If you inset a 20KB SVG logo into PowerPoint and size it up to full screen, PowerPoint will create a companion PNG that is much, much larger than 20KB just in case someone with a legacy build of PowerPoint opens up your file. But if you’re thinking about using SVGs to help control file size, be aware of this gotcha: In order to maintain backwards compatibility with versions of PowerPoint that do not support SVGs, PowerPoint will automatically create and save a PNG of your SVG upon import, and will do so at an appropriate size for how you have sized the SVG.

Additionally, SVGs can be recolored within PowerPoint and even converted to PowerPoint shapes for editing or further control.įor all these reasons, we generally now use the SVG format for logos and icons inserted into PowerPoint. A logo or illustration in SVG format-which is a vector format-will be crisp and perfect at any resolution or zoom level and will generally be much smaller in file size than a JPEG or PNG. The ability to import SVGs into PowerPoint was a huge and long-awaited improvement to the software.

Svg file size reducer