HiPix Wants to Stop People Emailing PDFs of Slides — With a PowerPoint Add‑in That Keeps Decks Editable

A new way to share slides without losing the ability to edit them

HiPix today launched a PowerPoint add-in designed to stop the old habit of turning slide decks into PDFs before emailing them. The company says the add-in exports fully editable PPTX files that arrive ready to open and adjust in PowerPoint, instead of frozen images inside PDFs. That small change is meant to save teams time, keep designs intact, and reduce the back-and-forth that happens when someone needs to tweak a single slide.

The product is pitched at anyone who sends slides by email: marketers prepping a campaign deck, agencies pitching a client, or sales teams that pass materials between reps and managers. Rather than sending a static file that must be recreated or painstakingly edited, HiPix wants recipients to open a normal PowerPoint file and edit it right away.

How the add-in actually works and what it supports

HiPix’s add-in installs into PowerPoint and adds an export option that produces a packaged PPTX file. The company says the file keeps slide layers, text boxes and fonts intact so recipients can edit what’s on the slide rather than being forced to retype or rebuild it. That approach differs from tools that create images or flattened slides that look the same but can’t be edited.

The add-in also aims to preserve work created in other design tools. HiPix says it can handle slides generated in Canva and those produced by AI slide‑creation tools, keeping the original elements editable where possible. In practice that means graphics brought in from Canva should remain as movable and resizable objects in PowerPoint instead of turning into single pictures.

On the technical side, HiPix reports compatibility with common PowerPoint environments, including desktop PowerPoint and Office 365 cloud accounts from Microsoft (MSFT). The company notes the add-in works with both web and desktop versions, so users can export and email a file from whichever PowerPoint they use. HiPix also emphasizes format fidelity, saying what you see in the sender’s app should closely match what the recipient opens.

HiPix has packaged the export so files are “email-ready,” meaning the output aims to be small enough and arranged so it can be attached to messages without extra steps. The company also called out basic security measures to prevent accidental loss of formatting and to avoid embedding unsafe code, though detailed enterprise security claims were light in the announcement.

Practical ways teams will use this — and why it matters

The main advantage for most users is saving time. Agencies that finalize a deck and then get a handful of edit requests from clients will no longer need to rebuild slides from a PDF or hope the client’s edits land cleanly. Sales teams can send a polished deck that managers can tweak immediately for a localization or a last-minute chart update.

For teams that use AI to generate slides, the add-in promises to reduce the friction of turning AI‑drafted ideas into usable assets. Instead of exporting an AI-generated slide as an image and losing the ability to edit text or move elements, recipients would get a working PPTX that they can quickly refine.

Design fidelity is another selling point. HiPix says it preserves fonts and layout so decks keep their look across different machines — an ongoing annoyance for anyone who has received a deck with broken type or shuffled graphics.

Why replacing PDFs is harder than it sounds

PDFs became the default because they reliably preserve layout and are easy to view across devices. Competing with that requires both technical compatibility and cultural change. Google (GOOGL) Slides, Canva and Microsoft’s own collaboration features solve parts of the problem: cloud-based editing and sharing reduce the need to attach files at all. But many teams still use email and prefer a single file attached to a message.

HiPix’s pitch sits between those worlds. It keeps the simplicity of sending a file by email while trying to deliver the editability people like about cloud tools. The hurdles are familiar: getting organizations to install a new add-in, ensuring compatibility across versions of PowerPoint, and convincing people that an attached PPTX is as safe and predictable as a PDF.

What HiPix says and who’s behind the product

In its announcement HiPix framed the add-in as a small but meaningful fix to how professionals share slides. The company said the goal is to “end the PDF era for emailed slides” and to make it easy for recipients to pick up where the sender left off.

HiPix is a younger tools company working in the productivity and design space. The firm has focused on presentation workflow fixes and integrations prior to this launch; the new add-in is its most direct push at changing the standard way teams email decks. Details about company size and prior funding were not a focus of the release, which emphasized product features and early customer scenarios instead.

Availability, pricing and the next moves to watch

The add-in is available now for download, according to HiPix, and supports both desktop and web versions of PowerPoint through Office 365. Pricing was described as part of a commercial offering but the announcement did not include a detailed public price list for large organizations.

What to watch next: enterprise rollouts and deeper integrations. If HiPix can get IT teams comfortable with the add-in and demonstrate consistent fidelity across large, messy slide decks, it stands a chance at nudging people away from the PDF habit. If not, the convenience of PDF — and the built-in sharing tools inside apps like Microsoft (MSFT) PowerPoint and Google Slides — will keep the old workflow alive.

Sources

• prnewswire.com