PowerPoint for Mac: Create PDF with no margin / border

When using PowerPoint 2008 or 2011 for Mac OS X, it's not obvious how to get your presentation to print to a PDF of exactly the content that shows on the screen. Of course, you may want to do exactly that for a wide variety of reasons (such as showing it cross-platform or not having PowerPoint on the computer you'll use to show it.) The problem is that, as PowerPoint saves PDFs usually, it either squishes or cuts off content, or else extends past the screen display margins and puts a bunch of whitespace around.

In order to create exactly-sized PDFs with no margin, border, or whitespace, such as would be suitable for displaying in full-screen mode, you need to follow the instructions in this video.

Hat tip ChrisRJAgnew at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2008-macpowerpoint/power-point-savingconverting-to-pdf-with-white/3be83267-4256-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5?msgId=eb2c395c-4a56-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5&page=2

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September's fifth 2013
trying to describe how to get
powerpoint for the mac to take a
non-standard
sized
presentation
and say that to PDF
at exactly the screen
exactly the size of the slide as it gets
projected on the screen so
no margins nothing beyond it not showing
the unprintable outside area on display
at Law Center just exactly what would be
shown in a presentation but putting that
in a PDF that suitable then for
displaying cross-platform or taking a
full screen on different monitor or
putting into a different program which
is surprising people
ok
powerpoint let's create a new
presentation
so let's create a new presentation with
a non-standard slide size
so
a recent one
similarity
now if you try to
save as PDF
to demonstrate the problem
here's the problem
this white area
produced and it makes it so that you
cannot
full screen with your
PDF which makes it unsuitable for you
institution
which sometimes you want to do you use
on a computer
does not have power . there's a
different operating system or whatever
you tried to use the old trick of going
to print and print to PDF and open media
preview okay it's going to try to force
the slide onto the in half by
also not what you want you want to see
the whole slide so this is two problems
everyone there's too much up on top
and there's not enough on the side so it
cuts off the slide and put waste so
double bad
so
what is to be done turns out you need to
do two things
so go to print the easiest way to
youtube page setup
here you'll see the slide slide sizes
here or custom i'm assuming that this is
exactly
we've set up it could be something else
like these
in our case template designer set it to
these sizes now
take note of the 13.3 37.5 for the with
you need to go to options
and you need to change the paper size
here now again we're not actually going
to
to do this to to print this here so you
created a virtual paper size
I've created one called widescreen no
margin here
creating finger says click here you can
title it
seven
this is what it should look like
for our situation where we have with of
13 13 + 7.5 you invert the with
paper size and then you said it
user-defined non-credible . 0 on all
sides
set that up tell it to
that that way here now you've got these
13 13 by 7 15 slides are now going to be
for some paper that's 7.5 x 13.33
current page that succeeds rental area
fix it
yes that's fine
fix and wawa we can see from
preview that it
now go
PDF preview
and sure enough
it looks appropriate
going to bleed out to the edges no added
white space and we've got the entire
width of the slides that goes out either
something
now
you then in turn can use this and go
full screen presentation
what you are going to save as PDF fine
there you have it
the solution to this incredibly works
and problem