Turn a PDF into an editable presentation, one slide per page — the fastest way to take over a deck you only have as a PDF.
Each page of the PDF becomes a slide, in order. That is exactly right for decks exported to PDF, and usually right for handouts; it is wrong for a 200-page report, which you should split into the pages you actually want to present before converting.
Text arrives as text boxes you can retype and restyle. Images arrive as pictures. What does not survive is master-slide logic: the result has no theme, no layouts and no placeholders, so restyling is manual work. Converting is a head start, not a finished deck.
If the original used a font you do not have, the substitution can reflow the text. Open the file on the machine you will present from, not only on the one that produced it.
Split or extract those pages first, then convert — you get a deck without the material you did not want.
PDF does not carry speaker notes, so there is nothing to recover.
Slides adopt the page proportions; a wide screen deck may need a size adjustment.