smaller themes for keynote
I have put two free themes up on the internet, but was very disappointed with the size. They ended up being almost 12M apiece or 7-8M compressed as .sit files.
Since then I have been trying to find a way to make the files smaller. I think I have it.
If you are making backgrounds in photoshop, save the background (by itself in a document with no other layers) as a photoshop PDF file. Instead of 1.4M the background came out to be 200k. Now I know there may be image loss and if you used a higher compression for jpeg the theme may be larger.
This theme, from an old book (hence its' name) was saved as a compressed .sit file to 1.2M. It does not include any graph backgrounds as the default looks fine with a lowered transparency. There are thirteen distinct backgrounds in this theme, because of the number of photoholes included.
<a href="http://members.shaw.ca/nosemonger/oldbook.kth.sit"; target="_blank">http://members.shaw.ca/nosemonger/oldbook.kth.sit</a>;
If you are considering sending themes to people, or making them available for download, this might be the way to go.
[ 01-20-2003: Message edited by: nosey ]</p>
Since then I have been trying to find a way to make the files smaller. I think I have it.
If you are making backgrounds in photoshop, save the background (by itself in a document with no other layers) as a photoshop PDF file. Instead of 1.4M the background came out to be 200k. Now I know there may be image loss and if you used a higher compression for jpeg the theme may be larger.
This theme, from an old book (hence its' name) was saved as a compressed .sit file to 1.2M. It does not include any graph backgrounds as the default looks fine with a lowered transparency. There are thirteen distinct backgrounds in this theme, because of the number of photoholes included.
<a href="http://members.shaw.ca/nosemonger/oldbook.kth.sit"; target="_blank">http://members.shaw.ca/nosemonger/oldbook.kth.sit</a>;
If you are considering sending themes to people, or making them available for download, this might be the way to go.
[ 01-20-2003: Message edited by: nosey ]</p>