSpeakHub]

Great video!! Thank you so much! It's been a long time since I have tried to find something like that, so I am really greatful! I would appreciate if you can clarify something for me: There a powerpoint I need to convert to an animated pdf, but this powerpoint has some gif images, is it possible to convert them with the macros as well? or do I have to do something totally different? Thanks again!

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Hi, thank you for your comment. I don't think this method can work on gifs; however, you can try a workaround; you may split the gif into its constituting pictures and regenerate its animation in a single slide using PowerPoint animation tools. Then you use the method in the video to convert the whole file into a pdf. The gif part in the pdf will be animated as the viewer scroll through the slides.

[@LanguageSpeakHub]

@@MohamedWMehrez wow, I will give it a try, thank you so much for your reply and this valuable tip ;-)

[@MohamedWMehrez]

@@LanguageSpeakHub You are welcome!

[@maykme4893]

Did not work. Repeated several times and with the various script revisions posted. Published with no sound, no animation, and no video playback. Using a new macbook, powerpoint 2016. Pulling hair out.

[@mnik6773]

great video and code

[@wora-aisawansuvannasankha7975]

If i want to open it in IOS / Android as a presentation slide, what application you would recommend?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

I am not sure if I understand you correctly, but there are PowerPoint application for Android and if the presentation is converted to pdf, you can use any PDF reader.

[@wora-aisawansuvannasankha7975]

Mohamed W. Mehrez Thanks, i found it. It’s “Polaris PDF”. I was finding the application which i can go next page without seeing slide pass through the screen :)

[@rami111511]

Dear Mohamed.. I have a ppt with links to internal sildes in the same file.. this code didn't help resolving the transition (all links are not shown on the generated pdf, actually I have originally 195 sildes were converted to 195 sildes after running the macros. The links of the active slides at powerpoint are linked to the crossed (hidden) original slides and no links on the pdf as mentioned).

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Hi Rami, thank you for your comment. I am not so sure if these macros cover the functionality you're looking for. They work very well with me when I have animation in the slides, e.g. appearing /disappearing objects.

[@rami111511]

@@MohamedWMehrez many thanks for your reply. Is it possible to send you my file to try at your end?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

@@rami111511 I am not so sure if that will be helpful as I am going to run exactly the same steps shown in the video, which I believe you followed precisely.

[@meritademelo6500]

Thank you very much Mohamed. Your explanation was so clear and this workaround is absolutely useful. You're a genius!

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thank you!

[@anthonyasci810]

Thanks for the video. I paste the code into the visual basic window, go back to PPT, click Macros, and there is nothing there. Any suggestions?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thanks for your comment. I haven't actually seen this happening before. May be you have multiple PPT's open and you go back to the wrong one.

[@yousufaero]

The coordinates for placing the slide number in the video at 09:49 is good for standard slide size(4:3). But for widescreen (16:9) try 900,510 And to have colour for the slide number .. add "oshp.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Color.RGB = RGB(0, 0, 255)" play with RGB values... this one is for blue colour

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thank you very much Yousuf for your comment. In the second part of this video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpm6ipKMe9emrdU) (recently uploaded), you will find another code used for conversion, which addresses many of the issues in the code presented here; the slide number location is take care of automatically.

[@ajaysinghpanwar8917]

Thank you for this extremely lucid and useful tutorial. I wanted to create animated pdf files for teaching over Bigbluebutton and with your tutorial I could do that.

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thank you for your comment and glad that this tutorial was helpful.

[@aksharyagupta]

Hi Mohamed, Thanks for the video, actually this code works in a simple animation but I've some smooth timeline journey animation in my few slides of the presentation and which is actually not getting rendered in pdf format as it is. Any idea or trick for that?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thank you for the comment. Actually this method will show only the end state of the animation.

[@JaPan76]

Thank you very much, it works perfectly.

[@fatimashariff8914]

hi..i cant get my slide right. Please advice what to do.Fatima

[@laizvalim3877]

Hi! Is there a way to don't show the page number in the slide?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Yes. In the first part of the video, I show the conversion without showing the page number.

[@joojootara]

does this work if I have no animation but have inserted a Gif instead?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

I don't think it works with embedded GIF.

[@aminemohamedaboussalah6169]

Very simple and easy to follow. Thank you :)

[@MohamedWMehrez]

You're welcome!

[@alhbindata]

Thanks for this! Saved me a lot of time :-)

[@kalebdr1]

Very useful. But how to remove page number from the first page?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thank you. You probably can manually remove it. Click on the number to select and then remove it.

[@kalebdr1]

Thanks. I manually removed it from pdf. One more question: I found it does not preserve animation where each bullet points come one by one. Do you have any idea to do that?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Check the second part of this video where the shown code handles the bullet points.

[@larsorloff3393]

thanks for putting this video together. very helpful!

[@nlangrana]

I enjoyed the presentation and I tried to insert Code 1 into my power point presentation. When I ran this macro I got an error stating "Power Point can't start this feature because you currently have a Visual Basic for Application project in break mode". It is stuck on line 1. Please guide me, I am not a programmer, I am an user only

[@MohamedWMehrez]

I think that this problem is a rather PowerPoint one. You may try a different computer and see if you can have your slides converted. You can also check Google for the error you got.

