Provide the location of your output file, as well as its name, and choose PPT as the file format from the drop-down menu. It is also open source and very popular among computer users.Ĭreate new slides with a simple right click mouse action (see image).Īdd animation effects for each slide by clicking on the 'Add' button from the 'Custom Animation' window on the right side of the interface.Īfter adding all the desired elements, creating all the slides and choosing the effects, go to the 'File' menu and click on 'Save As'.

The OpenOffice Impress 4.1 (Open Source), part of the OpenOffice software suite (the open source alternative to Microsoft Office) by The Apache Software Foundation was chosen for the guide, because it is one of the few applications that can help you create PPT presentations using SVG vector images. If you want to insert animated images into your PowerPoint presentations or simply want to use vector graphics instead of raster images (they can store images having a better quality), then applying SVG pictures seems to be a good idea. This type of file is mainly used for displaying 2D scalable images in XML pages on the web and it is supported by every major Internet browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera).

SVG is one of the most popular vector graphics formats (an image file generated with mathematical equations). But, before showing you how to do this, let's talk a bit about the SVG format.

How to convert SVG to PPT with OpenOffice ImpressĬreating PPT presentations from SVG vector graphics can prove to be quite a difficult task, as there aren't many applications that can help users with that.

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