PPT vs TXT
Una comparativa detallada de PowerPoint Presentation (Legacy) y Plain Text — tamaño de archivo, calidad, compatibilidad y cuál elegir según tu flujo de trabajo.
PowerPoint Presentation (Legacy)
PresentationsPPT is the legacy binary format for Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2003 presentations. Many archived presentations and templates still use this format and require conversion for modern editing.
Sobre los archivos PPTPlain Text
Documents & TextTXT files contain unformatted plain text with no styling, images, or layout information. They are universally readable by any device and operating system, making them the simplest document format.
Sobre los archivos TXTComparativa de ventajas
PPT Ventajas
- Universal legacy compatibility since 1987.
- Binary format loads quickly on older hardware.
- Preserves animations, transitions, and embedded media.
- Every modern presentation tool can open it.
TXT Ventajas
- Universally readable — every operating system, every editor, every programming language.
- Zero metadata overhead: the file size equals the character count (for ASCII).
- Safe to diff, grep, version-control, and pipe through command-line tools.
- Immune to format obsolescence: a text file from 1970 still opens today.
- Tiny footprint for structured data like logs or configuration.
Limitaciones
PPT Limitaciones
- Deprecated since 2007 — PPTX is the recommended format.
- Animations and SmartArt often render differently outside PowerPoint 2003.
- Macro-enabled variants are a malware vector.
- Binary corruption often unrecoverable.
TXT Limitaciones
- No styling, images, or embedded structure — just characters.
- Character encoding ambiguity (ISO-8859-1 vs UTF-8 vs Windows-1252) causes "mojibake".
- Line-ending differences between OSes still cause subtle bugs today.
- No way to carry hyperlinks, tables, or formatting without a convention on top (like Markdown).
Especificaciones técnicas
| Especificación | PPT | TXT |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | application/vnd.ms-powerpoint | text/plain |
| Container | OLE Compound File | — |
| Successor | .pptx (2007) | — |
| Default slide size (1997-2003) | 720×540 px (4:3) | — |
| Common encodings | — | UTF-8, UTF-16, ASCII, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252 |
| Line endings | — | LF (Unix), CRLF (Windows), CR (classic Mac) |
| Max file size | — | Limited only by filesystem (no format-level limit) |
| Structure | — | None — flat sequence of characters |
Tamaños típicos de archivo
PPT
- Simple text deck (10 slides) 100-500 KB
- Typical corporate deck with images 2-15 MB
TXT
- Short note < 1 KB
- README file 2–20 KB
- Full novel (~90,000 words) 500 KB – 1 MB
- Server log file (daily) 10 MB – 1 GB
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Preguntas frecuentes
PPT is the legacy Microsoft PowerPoint binary format used from 1987 to 2007. It shipped as part of the OLE Compound File container in PowerPoint 97-2003 and was replaced by PPTX in Office 2007. Legacy PPTs still circulate in academic and corporate archives.
PPT files open in every PowerPoint version since 1997, Google Slides (free), LibreOffice Impress (free), Apple Keynote, and most online viewers. Mobile PowerPoint apps on iOS and Android handle PPT natively.
Open the .ppt in PowerPoint and use Save As → PowerPoint Presentation (.pptx). KaijuConverter offers single-click PPT-to-PPTX conversion. LibreOffice Impress and Google Slides also convert on export. Conversion usually preserves animations and transitions.
Always PPTX for new decks. PPTX files are smaller thanks to ZIP compression, follow the ISO/IEC 29500 standard, and support every modern animation and effect. PPT is frozen since 2007 and missing most features introduced in PowerPoint 2010+.
PowerPoint's proprietary animation engine uses undocumented binary structures that LibreOffice Impress approximates imperfectly. Most basic transitions work; complex motion paths and advanced SmartArt animations often render differently. Use PPTX export for better cross-tool fidelity.
PPT can contain embedded VBA macros that may run malicious code. Modern PowerPoint blocks macros by default. For untrusted sources, open the file in Google Slides first — it strips macros and shows the slide content safely.