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petenic
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October 1, 2013
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Illustrator CS6 to Powerpoint 2011 (Mac)

  • October 1, 2013
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Hi All,

Please help, I've been searching for hours trying to find a solution to this and can only find a patch for CS5!

How can you export vectors from Illustrator CS6 to PowerPoint allowing them to be editable in Powerpoint? I've tried every vector format (ai, eps, pdf, wmf, emf and on importing/pasting/paste specialing (which used to work in older versions of Illustrator) but it seems to either rasterize, or fill the bounding box. The shapes themselves are not editable in any form, colouring or otherwise.

Please help!

Thanks

Pete

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sofwares
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October 18, 2014

Hi,

I hope you this might work for you, vector image in illustrator, i have saved as .tiff, and placed in illustrator, converted to image trace(silhouette) in Color / back & white. and expanded the image trace. Copied converted vector image and paste special as .emf file in power-point, by above method, i can able to recolor(gradient or any single color) as a clip art in power-point silhouette vector.

Thanks and Regards,

Rajendra

Doug A Roberts
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Doug A RobertsCommunity Expert
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October 1, 2013

this is a powerpoint question rather than an illustrator one, but if you place your EPS you should be able to right-click it, ungroup, and PP will ask you if you want to make it into a microsoft drawing object (or somethingorother). then you can ungroup that and edit the vectors freely.

edit: after playing around with it though, gawd. i wouldn't bother. it doesn't seem to know what illy's curves are and splits them into dozens of tiny straight paths.

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petenicAuthor
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October 1, 2013

Unfortunately not, it used to work but it seems that since we've upgraded to CS6 the compatibilty has gone.

An example would be a map of North America. I've created a vector map, each state is essentially an individual shape so I can select and change colours as required. You used to be able to copy and paste special straight into PP, keeping all shapes individually. Now, copying and pasting, or importing any vector file I seem to get no option to 'Ungroup' the shape. If I change the colour, I lose the transparency and the bounding box fills with the new colour.

It's driving me mad, it used to be possible from CS3. We upgraded to CS6 a while ago and have not needed (fortunately) to do any Powerpoint work since, now we're re-jigging old projects for a client and can't get it done. We haven't upgraded PP, which is why I'm posting in the Illustrator forum.

Appreciate your help guys!

Pete

Mylenium
Mylenium
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October 1, 2013

Not sure what you are trying to say. I can only say from the Windows side that this would be perfectly normal - PP never has allowed to edit custom vector graphics beyond transforming or coloring them with the built-in tools, causing them to be rasterized and converted to bitmaps. So unless you mean something completely different, i tend to think what you see is probably normal...

Mylenium

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