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My pain point with these tools has been that my presentation ultimately ends up in the hands of business users, and they expect an editable PowerPoint. This includes native charts/visuals/tables. They don't like giving up control and get frustrated if a chart is an image or an SVG shape. Even when these tools export to PowerPoint, there is no native chart capability.

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Here is a trick for you if you want some to have a somewhat editable SVG chart in PowerPoint.

Import your SVG in LibreOffice Impress, right click on it and select "Break", save your file as a .pptx, open your file in PowerPoint, copy the chart to your presentation.

I have used it a few times because I generated my charts using graphviz and the business people wanted something editable within PowerPoint. It is far from perfect because anchors are not supported, but it is enough to do minor modifications like fixing typos or changing the font for something similar sized.

Do you mean anchors as in clickable objects, or do you mean attachments points on nodes for incident edges that stay attached if the node is dragged?

Do you represent the graphviz team? If so, thank you, awesome tool.

I mean attachment points. I didn't need clickable objects in my presentation so I don't know about them.

Yes. Is there a specification for what we need to implement? The native SVG generator is easily modified.

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