PDF export

A PDF that is actually a PDF

Not a stack of screenshots with a .pdf extension. Real vector text and shapes, your fonts embedded, sharp at any zoom.

Most slide exports are pictures wearing a PDF costume

Rasterised slides look acceptable until someone tries to select a sentence, search the file, or print it at full size. Then the text turns soft, the copy button does nothing, and the handout looks worse on paper than it did on screen.

What you get

  • Real vector text and shapes — selectable, searchable, sharp at any zoom
  • Your fonts embedded in the file, so it renders the same on a machine that has never seen them
  • LaTeX equations typeset properly, not pasted in as images
  • Charts and tables exported as vectors rather than screenshots
  • One export that works for handouts, archives and print

Vector text versus a picture of a slide

Mosra PDFSlides exported as images
Text selectableYesNo
Searchable in a PDF readerYesNo
Readable by a screen readerYesNo
Stays sharp when zoomedYesBlurs
FontsEmbeddedBaked into pixels
File size on a text-heavy deckSmallerLarger

How it works

1

Build the deck

Text, images, charts, equations — whatever the lesson needs.

2

Open Export

PDF sits at the top of the export list. There is nothing to configure.

3

Print or share it

The file behaves like a document, because that is what it is.

What this does not do

  • A PDF is a static document. Animations, transitions, video and interactive questions have no PDF equivalent — the slide is exported as it looks at rest.
  • It is not a tagged, WCAG-conformant accessible PDF. The text is real text, which is most of the way there, but there is no reading-order or heading structure yet.
  • Effects a PDF cannot express are rasterised rather than dropped. The page still looks right; that part of it stops being vector.

Questions

Can I select and copy text from the PDF?

Yes. The text is real text, not part of an image, so selection, copy and full-text search all work — including search inside your LMS or document management system.

What happens to my fonts?

They are embedded in the file. Someone opening it on a machine that has never installed those fonts still sees the deck exactly as you designed it, with no substitution surprises.

Do maths equations survive the export?

Yes, and as text rather than pictures. LaTeX equations are typeset in the PDF itself, so they stay crisp when printed or zoomed.

Export one and look closely

Free while we build in the open. Try selecting the text — that is the whole difference.