low-quality copy (to the clipboard) in Keynote and Pages

No! I didn't know that! However, on my affected computer, all it shows is the PNG graphic! Getting a full look at the pasteboard would show all the various formats (from the highest resolution PDF all the way down to PNG (if the program being pasted into does not support any of the other formats), but this HAS been informational.

This could mean that it might be worth it to look into FINDER defaults instead of Keynote. I'm going to see if the screenshot default has any effect. That's an excellent bit of sleuthing you did, there. I feel like we're closer than we've ever been to nailing down the errant difference that causes the issue.

It's an old page, but I'm going to check to see if these do anything, positive or negative 🙂

http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/16/change-the-screenshot-capture-file-format/

It only worked for the screen capture. If you copy from Keynote and do Finder>Edit>Show Clipboard, you still get a PNG.

Just to capture this info here for intrepid searchers, the "defaults write" list o' things to default write is found here:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWork.Keynote

Unfortunately, nothing looks remotely like "fix the fact that my images are low quality" 🙂

Thanks, this was helpful!

I've been watching this issue for a long while and I just noticed I can now copy PDF Vector image data from Keynote if I select the entire slide in the navigator and then copy, and then I can paste the image as a PDF Vector in Preview or another app, e.g in powerpoint I can "Paste as PDF".

Note that selecting objects on a slide still copy as low quality image data.

Keynote 6.6.1

OSX Yosemite 10.10.5

Hope this helps!

Right click the graphic in keynote or pages and choose 'copy as pdf'

Paste it in illustrator, indesign... as vector

Seems that only works for graphics, not shapes

Right click the graphic in keynote or pages and choose 'copy as pdf'

There is no such feature in Keynote as: copy as pdf

Seems that only works for graphics, not shapes

This discussion is about vector shapes, it is not about images.

I had the same issue using Keynote 6.6.2 on a Macbook OS El Capitan 10.11.6.

I found I could solve the problem if I exported my Keynote as a MS Office PowerPoint for Mac Version 15.24, then transferred from the Power Point to MS Word Version 15.24.

My images (these are detailed images of original diagrams and animation characters I created using my own shapes that I created with Keynote features) transferred with full resolution even at full screen.

I've had this same problem for a while, and I've found a pretty good solution. If you are in navigator view, and click on the slide's icon on the left menu bar, and then copy *that*, it'll export the vector information to other apps. then you can paste it into preview and select whatever sub-region you want to use