Illustrator converts to Powerpoint?!

[chopin1979]

I've been supplied with 400 diagrams as illustrator eps that my client wants converted into Powerpoint slides.

First of all I converted them to gifs and simply imported them in to the PPT.

However, they want all the objects within the eps to be separate powerpoint objects so they can animate and change text when they want to.

Other than redrawing all the diagrams in powerpoint.... Does anyone know of a way to do this?

 

[jimoblak]

Try exporting from Illustrator as WMF. This is the same format as Microsoft Office clip art. The Powerpoint user can 'ungroup' any WMF file and apply edits.

 

[chopin1979]

Thanks jimoblak.

This worked pretty well. Text objects were an issue, but it's probably best to copy and paste text and reformat in powerpoint anyway.

Ungroup worked fine. Of course, it can ungroup things you don't want ungrouped! A couple of minutes regrouping boxes with their borders etc soon sorted this out.