How can I export an Excel/OpenOffice/LibreOffice chart to SVG?

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David B picture David B · Sep 20, 2011 · Viewed 8.8k times · Source

I'm using one of the popular spreadsheet applications (Excel/OpenOffice/LibreOffice Graph) to create some nice charts.

Is it possible to export the charts to SVG format from any of those programs?

Answer

Nickmancol picture Nickmancol · Sep 2, 2012

You can use Libreoffice/Openoffice + Inkscape:

  1. Create your chart on Calc
  2. Copy the chart into Draw
  3. Export Draw file to svg (File->Export)
  4. Open the svg on Inskcape
  5. Right click on the chart and select Ungroup

This way you can edit every single object on the graph like an svg.

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