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Presentation PDF Feature

Information about the PDF feature and recommendations

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Written by Will Matysik
Updated over a week ago

How to generate and download a PDF Version of your presentation:

Once you have finalized the PDF version of your presentation, click the ellipsis (...) options menu to the right of your presentation name and select the PDF option.

Click the Generate New PDF button to begin the generation process.
Notes: You can close out of the popup while the PDF is generating, you should see a PDF icon next to your presentations name that will flash while generating. Once the PDF is done generating the PDF icon will become a solid blue/teal or yellow if you have made updates after you started the generation process. Click on the PDF icon to open the PDF popup again.

Once the PDF has been generated click the green Download button to download the PDF version of your presentation.
Notes: If the PDF icon is yellow or if you see a yellow message within the PDF popup that means edits were made after the PDF generation process.
Edits made after the PDF started generating will not be included in the downloaded PDF, you will need to regenerate the PDF to see the updates.

Before you generate and download a PDF:

If you end up having to send a PDF, I recommend duplicating your finalized presentation as you may need to make edits for the PDF version.
Duplicating the presentation will allow you to keep the web specific version untouched (this is because you may need to make updates specific to the PDF only).

You would want to duplicate the presentation because Interactive and Animated elements will not work within the PDF (this includes):
loader page, intro video page, main menu page, interior navigation and its elements, all images within an image rotator, overflowing text areas that would require scrolling, pop-up image areas, pop-up video areas, slide audio, videos that play on video templates, animating images (.gif files), clickable links, click to open text areas, hover to reveal text areas

After duplicating the presentation you will want to use the PDF View button (seen in the top right corner when editing) to preview what the presentation will look like when generated into a PDF.

The PDF View is not a perfect representation of what the PDF will look like but it is usually very close to the generated PDF.

Note: Click the slide names on the right sidebar to switch slides while in the PDF View.

You can use this view to preview what your PDF pages will look like and can make updates within this view if a slide needs to be changed.
If your slides are built with components (which are elements that can be adjusted within Layout mode), you will NOT be able to save updates to the slides within PDF View.

Common edits that need to be made within PDF View are:

  • Splitting up a slide into multiple slides if the text scrolls
    Scrolling doesn't work within a PDF

  • Choosing one image within an image rotator slide
    Only the first image will be shown in the PDF if the slide has multiple within an image rotator

  • Removing/replacing Video template slides
    Videos and animation doesn't work within the PDF

  • Updating the PDF specific pages and settings that get added when generating a PDF
    The PDF includes a Cover Page (required), Table of Contents (optional), Page Numbers (optional), as well as Chapter Cover Pages (optional)

Keep in mind:

The PDF contains several items that don't show up within the online/web version of the presentation.

This includes:

  • PDF Cover Page

  • Table of Contents page

  • PDF Chapter Cover Pages (one per chapter)

  • Page Numbers

You can update the PDF Cover Page image and Table of Contents image, by clicking on the presentation dropdown and selecting the PDF Settings option.
Notes: You can also Enable/Disable the Table of Contents and Enable/Disable the PDF Page Numbers here as well. The PDF Cover Page is the only PDF specific page that can't be disabled or removed (however if you have access to a PDF editor like Adobe Acrobat PRO you can delete the page using that application).

You can update the PDF Chapter Page image much like the main menu chapter images.
To do so, go to a slide within a chapter, click on the Chapter dropdown and select the PDF Settings option.
Note: You can also Enable/Disable the PDF Chapter Page here as well (your PDF Chapter Pages are disabled by default).

Notes: In the image example below; the Save Changes button had to be used before the PDF Chapter Cover Page was removed. Enabling the option Disable PDF Page option will not remove it immediately. The example is just to show the correct setting to have the PDF Chapter Cover Page removed.

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