Keynote & OmniGraffle/OmniOutliner

Listera listera at rcn.com
Sun Jan 19 20:54:00 PST 2003


"Larry Gorbet" wrote:

> After trying various export tactics, he discovered he could just drag
> an OmniGraffle graphic into Keynote and get excellent results.

Interesting. How do you drag out graphics from OG?

"Bryan Zarnett" wrote:

> Copy-Paste from OG to Keynote is nice,

There are some funkiness when you do that.

A)  You need to remember to check transparency in the Export Prefs,
otherwise grouped or multi-selected graphics will have a solid background
when pasted into Keynote.

B) The problem where OG anti-aliases the left and bottom sides of, say, a
solid square bitmap pasted into OG, remains (predictably) a problem when
pasted into Keynote as well.

C) A much stranger problem is this: I have about half dozen bitmaps plus
some OG lines on three layers, all visible. If I do a select all, copy and
paste in Keynote, a bitmap in the middle gets noticeably fuzzier than the
original in OG. Just that one. If I simply select that graphic and paste it
by itself, no problems.

E) But if I then scale down what was pasted from OG within Keynote, both the
unwanted anti-alising and the image fuzziness are gone, as can be seen when
zoomed in at 200%.

F) Multiple, ungrouped items pasted into Keynote from OG, remain a single
unit...bummer.

G) If you copy text from OG and paste into Keynote it comes a graphic and is
thus uneditable. But you can put a nice shadow on it in Keynote and the
shadow goes not around the bounding box (as a graphic would) but around all
the letters (as editable text would :-).

I'll play some more when I get a moment.

Best,

Ziya




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