Hmm, to save the Photoshop community the trouble of rounding up a
posse, I'll qualify that last post. After googling on the subject, it
seems that printing business cards from an image file out of Keynote
won't give you results as sharp as layered images from CorelDraw,
Illustrator, Photoshop etc. 600 dpi seems a good idea if image files
are going to be used for printing cards (or where text and images are
combined). So ... if you want the sharpest results, go with one of
the pro tools and don't use Keynote. Then again, that will apply in
most cases - Keynote won't be as good as Photoshop etc in terms of
absolute power. But it is good enough for many common tasks (e.g. web
graphics).
Glenn.
On 22/11/2007, at 5:24 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:
Peter,
I haven't used it for business cards, but see no reason why it
couldn't be used that way. And in terms of artwork for printing,
definitely. You can work with 300dpi graphics, and export them at full
resolution as TIFF or JPG files, so you wouldn't be losing out on
image quality. Really would depend on what your printer expected in
terms of the the artwork - so for business cards you could just ask
them and see.
Yes Keynote exports to PDF (with a fancy border) as well as images. Or
you can always just do a File, Print, Save as PDF (which works for any
application on Mac).
By the way, I've upgraded 4 of our Macs to Leopard now and not
encountered any problems with applications (and we use quite a few -
not Photoshop though:) Maybe the posts you are seeing only reflect
the problems, where upgrades are smooth you won't see a post to the
group.
Glenn.
On 22/11/2007, at 5:42 PM, Peter Bull wrote:
Thanks for that info Glenn. I am thinking of upgrading my trusty e-Mac
to a new iMac, but I have been scared of all the stories on WAMUG
lately about how software won't work with it. I use Photoshop
occasionally but just for fun and I can't justify shelling out $2-3000
when most of what I want to do is crop pics or create some snappy
buttons or graphics for a web site. Can Keynote be used to produce
artwork for printing? For instance, business cards, and does it
produce pdf files.
Regards,
Peter Bull
21 Silvereye Close
East CanningtonWA 6107
Phone (08) 9356 7231
Mobile 0427 474 013
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