Microsoft Office can be used to make charts and diagrams in their office suite. While useful, it’s been traditionally difficult to free them from the clutches of Office. Your creations often end up being converted to images, leading to a drop in quality.

So, what do you do if you want to use your Charts and SmartArt in your EPUB or website? Fortunately, there’s a solution that promotes portability and flexibility in the final design.

Solution?

Inkscape, is an open-source vector image editor that saves images as SVG. An image format that:

• Is supported by 98.9% of all browsers.
• Sees wide application support, including Microsoft Office.
• Supported by EPUB Version 3.