: Rountrip from Illustrator->PowerPoint->Illustrator I have a fair amount of experience working with Illustrator from taking some graphic design classes in high school. I've recently started working

@Debbie163

Creating PPT shapes in Illustrator.

I do this practically everyday:

Create shape in Illustrator, export as .emf from Illustrator.
PLACE .emf into PowerPoint. Ungroup .emf. (Answer "Yes" to "do you want to convert to a MS Office drawing object")

UNGROUP AGAIN. This reveals an invisible bounding bound on top of your shape. Select the invisible bounding box, drag to the side, and delete.

Regroup your remaining shape elements.
You have now created a resolution-independent PPT shape, resizable without resolution loss. Any color can be applied to the new shape by choosing Shape Fill. If there are multiple items grouped within your shape, it is possible of course to color each of them different colors.

If you can figure out how to Paste Special in PowerPoint, you can copy directly from the Illustrator art board into PPTx, saving a couple of the above steps.

Hope this answers at least part of your dilemma.

cheers

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@Si6392903

There is NO reliable way to do this. Powerpoint is a very bad program to preserve imported paths. The EMF and WMF are very buggy vector file formats.

I would ask, What is the purpose of the images? What kind of images are thoose?

If they are ment to stay in power point, then you probably should learn how to stick into power point's features.

If they are for printing there is no need to import them back into poweer point. You should not. So the planning process of that project should be reviewed.

Your boss probably want to keep working with power point becouse it is the only program he knows.

But if the technical requirements asks for another aplication you should consider it. There is a chance you find another kind of program you both can use.

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