Keynote developed by Apple Inc. is slide presentation software for the the Apple line of products, include Mac desktop machines and iPads. Part of the iWork suite of software, which includes Numbers (a spreadsheet application) and Pages (for documents), Keynote is now in version 6, released October 2013. According to Wikipedia, Keynote gained exposure when Al Gore used it for presentations in "In inconvenient Truth".
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Decoding KeyNote IWA protobuf data with Python
Good afternoon,
I am looking for a bit of insight into working with KeyNote files (~2017 ver 8.x).
My objective is fairly basic. I just want to extract the text and images from about 3000 KeyNote files. I am working in Python 2.7 due to the age of…

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rspec access new type as variable
By https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/directory-structure, we can define a new type. Currently, I am using keynote(MVP for rails), so there is a new type: presenter if I define
RSpec.configure do |config|
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How to select all text items on a slide using applescript?
I want to select only the text items on a slide using apple script.
tell application "Keynote"
activate
tell front document
tell slide 1
select (every text item)
end tell
-- save
end tell
end…

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AddText in pptxgenjs flexible width issue
I am trying to achieve a result like this
But the width of text automatically takes way more space than expected.
The text behavior is like div but I want it to behave like span
How to achieve something like this in pptxgenjs.

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How to create or edit Keynote master slides using JavaScript for automation?
I'm trying to automate the creation and inspection of master slides in Keynote using JavaScript for automation.
Creating master slides
It's easy to create a new document with a given theme and add slides with particular master slides to it.
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Exporting keynote to quicktime movie with options
I am trying to write a script to automate export from keynote:
tell application "Keynote"
export document 1 to file "Macintosh HD:Users:shambho:test.m4v"
end tell
This script works fine, but the output generated is of very low resolution. I want…

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Applescript or widget to create an overlay timer on a Keynote presentation
Following the idea of this thread:
Display Cocoa window above Keynote presentation
(which I don't if the author found a solution),
I'd like to know if it's possible to add an overlay timer or logo on a keynote presentation in fullscreen mode, with…

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Replace fonts in Keynote with JXA
I'm trying to find/replace problematic fonts in Keynote, and found this script to change fonts using JXA, but need to scan every character and text object for the offending font.
I've tried this to start, but the conditional isn't working.…

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Current time display in Keynote vie Applescript
tell application "Keynote"
repeat
delay 2 -- seconds. This script does not need to run faster
set the_time to current date
set the_time to time string of (current date) -- get now()
set…

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How can I get a reference to the currently selected text in keynote into a variable in applescript
I would really like to drop MS Office and switch to the Apple apps but I have some applescripts for powerpoint that I need to replace. I need to do things like change the font or the opacity of the currently SELECTED text. I can't figure out how to…

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Keynote: change Shape Styles via AppleScript or JXA
This is for either AppleScript or JXA:
I'd like to automate a task in Keynote, which involves Keynote's Shape Styles: if any existing shape has a certain RGB-value, I'd like to assign a specific Shape Style to it.
So first question would be: is…

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How to make presentation with java or swift code with highlighting in Keynote?
I have a swift-code and java-code, I want show code with highlighting in my keynote presentation? How do I do this?

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applescript (automator) how can I access properties of the selected image in keynote?
tell application "Keynote"
activate
tell the front document
tell the current slide
set ImageItem to **image 1**
end tell
end tell
end tell
When I use such a script, I can access images by their index.…
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Is it possible to open and flip through a Keynote in my own IOS app?
So I had a amazing idea for a app that involves Keynotes/Powerpoints. I figured there would almost certainly be 100s of threads on how to do this natively in a app or at the very least a few solid libraries built to do this on Github, but so far…

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Applescript w/Keynote. Creating build orders/Transitions for text items
I see documentation for creating transitions between slides but can you create from scratch build orders w/transitions?
I have a keynote presentation that's already been created and a template with a build order of 2 items but I want to be able to…

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