[@matthewpesner9728]

Great code! I can get it to work for the first and last effect of an animation on a slide, but not separate slides for each animation within slide. It basically gives me replicates of the final look of a given slide as many times as there are animations. I am using ppt for mac. I downloaded your presentation and got it to work perfectly, but having issues with mine, which is even more frustrating. Might it be due to the length of my presentation? Thanks!

[@MohamedWMehrez]

I actually tried it for long presentations (80 slides) and it worked fine. I would like to mention that this code won't work for bullet points, so if you have any, you better separate them into multiple text boxes instead of one.

[@matthewpesner9728]

@@MohamedWMehrez Ok that definitely explains the issues! Thank you so much!

[@matthewpesner9728]

Also wondering what alteration you would make to the code to get the numbers to begin on the second slide?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

@@matthewpesner9728 I actually haven't tried this before.

[@k30lauST]

Great work. Thanks.

[@marinesimoen1488]

Very useful, thank you for sharing!

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thank you. Check also part 2 for other nice features.

[@sangitagupta8416]

Sir how you find the coding for video

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Hi, the codes are linked in the video description.

[@sangitagupta8416]

Sir i tried to add gif of globe from google chrome but i did not find source code for that gif

[@MohamedWMehrez]

This method doesn't handle GIF's ... Nonetheless, you can extract the images of the globe rotation and reanimate them in your PowerPoint.

[@marcinpazdro2579]

that just saved me literarily hours

[@MohamedWMehrez]

check also the second part of this video; it has more nice features for conversion.

[@AkashGupta-kv8il]

Great script! Thank you so much!

[@AS-df7do]

Thank you. It was very useful. God bless.

[@aryapathak7039]

where the code comes from?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Links to codes are in the video description.

[@tech-education7462]

Sweet and Simple....

[@amitjadhav5312]

NOt working. on my system. what to do? need help ?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

What is your system? I tried this on windows 10.

[@amitjadhav5312]

@@MohamedWMehrez windows7 ultimate edition without service pack

[@amitjadhav5312]

and office version is 2013

[@mohammedanshida5187]

Is there any way in a smartphone

[@MohamedWMehrez]

I am not so sure. I did this on a windows 10 computer.

[@JackalEvelyn]

Thank you for the video, Mohamed. It's quite useful.

[@MohamedWMehrez]

You are welcome

[@Kingrow-GrowthPartner]

I love you! Thanks

[@danielacarranza508]

Thanks a lot for this video!

[@MohamedWMehrez]

You're welcome!

[@Toopa88]

Does not work as expected.

[@vegankatzman]

Hi Mohamed! This video is brilliant, however I cannot get it to work. I have followed your steps completely but when I go to the pdf it doesn't animate all. Any ideas?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Thanks! Just make sure that you convert the PowerPoint slides to PDF after generating the animated slides in PowerPoint. Just following the steps in the video should be enough.

[@vegankatzman]

Thanks again. Do you think there are certain animations, like having a picture fade in that just won't work?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

@@vegankatzman you won't see the fade effect in the PDF file, but you will see it as just a sudden appearance. PDF doesn't support in-page animation. The purpose of this video tutorial is to have a PDF with as many pages as the transitions you originally have in your animated PPT. So as you scroll down your pdf, you would see objects on slides appear and disappear as per the PPT without the animation effects like fade.

[@yasomaso1987]

جميل ربنا يوفقك

[@MarioVeneziani]

Thanks a lot for the great video. Very useful and the code works seamless

[@MohamedWMehrez]

You are welcome!

[@cach_dies]

Thank you for this.

[@yousufaero]

Thanks a tlot for the video.. :)

[@nancyrebout2644]

Thanks so much !!!!

[@Mrscmfraser]

I was searching for how to keep my animations in a Word document when converting to PDF and I found your very interesting video. Is this method adaptable to Word? Do you know how to keep animations in Word?

[@MohamedWMehrez]

I am not sure how to do this actually. The animation in the powerpoint is based on switching from slide to the following one, but in documents I guess you are looking for something like "embedding GIF in PDF".

[@3DVisLu]

it does not work with animated paths

[@yongquixote]

Thank you !!!

[@NoelCrisostomo]

very helpful!

[@hossinbidad3876]

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[@salmaaziz9860]

Thank you so much. I really needed it.

[@MohamedWMehrez]

You're welcome!

[@jameswarrenjohnson7251]

Merci gars tu me sauve

[@himanshumarkanday5700]

Thanx, it's a simple and valuable :)

[@mohammadalothman9656]

Thanks a lot!

[@DarrenVelSatis]

I got lost with all the talk of page numbers, to my mind these would ruin the process of animating the slides

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Check the second part of the video. Conversion is much more straight forward and some other issues are fixed there too.

[@royfr8136]

Low volume

[@MohamedWMehrez]

Sorry about that. I didn't realize that until it was too late.

[@saheluddin7878]

waste of a time .

[@wenjingwang1110]

This video helps a lot! Thanks!

[@miralmajamundar4464]

Very Very very helpful ! Thank you so much !

[@jack28dan]

Thank you very much!!!!

[@VinayakGP]

Thank you!