![]() To accomplish this, you have to very carefully select all the areas of the picture that you want to make transparent when you place the image into iWork, then delete those areas to a transparent background. You might want to use a photographic "cut-out" similar to a transparent GIF on a Web page. Not all the art you will want to use is in a vector format. You will have to save a selection to create a transparency mask (Alpha Channel) as detailed below. Transparency will also be maintained in this situation.įinally, you can open an EPS, Illustrator or vector PICT image with Photoshop CS or Photoshop Elements and rasterize the image on a transparent background at an appropriate size and resolution, depending on the end use of the document (screen viewing or print). Then, Copy/Paste into the iWork (Pages or Keynote 2) document where you want to use the image. This will select all the paths and fills in the image. To convert a vector PICT graphic, like the clip art that comes with AppleWorks, open the image in the Draw module (NOT the Paint or any other module) of AppleWorks, then choose "Ungroup Picture" from the Arrange menu. Save it as a PDF and it can then be inserted in an iWork doc. You can open an EPS graphic in the Preview application, provided that it has the ".eps" file extension. Unfortunately, these images can't be directly placed into iWork, as they can into any professional application (eg, PageMaker, Quark XPress, InDesign, etc.) I have found three ways to convert vector images for use in iWork - each involves using other programs. The best quality clip art that you have is likely vector-based EPS or PICT images. You might like to put a clip-art image into the main window, over top of the template page's nice background pattern, without bringing along a big ugly background rectangle. Perhaps your artistic muse wants you to work outside the box, though. It's almost ridiculously easy to slip your own images from iPhoto or elsewhere into the tidy pre-formatted frame boxes. This isn't a problem if you confine yourself to the "picture frame" pages in the provided templates for the two applications of the suite, Pages and Keynote 2.0. ![]() One aspect of the replacement has yet to appear - clip art.Īpple has provided no clip art with iWork, not even the limited amount that came with Keynote 1.x. The new iWork suite from Apple is apparently the basis for replacing AppleWorks.
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