Google Drive does export sub-folders, but only when they have content.
Simply find the folder you want to export in the left-hand sidebar, click the down arrow next to it, and select Download:
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ztmXL.png)
There is a 2GB limit, so if the sum of filesizes in your folder tree exceeds that, you may run into trouble.
If that is a problem, another solution is to set up synchronization with your computer. Then you'll have a copy of the entire Google Drive on your hard drive, and you are free to create a zip file from any folder you'd like, from your computer.
See Overview of Google Drive for help installing the Google Drive client on your computer.
The emoji characters render differently on different platforms: see the comparison chart. This depends more on the operating system than the browser. Here is a comparison of Pizza slice character:
Mac:
Windows 7:
Chrome OS: ![Chrome/Chrome OD](https://i.stack.imgur.com/r63QN.png)
(All from Chrome browser). And this is the character itself, rendered by the browser you are using currently.
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This variety is hardly acceptable for online-based presentation, which are often delivered from a computer other than the one on which the presentation was prepared. At present, Google deals with this by using an SVG font (apparently, their own), for example this is their rendering of pizza slice:
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The result:
![Presentation mode](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1M51S.png)
This makes the Slides platform-independent, but at the cost of not having colorful (possibly proprietary) icons.
As Rubén suggested, inserting images works; you can copy-paste an image into a presentation, taking it, e.g., from fileformat pages.
Best Answer
In case you still have this issue or for others and for future reference, there is a way to do this through the later versions of Microsoft Power Point.
Strokes
, as well asmake Compound
.Paths
of the shapes like circles and rounded squares etc.Import
your svg in a Power Point presentation through the standardInsert Image
option.Convert to Shape
.Save
the Power Point and proceed to your Google Slides document.File > Import Slides
, upload you PP presentation, select the slide with the image.