Question 1

What does this tool do?

Accepted Answer

It converts OpenDocument Presentation (.odp) files to PDF entirely in your browser. We unzip the .odp (which is a ZIP container), read content.xml, extract slides (draw:page) with their titles (draw:text-box containing text:p) and bullet lists, then render each slide as a single PDF page using pdf-lib. No LibreOffice or OpenOffice is required.

Question 2

What ODP features are supported?

Accepted Answer

We support: slides (draw:page), titles (the first text box on each slide), bullet lists (text:list with text:list-item), text boxes (draw:text-box), plain paragraphs (text:p), and basic text formatting. Slide notes, animations, transitions, embedded images, charts, drawn shapes, and master-page inheritance are flattened to plain text or skipped. The output preserves the text content of each slide but does not replicate the visual layout.

Question 3

Does it work for password-protected .odp files?

Accepted Answer

No. Encrypted .odp files use a Blowfish/AES wrapping that requires the user's password and a WASM crypto blob to decrypt. We surface a clear 'encrypted ODP — password required' error. Use LibreOffice on desktop to remove the encryption first.

Question 4

What extra features does this tool have compared to others?

Accepted Answer

10 extras: (1) Drag-drop input. (2) Slide count and per-slide preview. (3) Page size selector (4:3 / 16:9 / Letter portrait). (4) Title extraction (largest text on each slide). (5) Stats — slide count, title count, word count, character count. (6) Live preview of extracted text per slide. (7) Background color (white / dark). (8) History of recently converted .odp files (localStorage — last 10). (9) Shareable URL with conversion options. (10) Custom font size for body text.

Question 5

Is my .odp file uploaded anywhere?

Accepted Answer

No. All ODP parsing and PDF rendering runs in your browser using pure JavaScript and pdf-lib. File contents never leave your device. Only conversion summaries (filename + slide count) are saved to local history.

Question 6

Why are images and shapes missing from the PDF?

Accepted Answer

pdf-lib can only draw text, lines, and rectangles — not arbitrary vector shapes or raster images without base64-encoding them first. For ODP files with rich graphics, the output is a text-only rendering. Use LibreOffice's native PDF export (File → Export As → PDF) for full fidelity, or use the SVG-to-PDF tool on individual SVG-rendered slides.

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