About presentations in Acrobat Studio

The Generate presentation tool in Adobe Acrobat uses generative AI and Adobe Express design capabilities to build structured, ready-to-edit presentations from simple prompts or existing documents. Whether you’re preparing a sales pitch, business proposal, or academic presentation, the tool helps you generate clear and visually consistent presentations.

How the tool works

The Generate presentation tool in Adobe Acrobat quickly turns your ideas or documents into polished, ready-to-edit slides. Simply provide a prompt or upload files, and the tool generates a structured presentation with intelligent layouts and visuals. No need to create slides manually. Describe what you need, then customize and refine. Learn how to create an AI-powered presentation.

Access and availability

• Access points: The presentation tool is available in both web and desktop apps, but desktop access opens the web interface, as the generation runs on the web. You can access it from the homepage, the Create tab, PDF Spaces, and the document view. 
• Languages & regions: Available in English and French in countries where Adobe Acrobat is offered.
• Availability: Available for Individual, Teams (Direct and VIP), and Enterprise (EVIP and ETLA) subscriptions.

Adobe is gradually adding support for more subscription types, languages, and regions.

Ways to begin 

You can generate a presentation using:

• Text prompts only: Set the audience, tone, and structure to start from scratch. You can use up to 1,000 words.
• File uploads: Upload your content in multiple formats, such as PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images, and web links, and then describe the presentation you want to create. You can upload up to 10 documents (150 pages total).
• PDF Spaces: Start a presentation from your PDF Space. The tool analyzes all files, extracts key insights, and creates customizable slide content.

Example prompts

Elements that shape your presentation

You can refine and personalize your AI-generated presentation to make it polished, visually appealing, and tailored to your audience.

Key elements

• Audience: Customize content for your audience. Select from options like executives, technical specialists, or create your own audience.
• Tone: Choose formal for proposals, conversational for team meetings, or educational for training.
• Length & detail: Set slide count and level of detail for quick overviews or deep dives.
• Template: Pick a design style; you can change it later.

Enhancements

• Recreate slide: Update content and let AI redesign the slide with layouts and visuals that match your changes.
• Edit page: Translate for localization, resize for social posts or infographics, and add animations, captions, or rephrased text to improve storytelling.
• Manual editing in Adobe Express: Fine-tune text and layout, add charts, tables, and AI-generated images, and apply new design templates for a fresh visual style.

Images in generated presentations

Visuals in your generated presentations come from two sources:

• Adobe Stock images: The tool suggests Adobe Stock images based on your slide content and theme. To check an image’s source and license, right-click and select Source info.
• Source document images: The tool uses images from your uploaded files. To exclude them, go to Customize > Settings and deselect the Include file images checkbox. When off, only Adobe Stock images are used.

Image usage rights

• Acrobat Studio subscribers have access to the same Adobe Stock image library and usage rights as Adobe Express Premium users. However, this does not include every image in the Stock collection.
• The Generate presentation feature in Adobe Acrobat has certain usage limitations; users may receive a limited number of complimentary generations to try the service, after which users must purchase a plan entitling Acrobat AI Assistant features to continue use. Adobe reserves the right to update usage limits or to throttle or suspend usage that exceeds our limits at any time.