: Make Illustrator Infographics Fully editable in PowerPoint I create complex infographics in Illustrator that include both shape and text elements. From time to time my clients need a fully editable
I create complex infographics in Illustrator that include both shape and text elements. From time to time my clients need a fully editable version that they can manipulate using only Microsoft office programs. I'd like to find a tool that will convert Illustrator files into fully editable PowerPoint text and shapes with formatting preserved.
I've tried the editable PDF to powerpoint and exporting as .wmf and ungrouping in powerpoint. In both cases the text is often broken apart into random chunks (sometimes the conversion places each letter of a word in its own text box) requiring me to manually replace and reformat most of the text.
Does anyone know of a technique or a program that could help?
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I can suggest two options, neither of which will give you a clean and tidy solution.
You export the illustrator artwork to svg or emf (you can use the svg in LibreOffice as and odp file) things like dropshadows and and other path effects should be expanded. Once you have the svg or emf/at a reasonable facsimile to the illustrator file you should be able to change the color and and text in libre office impress as you would in Illustrator, I will be very blunt and tell you the quality of the vector objects will change both emf and svg have different ways they interpret the vector information from a postscript based file like .ai
You export the sections of the illustration as raster files and place them accurately in PowerPoint, using the text box took you apply the text over each image.
In both scenarios you will absolutely end up with a massive large PowerPoint file after converting from odp in libreoffice after you've converted it to an svg
from illustrator
Instead of relying on PowerPoint to save your client wouldn't it make more sense to to create a minisite they can use through the browser. I'm refering specifically to Prezi.com.
You can try to create the image-part of your infographic in Illustrator and then add the text-component in PowerPoint.
You can embed fonts in the PowerPoint-File if you require this (tutorial).
This will work for simple Infographics but will become tedious and brittle for more complex ones.
Keep in mind that while this allows customizing the displayed text by your client but not overall composition. It also does not guarantee that it will look the same way on any machine. Image/Text alignment may vary between different instances of PowerPoint.
Also PowerPoint is much less powerful when dealing with Text that Illustrator.
Other than that, no. It's not possible to give someone full ability to edit your graphics if this Person is using just PowerPoint.
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