Hi, I'm a fairly frequent user of Office 2008, but most of my documents are text heavy not image heavy
But at the moment I'm trying to write a complex graphic heavy document. I'm trying to write it in parallel in Word and as a Powerpoint slide pack.
The workflow is typically
1. export a photo from iPhoto ->
2. drop it into Omnigraffle
3. select part of a vector drawing in Preview ->
4. drop it into Omnigraffle ->
5. in Omnigraffle overlay the two and draw lines and arrows over the top ->
6. Select the final assembly in Omnigraffle and press cmd-C ->
7. Paste into Word, and/or paste into Powerpoint using either cmd-V or Paste Special.
The problem is the final step. I don't understand the rules about how Word and Powerpoint paste PDF vector+bitmap images out of Omnigraffle.
The rules are something like...
- paste from Omnigraffle into Word using Cmd-V -> automatically paste as PDF with good quality
- paste from Omnigraffle into PPT using Cmd-V -> automatically paste as bitmap
- paste from Omnigraffle into PPT using Paste Special, PDF -> paste as PDF but with crappy quality
- paste from Omnigraffle into Word using cmd-V, then copy-paste from Word into PPT -> paste as Microsoft OLE object or similar, with good quality
when I select an image in PPT I get a different frame around it depending upon the workflow I use - either blue blobs at the corners, or a picture frame look. Bitmaps and PDFs have blobs, OLEs have picture frames?????
To get a good PDF quality I seem to have to go Omni > Word as PDF then Word > PPT as OLE, otherwise the final slideshow looks quite pixelly, even though I've avoided using bitmaps throughout.
Another similar problem comes when I open an vector drawing in Preview, use the select tool to highlight part of it, then press Cmd-C. If I press cmd-V in Word or Omnigraffle it drops in as a nice vector PDF. If I cmd-V in PPT I get a blank image rectangle. So I have to do the same 3 stage process Preview -> Word -> PPT
Can anyone explain this to me, it's driving me crazy??????? Is there an easy single step Omnigraffle -> PPT which preserves image quality?
But at the moment I'm trying to write a complex graphic heavy document. I'm trying to write it in parallel in Word and as a Powerpoint slide pack.
The workflow is typically
1. export a photo from iPhoto ->
2. drop it into Omnigraffle
3. select part of a vector drawing in Preview ->
4. drop it into Omnigraffle ->
5. in Omnigraffle overlay the two and draw lines and arrows over the top ->
6. Select the final assembly in Omnigraffle and press cmd-C ->
7. Paste into Word, and/or paste into Powerpoint using either cmd-V or Paste Special.
The problem is the final step. I don't understand the rules about how Word and Powerpoint paste PDF vector+bitmap images out of Omnigraffle.
The rules are something like...
- paste from Omnigraffle into Word using Cmd-V -> automatically paste as PDF with good quality
- paste from Omnigraffle into PPT using Cmd-V -> automatically paste as bitmap
- paste from Omnigraffle into PPT using Paste Special, PDF -> paste as PDF but with crappy quality
- paste from Omnigraffle into Word using cmd-V, then copy-paste from Word into PPT -> paste as Microsoft OLE object or similar, with good quality
when I select an image in PPT I get a different frame around it depending upon the workflow I use - either blue blobs at the corners, or a picture frame look. Bitmaps and PDFs have blobs, OLEs have picture frames?????
To get a good PDF quality I seem to have to go Omni > Word as PDF then Word > PPT as OLE, otherwise the final slideshow looks quite pixelly, even though I've avoided using bitmaps throughout.
Another similar problem comes when I open an vector drawing in Preview, use the select tool to highlight part of it, then press Cmd-C. If I press cmd-V in Word or Omnigraffle it drops in as a nice vector PDF. If I cmd-V in PPT I get a blank image rectangle. So I have to do the same 3 stage process Preview -> Word -> PPT
Can anyone explain this to me, it's driving me crazy??????? Is there an easy single step Omnigraffle -> PPT which preserves image quality?