ODP to PICON Converter

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Slides to Personal Icons

Turn ODP presentation slides into PICON personal icon thumbnails — miniature visual summaries of each slide, ready for use as avatars or file previews.

Instant Generation

PICON images are extremely small files. Converting an entire ODP presentation to icon-sized thumbnails takes just moments on Convertio servers.

Visual Slide Summaries

Each PICON captures the essential visual composition of an ODP slide at icon scale — providing a quick, recognizable preview of your presentation content.

How to convert ODP to PICON

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Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.

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Choose picon or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)

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Let the file convert and you can download your picon file right afterwards

About formats

ODP (OpenDocument Presentation) is the presentation file format defined by the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard, developed by the OASIS technical committee and first published as ODF 1.0 on May 1, 2005, later adopted as international standard ISO/IEC 26300. An ODP file is a ZIP archive containing XML documents that describe presentation content, styles, metadata, and settings using a vendor-neutral, royalty-free specification. Slides are defined in content.xml using drawing and presentation namespaces, with separate files for styles, manifest, and embedded media. The format supports text frames, images, charts, tables, shapes, gradients, transparency, slide transitions, animations, master pages, and speaker notes. ODP serves as the native format for LibreOffice Impress, Apache OpenOffice Impress, and Calligra Stage, and can be imported by Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, and other commercial tools. One advantage is vendor independence — ODP is governed by an open standard rather than a single company, ensuring long-term accessibility and freedom from proprietary lock-in. This makes ODP particularly valuable for government agencies, educational institutions, and organizations with digital preservation mandates. The fully documented XML structure is another strength, enabling programmatic generation and processing using any programming language with XML support. ODP is mandated or recommended as a document format by numerous national governments worldwide.
Developer: OASIS
Initial release: May 1, 2005
PICON (Personal Icon) is a small-format image type used in the X Window System ecosystem, developed by Steve Kinzler at Indiana University around 1990 as part of the picons (personal icons) database project. Picons are small, typically 48x48 pixel, color images used as visual identifiers for people, organizations, domains, and Usenet newsgroups in Unix mail readers, news readers, and other communication tools. The picon format is essentially an XPM (X PixMap) image stored with specific naming conventions and directory structures that allow software to look up the appropriate icon based on email address, domain name, or newsgroup name. The picons database organized thousands of these small images in a hierarchical directory structure keyed by domain name components (e.g., faces/com/example/user.xpm), enabling mail clients like exmstrstrstr and faces to automatically display a sender's photo or organizational logo alongside their messages. The system predated the modern concept of contact photos and avatars by more than a decade. One advantage is the system's pioneering role in visual identity for electronic communication: picons introduced the idea that email and Usenet messages should display a visual representation of the sender — a concept that eventually became standard in every modern email client, messaging app, and social media platform. The XPM-based format ensures that picons are displayable on any system with X Window libraries. Picon images are supported by ImageMagick, GIMP, and X Window display utilities, and the historical picons database remains archived online at Indiana University.
Developer: Steve Kinzler
Initial release: 1990

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert ODP to PICON?

PICON generates miniature icon-sized representations of your slides — useful as user avatars, file thumbnails, or compact visual identifiers in Unix desktop environments.

What applications use PICON files?

Unix window managers, IRC clients, and certain file browsers use PICON images as personal icons. ImageMagick and XPM-aware editors can also open and edit PICON files.

How small are PICON images?

PICONs are typically 48x48 pixels or smaller — designed to be recognizable at icon size. Slide content is scaled and simplified to fit this miniature format.

Does PICON support color?

Yes — PICON is based on the XPM color format, so it supports a color palette. However, the tiny dimensions mean most detail from ODP slides is reduced to broad shapes and colors.

Is ODP to PICON conversion free?

Convertio provides free ODP to PICON conversion for everyone. Premium accounts offer larger file allowances and priority processing for batch icon generation.