Things You'll Need:
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- PDF file you want to convert
- Microsoft PowerPoint (included in the Microsoft Office applications suite)
- PowerPoint presentation file (optional)
- Software tool (such as Image Importer Wizard or Pixerter) for inserting graphics into new slides in a PowerPoint presentation file
- "Paint" (or similar) application
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Step 1
Start Acrobat Reader in its own window (that is, not in full-screen mode).
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Step 2
Open the PDF file you want to convert in Acrobat Reader.
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Step 3
Select the "View" and "Zoom" and "Fit Page" command. This allows you to see all of the selected page within the Acrobat Reader window.
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Step 4
Select the "Edit" and "Preferences" command. In the "Preferences" dialog, click "Categories:Full Screen" then under "Full Screen Appearance" click "Background Color" and select the color square that displays white. (If you're inserting images into PowerPoint slides whose background color is other than white, select that color here.) This step sets the background color that appears behind each PDF page when shown in full-screen mode.
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Step 1
Start PowerPoint. To insert the PDF's pages into a new PowerPoint file, select the "File" and "New" command. Then in the dialog enter the new PowerPoint file's name and click "OK." To use an existing PowerPoint file, select the "File" and "Open" command. Then in the dialog select the file you want to use and click "OK."
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Step 2
With an existing PowerPoint file, identify where in the presentation to add the next slide that will contain an image from the PDF file. Next, select the existing slide that comes before the next new slide, then select the "Insert" and "New Slide" command (or press Ctrl+M) to add a new slide. To add more new slides between existing slides in the presentation, repeat this step.
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Step 3
Ensure that the background color for the next new slide is the same as the background color you selected for displaying the PDF file's pages.
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Step 1
Select the next PDF page whose content you want to capture in an image in Acrobat Reader.
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Step 2
Capture only part of this PDF page in an image: Select the "Tools" and "Select & Zoom" and "Snapshot Tool" command and then drag the mouse to select a rectangular area of the page. In the resulting dialog, click "OK."
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Step 3
Capture this entire PDF page in an image in three keystrokes: Press Ctrl+L to display the page in full-screen mode, then press PrScr to capture the image, then press Ctrl+L to display the page again in Acrobat Reader.
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Step 1
Insert the next slide in the PowerPoint file on which you will insert the page image you just captured from a PDF page.
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Step 2
Click anywhere on the slide where you want to insert the PDF page image. Press Ctrl+V to insert the image on the slide.
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Step 3
Drag the inserted image to a location on the slide that you prefer. Drag one of the handles shown on the outline of the inserted image to resize the image on the slide.
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Step 1
Create the target PowerPoint presentation file, if it does not already exist.
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Step 2
Select the "File" and "New" command in the Paint application. Press Ctrl+V to insert the image you manually captured from a given PDF page. Then save the inserted graphic to a new file in your preferred graphics file format, such as GIF, JPEG, or TIFF. Repeat this entire step for each page in the PDF file you want to convert.
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Step 3
Start the tool for automatically inserting graphics into a target PowerPoint file. Select the tool's options that govern the graphics characteristics of each new slide that the tool will create.
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Step 4
Run the tool so that it automatically inserts, in turn, each graphics file you manually created into a separate new slide in the target PowerPoint file.
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Step 5
Save the target PowerPoint file.
