Upload a PDF, PowerPoint, or web deck

Every format renders full-bleed and tracks per slide. PowerPoint keeps its animations.

Updated July 11, 2026

You've already built the deck in Keynote, PowerPoint, Gamma, or a browser tool. HoldFast doesn't ask you to rebuild it. Upload the file you have and you get one branded, full-bleed link that renders edge to edge on any screen and reports back which slides actually got read. Here's what each format gives you.

Pick a format, drop the file

From a presentation's Settings, choose Upload a file. Three kinds land cleanly:

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PDF, PPTX, or HTML/zip bundle. Each renders full-bleed.

• PDF (.pdf): the safe bet. Crisp, selectable text, exactly the layout you exported, and full per-slide analytics. When in doubt, export to PDF and upload that.
• PowerPoint (.pptx): your animations and transitions come along, so a build that reveals one bullet at a time still reveals one bullet at a time. If a very complex deck doesn't render cleanly, export it to PDF and upload that instead.
• HTML bundle (.html, or a .zip with an index.html inside): a self-contained web export from Gamma, Pitch, Framer, reveal.js, Slidev, or anything similar. Zips are unpacked for you, and the cover is picked up automatically.

Whatever you upload, HoldFast hosts and serves it full-bleed. There's nothing to configure and nothing to wait on.

Your cover is a real screenshot

The thumbnail, and the preview that shows when the link is pasted into an email or a chat, is a screenshot of the deck exactly as it opens, not a generic file icon. So the link looks like your work before anyone clicks it.

Every upload is kept

Re-exports pile up, and that's fine. Each file you upload becomes a version in Settings → Versions. You can roll back to an earlier one instantly, rename it, or delete the ones you don't need. The original and the currently-live version are protected, so you can't strand the deck by accident. Uploading a corrected file doesn't break the link or change the URL: your reader still opens the same /d/… address and simply sees the new cut.

Then watch the slides

Once it's live, send the link and open Insights. Per-slide dwell time, scroll depth, completion, and CTA clicks tell you which slides landed and where a reader stalled. To put a company or a name to those reads, and to lock the deck down first, see Protect a deck & track engagement. Prefer to keep your deck live in Google Slides or Figma instead of uploading a file? See Embed Google Slides, Figma, or Canva.