Lossless pages for slides, charts and diagrams
JPG saves space by blurring fine detail slightly, which is invisible in a photo but shows around text and thin lines as faint smudges. PNG keeps every pixel exactly. For pages that are mostly text, flat colour and sharp edges, PNG looks cleaner, especially when the image will be zoomed, projected or placed into another document.
Use PDF to PNG for:
- a slide from a PDF deck, to put into your own presentation;
- a chart or table, to paste into a report, an email or a wiki page;
- a diagram, floor plan or flowchart where thin lines matter;
- a page of text you want to quote as an image without fuzzy letters.
For scans and pages full of photos, use PDF to JPG instead. PNG gains nothing on a photo and makes the file several times bigger.
Quality
| Setting | An A4 page becomes |
|---|---|
| Standard, 150 DPI | 1240 × 1754 pixels |
| High, 200 DPI | 1654 × 2339 pixels |
| Print, 300 DPI | 2480 × 3508 pixels |
For a slide in a 16:9 presentation, High is plenty. For a figure in a printed document, or a chart someone will crop into, choose Print. Very large pages are capped at about 16 million pixels so phone browsers can draw them.
Size to expect
A page of text and simple graphics at High is usually a few hundred KB as PNG. A page with a big photo can be several MB. If the image is going into an upload form with a size limit, PDF to JPG gives much smaller files.
Choose pages, download
Under More options, type the pages you want, like 4 or 2-5, so you don’t have to sort through a whole deck. Files are named like deck-page-04.png, numbered so they sort in order. Several come together in one .zip.
The background
PDF pages are drawn on white, as they look in any PDF reader. Areas that look see-through in a design app still come out white in the PNG.
To turn images back into a PDF later, PNG to PDF places PNGs without any loss.
Checked against the tool on 22 October 2026. How we write and test these guides