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@whitehawkJulie, sorry for the delay in getting the notification. So, I checked #3947, and I need something else. The Export to PPTX feature in Excalidraw+ just exports slides as pictures and generate PPTX file. My goal is to export a vector object from Excalidraw to PPTX. I want to be able to modify the object inside PPTX because the animations I'm using are from PPTX. As a workaround, I export every drawing as a PNG and use it in PPTX, but it's very time-consuming to make the presentations because I need to align objects that I picture, not o can modify them. @maielo, is there any plan to export objects from excalidraw to PPTX |
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This would be great, would love to export Excalidraw slides as pptx and then add the capabilities of Powerpoint (transitions/animations) to it. |
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Definitely needed. I just made a PPT but had diagram in excalidraw. Took me lot of time to export groups of objects and align all of them |
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hey @vhristev, I just tried it with pptgenjs lib and it worked. imp: I did everything by asking co-pilot and happily it did for me. Considering frames as Slides and export. |
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Hey @D4D-Developer , Not sure what Currently, what I'm doing is:
In PowerPoint I just drag and drop the SVG and then select it and "Ungroup" 
This converts the image to objects. Just to say it's not a perfect object, but it's much, much better than dealing with images. 
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@vhristev - apologies for the late response. If you observe, widget "types" of excalidraw widgets and microsoft powerpoint widgets are different. You need to first have correct mapping of these widget "types" and then export the widgets to ppt using pptgenjs(easily doable by cursor, tried and tested). Imagine, you have Frames(a widget in excalidraw) in excalidraw canvas which you consider as Slides(Should have fixed size, cursor can help here) and then think of the widgets inside the Frame as Slide widgets and then export. Steps- P.S.- Hope you are able to implement it like above. I have already done it using Cursor. Feel free to ask further. |
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Anyone ? @maielo any change that idea is in the project roadmap plan ? |
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Anyone. |
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have you tried importing as svg an importing it to Powerpoint? or converting svg to EMF and then importing? Also exporting single item at a time seems to work better as ungrouping the svg may make your image not appear very nice depending on several factors. For example, text does not do well once ungrouped. |
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Thanks for your proposals - but I think it is obvious, that this is a mess (sorry - don't want to blame helpers - I mean the technical situation). Clicks and clicks and clicks and than an export, navigating through the file system with the export, navigating again from powerpoints import dialog box for the import - (and I am sure one of both tools will always forget the last used folder) - select the file type, select then the files. And this feels even more annoying than my long sentence read. What is requried is: select + ctrc c + ctrl v. Then there would be a workflow with really valuable results. The compromises are fine for one slide, maybe two. But honestly it is killing every serious work approach when this sideload makes more mouse miles than the real work, isn't it? In a nutshell: I would vote for this request. |
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Hey team, There's a way to export drawings from Excalidraw to PowerPoint as editable objects/vectors, not just a flat image. Here's how: in Excalidraw, right-click your drawing and choose "Copy to clipboard as SVG" (or export as SVG from the export menu), instead of PNG. The difference is that PNG is just a grid of pixels, while SVG stores the actual vector shape data, so it can be "broken apart" into real objects. After that, paste/insert the SVG into PowerPoint. Click on it, a "Graphics Format" tab will show up in the ribbon, then click "Convert to Shape". PowerPoint will ask for confirmation, just click Yes. After that, right-click again and choose "Ungroup" (sometimes you need to do it twice) - now the drawing is broken down into real PowerPoint shapes that you can edit, recolor, and most importantly, use with the Morph/Transform effect for animations. Note that "Convert to Shape" is only available in PowerPoint 2019 / Office 365 and newer, older versions don't have it. Also keep in mind the result isn't always perfect - for simple Excalidraw drawings (lines, arrows, boxes) it usually converts cleanly, but the more complex the drawing (lots of text, gradients, etc.), the more manual cleanup you might need after converting. Text inside the SVG sometimes gets converted into paths/shapes too, rather than staying as editable text. But this is still way better than the usual "copy as image" approach, since that gives you a PNG (raster), and PowerPoint can't convert a raster image into shapes - the feature only works with vector graphics like SVG. Hope this helps! |
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@Momoru2002 But at receiver software I cannot reproduce your solution. I get only a textbox with the SVG code inside and the activated ribbon is the one for shapes. I cannot find the "convert" command. I also inspected the insert options: sometimes here we can decide if something should come as graphic, text, image, OLE etc. - but in PPT Version 2608 / 365 I have only this text-in-textbox way. Since we are now with SVG I tried to go via Inkscape - there I could not insert anything :-( From there on I see, what you mean with "isn't always" perfect. Yes, the handdrawn style is transfered by using paths. So a Excalidraw rectangle is not brought as a PowerPoint shape rectangle. Instead we receive a bunch of lines with points. That would not matter - but based on this it is not possible to change the fill color (since there is no fill area - just the path, pretending some rectangular thing but it is not). Lines/arrows don't snap etc. So the fantasy to use Excalidraw as a kind of fancyfying driver for some advanced PPT style does not come true. Or at least: it may not be impossible - but an Excalidraw look in PowerPoint has to be paid with a lot of restrictions. Unfortuately 😞 |
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Hey team,
Do you have any idea how I can export drawings from Excalidraw to PowerPoint as objects, vectors, etc.?
I'm totally in love with Excalidraw. For the last three years, I've made all my presentations with it, but just the drawings. I'm using PowerPoint "transform" for slides to make drawings move/resize...etc.
The main problem is that I draw in Excali, copy it as an image, and paste it into PowerPoint. Because it's an image, not an object, it's tough to make that presentation. It's super time-consuming. Is there a way or feature request for that?
You may suggest Excalidraw presentations, but I cannot make those animations the way I want them to be. Back in the days in VMware, we had icons packed, which are objects.
Here is a video to see the animation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UNlxLgsNd2U&t=365
Here are some lectures:
https://github.com/DojoBits/cncf/blob/main/cncf-bulgaria-meetup-2024-may.pdf
https://github.com/vhristev/cncf-bulgaria-meetup-2024-feb/blob/main/CNCF-Bulgaria-Meetup-cotainers-security-final.pdf
https://github.com/vhristev/OpenFest2022/blob/main/000_Full_presentation.pdf
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