Converting Presentations to PowerPoint

It's a Money Thing presentations are prepared in Adobe InDesign and exported as Adobe Acrobat PDFs complete with your credit union's logo on the first and last slides. These files can easily be presented full screen using the professional Acrobat DC application or the free Acrobat Reader application on a PC or Mac.

 

Delivering the presentations in PDF format allows us to provide the highest fidelity graphic files, embed the It's a Money Thing font family, Brandon Text, and automate logo placement. This ensures a seamless and consistent branded experience that matches all other pieces in each content pack.

 

However, you may wish to convert the provided PDF files to PowerPoint to allow you to customize the slides and combine the base presentations with your own credit union PowerPoint files. This is easily accomplished.

 

Option 1: Convert the PDF presentations to PowerPoint

1. Open a presentation PDF file in Acrobat DC (this will not work in Acrobat Reader).
2. Click on the Export PDF tool in the right pane.
3. Choose Microsoft PowerPoint as your export format.
4. Click Export.
5. Name the PowerPoint file and save it in a desired location.

If you do not have Acrobat DC, there are a number of free online tools that can convert a PDF to PowerPoint file. Here's three to consider:

• Smallpdf PDF to PPT Converter
• I Love PDF
• PDF Converter

Regardless of how you complete the conversion, you need to open your new PowerPoint file and double check to make sure that everything looks correct. There are two areas in particular to look for.

1. Missing fonts  It is unlikely that you will have the Brandon Text font family installed on your computer. We suggest using a simple sans serif font like Arial as a replacement. You may need to adjust the text frame sizes to accommodate your font choice. Our font license does not allow us to legally distribute font files to clients. If you are interested in purchasing the Brandon Text font family, it is available from MyFonts.com.
2. Shadows on graphics will appear blocky  During the conversion process, any shadows that we've added in InDesign will not translate correctly. Simply click on any of these blocks and hit the Delete key to remove them.

Option 2: Convert the PDF presentations to images and import into PowerPoint

This process requires Adobe Photoshop (or an another image-editing application) to accomplish. With this option, your slides will not be editable, but they will retain the exact look of the original slides in the PDF. You will be able to add your own slides to the presentation.

1. Open a presentation file in Adobe Photoshop, select all of pages and specify the size of 1920 x 1080 pixels.
2. Save each page as a JPG file.
3. Create a new PowerPoint file with the Widescreen (16:9) aspect ratio selected.
4. Create a blank slide and then insert Picture from File. The images will automatically fill the slide. Repeat this process for each image.