Questions tagged [keynote]

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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how to change text item delimiter in Keynote rich text so period and comma are not ignored (using Javascript for Automation)?

In short: with iWork rich text objects, breaking the text up in words goes from: "This... he said, is a sentence!" to: ["This", "he", "said", "is", "a", "sentence"] So: periods, comma and exclamation point have disappeared. Similar to the…
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create duplicate of file (Keynote presentation) using Javascript for Automation

What is the recommended way to create a duplicate of a file and specify the new name? At the moment I use: test = Application("Finder").duplicate(Path("/var/tmp/old.txt"), {replacing:true}) // creates "/var/tmp/old copy.txt" test.name = "new.txt" //…
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Opening a Keynote Presentation using AppleScript (Keynote 6.5.2)

I am trying to see if i can change the text of some slides inside a keynote presentation that has already been created but i am having problems just opening it to begin with. here is my current simple applescript: set thisFile to…
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Applescript to set transition timers

I recently switched from PowerPoint to Keynote. I have ~50 presentations and together they add up to more than 5000 slides. Each slide has embedded audios it can be anywhere from 3 seconds to 30 seconds long. In PowerPoint I wrote a Macro to insert…
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fontAwesome and Apple Keynote 6.5

After upgrading to Yosemite (10.10) and Keynote 6.5, fontAwesome is working while I'm designig my presentation, but it fails when I export to PDF. The icons are smaller and bad positioned in the exported version. Can you understand why?
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Converting keynote presentations to images on the ipad

I'd like to be able to read keynote presentation files on the ipad, and convert them to a series of images, one per slide. Is there an easy way of doing this? I briefly took a look at the internals of a keynote presentation, and the huge xml wad…
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ios Objective-C how to display different video feed on big screen

According to the first comment at the end of this article: http://www.imore.com/keynote-iphone-ipad-review And here: http://help.apple.com/keynote/ipad/2.2/#/tand1a4ee7c It seems that you can configure keynote for iPad, such that you can see speaker…
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Manually rebuild a `.key` Keynote file from components

I've been recovering data from a busted hard drive and was forced to do a terminal cp -R with my Apple Keynote .key files because it viewed them as directories. It broke them into components (including a Data folder with all the images, Index.zip,…
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HTML5 check if the content of a

Since the export to powerpoint and online icloud option for Keynote aren't sufficient for me i wanted to use the export to quicktime option to show my presentation. Now I want to use JavaScript and the HTML5 video tag, to play the video on keydown…
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Access Text Boxes (in a Keynote slide) in AppleScript

Need some help to figure out how to access Text Boxes inside a slide in Keynote with Applescript. I tried to use ASDictionary but I couldn't find anything that would resemble a text box object. I fear that they are not scriptable in Keynote, but…
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AppleScript path being replaced at compile time (New Keynote scripting trouble)

We've got an applescript that tells keynotes to delete slides based on criteria. The new keynote does not have an applescript dictionary, but leaves the old keynote in a subdirectory. So I'm trying to tell AppleScript to talk with the older app…
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Open presentation file in Keynote

Do you have any suggestions how can I open *.key Keynote09 file in Keynote application on iOS devices? I'm able to open presentations in embedded UIWebView control, but now I want to open it in external application as 'open with'. I'll be grateful…
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make applescript close keynote after presentation is over

does anyone know how i would achieve the following? i want to make applescript close Keynote AFTER the slideshow is finished. any idea? mybe via the class "playing" in keynotes application properties? but i dont know hw to write it. my code so…
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How to embed a WebGL output in May Keynote?

I have some output in WebGL format, is there a way for me to embed this in a KeyNote or PowerPoint or LaTeX-Beamer presentation so that I change the orientation and zoom during a presentation.
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Open keynote with URL reference scheme on touch of uibutton

Is this possible? I have tried this code below but I cannot get it to compile: - (IBAction)KeynoteButton:(id)sender { UIDocumentInteractionController *controller = [UIDocumentInteractionController interactionControllerWithURL:[NSURL…
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