How to print Google Slides with comments

A slide printout can show the design while leaving out the discussion that explains what needs to change. For a review meeting, you need the slide and its feedback together.

Why the usual printout is not enough

Google Slides’ standard print and PDF export focus on the presentation pages. Native comment threads live in the review interface; they are not ordinary text boxes on the slide. Standard output does not provide a convenient printable review document containing those conversations.

Speaker notes are different from comments. Printing notes can help a presenter, but it does not include the reviewers’ native comment threads and replies. Copying feedback into notes by hand also creates a second version to keep up to date.

Create a printable review in three steps

Choose a Google Slides presentation. Open Comments2PDF, sign in with Google and select one presentation in the file picker. Use the Google account that can view that file and its comments.
Review slides and comments. Check the slide previews and native threads. Include replies for the conversation, author names for attribution and dates for timing. Use All, Open only or Resolved only to choose which feedback appears.
Print the review. Select Print / Save PDF. Choose your printer in the browser dialog, or choose Save as PDF to keep a digital copy. Inspect the preview before confirming.

Choose a layout for the conversation

Comments beside the slide make short feedback easy to scan against the image. Comments below the slide give long discussions more horizontal space. The review uses A4 print styling, keeps slide proportions and allows lengthy threads to continue across pages rather than shrinking the text.

Author names and dates can be hidden independently. Open/resolved labels show the status received from Google; changing a filter does not resolve or edit a source comment. Slides without comments remain in the document, so the sequence still makes sense.

Check before handing out the printout

Look at Other / Unmatched comments at the end. If a thread cannot be linked confidently to a slide, it stays there instead of being placed on a guessed slide. Exact comment pins inside slide images are not reproduced.

Wait for slide previews to finish loading. If one is unavailable, its comments can still print; choose the presentation again if you need to refresh the image. Print settings differ by browser, so check page breaks and browser-added headers or footers in the preview.