Apple Keynote 3 - Manual (Page 61)

Chapter 3 Working With Text, Graphics, and Other Media 61
Using PDF Files as Graphics
If you intend to greatly enlarge or reduce a graphic’s dimensions, consider converting
it to a PDF file before bringing it into Keynote. PDF files don’t lose their crispness
when they are significantly resized. Other file types may not retain their clarity as well
when they are enlarged or reduced.
PDF files also provide a great way to move tabular data from Excel or AppleWorks
documents into Keynote. If you have extensively formatted tables in these
applications that you want to display in your slideshow, you can save the spreadsheet
as a PDF file and then place that PDF file on a slide as you would any other external
graphics file.
To convert an AppleWorks or Excel file to a PDF file:
1 Open the Excel or AppleWorks document you want to convert.
2 Choose File > Print.
3 Click PDF, and then choose “Save as PDF” from the pop-up menu.
4 In the Save dialog, type a name for the PDF file, choose a location, and then click Save.
You can include other kinds of objects, such as movies, charts, tables, hypertext links,
and webpages. To learn more, see “Adding a Movie” on page 71 and “Adding
Webpages and Hyperlinks” on page 73, as well as Chapter 5, “Creating Tables,” and
Chapter 6, “Creating Charts.”
Note: You can copy a range of cells in an Excel document and paste the cells and their
contents directly on a slide. Keynote creates a new table to hold the Excel data. Or, use
the Grab utility (Finder > Services > Grab) to create a TIFF image of a selection in an
Excel or AppleWorks document.