Exporting is how a deck leaves your machine, and RixSlides keeps it simple and faithful: File, Export as PDF produces a share-ready handout, and PNG export renders each slide as a per-slide image. Both come from the same high-fidelity engine that draws your editing canvas, so the exported file is exactly the deck you rehearsed — fonts, shapes, charts, WordArt, equations and all.
Export a PDF handout
- Finish the deck. Run the slide QC agent first — overflow found in a PDF is overflow found by your audience.
- Open File, Export as PDF.
- Choose the destination folder and confirm.
- Open the PDF and spot-check the title slide plus your densest content slide before sending it anywhere.
The PDF preserves the deck's appearance: layout, colors, tables, chart styling and text render as the canvas does. For most audiences — reviewers, email recipients, archives, print shops — the PDF handout is the right artifact: it opens everywhere, does not require Rixoffice, and cannot be accidentally edited.
What PDF is for, and what it is not
PDF freezes timing. Animations collapse to their final states, video shows its poster frame, audio shows its icon. That is a feature for a handout — readers get the conclusions, not the build — and the wrong medium for a demo. When the experience matters, send the .pptx: media is embedded, animations are native parts, and any compliant viewer plays them.
Export PNG images
- Choose PNG export from the file menu.
- Pick the destination folder and confirm.
- RixSlides renders each slide to a .png — one image per slide, in slide order.
Per-slide PNGs are the format for everything that is not a document: a slide dropped into a chat message, images embedded in a web page or knowledge base, visuals pasted into a report built elsewhere, thumbnails for a video edit. Because each slide is one self-contained image, PNGs survive contexts where a PDF page would be cropped or misread.
| Destination | Best export |
|---|---|
| Email attachment for review | |
| Print shop or archive | |
| Chat message, one slide | PNG |
| Website or documentation | PNG |
| Leave-behind with live media | The .pptx itself |
| Course platform slides | PDF or PNG, per the platform |
Fidelity: why exports match the canvas
RixSlides is a byte-fidelity .pptx editor with a high-fidelity render engine, and exports share that engine. The practical consequences:
- Preset geometry shapes, tables and native charts render with their true appearance, not approximations.
- WordArt and equations keep their treatment in the PDF instead of degrading.
- The PNG of slide twelve is the same image the projector showed in PresenterView.
There is no separate export pipeline to drift out of sync — what you edit is what exports.
A short pre-export routine
- Run the slide QC agent and accept fixes.
- Flip the thumbnail rail once for stray placeholders or test content.
- Confirm sections read correctly in sequence — the PDF page order is the thumbnail order.
- Export, then open the output and check the first and a dense middle slide.
Two minutes of checking prevents the classic "the PDF has slide nine's old numbers" email.
What to explore next
- Slide QC agent as the pre-export gate.
- PNG image export for Rixoffice's image-export capabilities across apps.
- PDF support for what the PDF Editor can do with the exported file.