I'm trying to create a link to a Google Slides presentation that will open in a browser as a PDF. I've tried changing the end of the URL from edit?usp=sharing to export?format=pdf and a few variations with no success. My suspicions were confirmed after reading this article from how-to geek that asserts the technique does not work with Google Slides. Does anyone know of a technique that does work on Google Slides or a work-around?
Link to view PDF version of a Google Slides in browser
google-slidespdf
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Replace the beginning of the url with the Google Docs viewer.
This is what you need:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://docs.google.com/x/yyyy/document/z/nvjsinmsdfjnlsnlkkn-hslknl1_V7sc/export?format=pdf
According to Download a file the available formats to download presentations are PDF, PPTX and TXT, but the "Download as" menu option, shows other formats like JPG, PNG and SVG. The "problem" with this solution is that this options exports only one slide at a time.
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As a regular presenter, it's pretty common that people want a copy of the slides. I happily share them when requested but always wondered if there was a way to understand which parts of the presentation they were really interested in.
You can check out this tool that I came across recently that allows for audiences to access a PDF of the presentation on demand while also delivering engagement stats to the presenter.
Pretty cool and has led to some good follow ups with potential customers for me.