Keynote & OmniGraffle/OmniOutliner

Greg Titus greg at omnigroup.com
Tue Jan 21 09:26:00 PST 2003


On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 08:53  PM, Listera 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?

Hold down option while clicking to start dragging a graphic. Or do it 
from a palette instead of a document.

> "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.

Yes, we need to change this. We should probably always use transparency 
when copying.

> 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.

This is a bug that has been fixed internally and will be in the next 
release.

> 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%.

Odd. We'll have to see if we can reproduce these.

	- Greg




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