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Copy high quality images from OmniGraffle to TextEdit
Authored by: JimF on May 21, '04 01:39:10PM

Great hint - works well. But, if you're going to convert a presentation into PowerPoint at some point, the Graffle graphics don't convert well (in general, PDF graphics in Keynote don't convert well when they're rasterized into PowerPoint).

To get around this, I usually export each OmniGraffle page/graphic as a high-res TIFF or PNG (I use 288 dpi). Then I "place" that into the Keynote presentation. It looks just as good as Keynote when saving the presentation in PPT format.



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Copy high quality images from OmniGraffle to TextEdit
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on May 21, '04 03:31:09PM

That would actually be ppi (pixels per inch) and not dpi (dots per inch), which is the way it would be printed using half tone screening. I'm aware this is the common terminology though.

Also 300 ppi is a much better resolution to use, especially if you are going to print something, since it divides well to 150 line screen (dpi) evenly.



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Copy high quality images from OmniGraffle to TextEdit
Authored by: NeutronMonk on May 22, '04 08:51:00AM

This is a handy tip. It also works with Illustrator. Methinks that the reason it doesn't work with Word is because of how Word works with PDFs (uh, poorly, at least with the v.X version). I would note, however, that one must drag the Preview title bar icon onto an already open TextEdit document for this to work- if you drag it onto the TextEdit icon in the Dock and have a new document open, you just get a text document of "gibberish".



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