Thursday, October 1, 2015

Create PowerPoint editable icons on a Mac

Take an .ai, .eps, or .svg file of your icon artwork and open it in Adobe Illustrator.
isolate your artwork on a transparent background.
EXPORT the artwork as a .wmf file (.emf works also).
(okay you're done with Illustrator for now).

Open PowerPoint. Pull the wmf file in.
Now, send the file to a friend who has a PowerPoint on a PC.
Have them open the file you sent in PowerPoint. Now hit UNGROUP.
PowerPoint will warn you that the file is a picture, and ask you if you want to convert to a WMF file. Say yes. That's exactly what you want to do.

After you convert the file, ungroup it. there will be a bounding box you can delete. Now you have an icon that you can edit in powerpoint directly - i.e. color it, add an outline, etc.


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