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Importing diagrams from LibreOffice

One of the nice things about LibreOffice Impress is that it has a built-in diagram editor. However you can still use this for building diagrams for reveal.js presentations! Here's how.

If you already have an existing diagram in LibreOffice Impress:

  • Select the whole diagram, and copy it to the clipboard.
  • File > New > Drawing
  • Paste the selection into the new LibreOffice Draw document
  • Skip to the "Export as SVG" section below.

Alternatively, you can simply create one directly in LibreOffice Draw.

Next, export the diagram from LibreOffice Draw as SVG:

  • Select the whole diagram in the new document.
  • File > Export
  • Ensure the Selection checkbox is ticked.
  • Export as an .svg file.

Finally, include it in your Markdown, e.g.

<img src="images/my-diagram.svg" />

and add CSS styles for size, positioning etc.

Dealing with buggy export

It seems that LibreOffice Draw does not always reliably export a selection as SVG :-( If you experience this, you may have more luck with the following approach:

  • Use the selection tool to draw a box around the area you want to export, and note the exact dimensions of the box.
  • Format > Page
    • Set the width and height to those dimensions
    • Set all the margins to zero
  • Select all objects and move them to be inside the new page dimensions.
  • Export as before, but this time do not select the Selection checkbox.

Importing from other diagramming software

Of course, you can apply a similar approach for diagrams from Inkscape or any other tool which exports to SVG.