Export PowerPoint to PDF with each animation on a separate slide

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One thing you can do is to create a slide before every change in the animation, that way you can export it to pdf.

another option can be to run through the animation and take screen shots at regular intervals and then store them together.

Third option can be to write a macro using vba where using the macro you can run the animation within the slide and at each change in the animation you can copy the current slide to a new slide and then save all as pdf.May i know if you have to press a key/mousecick or each single step is automatic transition?

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Updated on September 17, 2022

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bpa over 1 year
I have a PowerPoint presentation where I extensively use simple animations, only appear/disappear effects triggered by the mouse (not time based), without any smooth transitions.

Is it possible to export a PDF where every single step of the animation is on a separate slide?. The problem is that, exporting through the save-as menu, each slide in the pdf is just a snapshot of the corresponding powerpoint slide (with everything visible).

Example: Suppose I have the following slide that start visualizing the shape [A]:
```
[A]
```
clicking the mouse or pressing the right arrow triggers the 'appear' event for the shape [B]:
```
[A] -> [B]
```
clicking the mouse or pressing the right arrow triggers the 'disappear' event for the shape [A]:
```
       [B]
```
The PDF exported file of this PowerPoint animation will have a single slide with [A] -> [B], while I would like to have three separate slides.
bpa over 14 years

I've already considered the first two options but the problem is they are very "static". If I need to modify the animation or the shapes, than I have to repeat this long process. The third option seems very promising and will probably do the job, +1 thank you, but I have a lecture tomorrow... I hoped there was a quicker solution!
Admin over 14 years

Hi Massimo, it works perfectly! It gives me an error (n.380) but it produces the correct result anyway. Thanks for your efforts in writing this application, I hope that it will gain the deserved visibility because it's very difficult to find on google! As a side note, I've been using latex-beamer and it looks fantastic, but, ironically, it suffer from the opposite problem: it is difficult to join slides for handouts :) I wonder why
Admin over 12 years

Is there a way to get this working on a Mac?
Admin over 11 years

It works very well, even in Office 2013 on Windows 8! The only problem is that when the additional slides are created, the page number advances. It would be incredibly useful if the "expanded" slides conserved the the number of the original! (Or were called N-a, N-b, ...)
Admin over 10 years

Nooooo it's an exe... I'm lost!
Admin about 10 years

Sadly, it doesn't work (anymore) in Office 2013 as @JorgeGT said, maybe some updates have changed the way PowerPoint behaves. PowerPoint always crashes right after starting it when the add-in is activated. Nevertheless, thank you very much for writing the add-in. It's probably been much work!
Admin almost 10 years

I've just tested it with Office 2013 and it worked all right!
Admin over 9 years

Worked for me in Office 2013.
Admin over 8 years

Works perfectly with Office 2013 & Windows 7.
Admin over 8 years

Worked in Office 2013, but got lots of error messages saying it wasn't working.
Admin over 7 years

Office 2013 on Windows 10 also worked fine (and worked brilliantly - thanks!).
Admin over 5 years

Still works with Office 365 as of August 2018 on Windows 10
Admin about 4 years

February 2020, Office 16 -- works as expected! Thanks!
Admin about 3 years

April 2021, threw some errors because of new animations but worked!
Admin about 3 years

PPSplit failed for some presentations. This alternative worked for me: neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2007/11/powerpoint-pdf-part-2.html and vdmitriyev.github.io/blog/…