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Keynote 1.1.1

After years of using PowerPoint, I thought Keynote was great as it was . . . who knew it could get any better! 🙂
 
I can't tell what is different playing around with Keynote, and the description of the enhancements don't help either.

Can anyone explain?

Thanks.
 
Originally posted by dbally
After years of using PowerPoint, I thought Keynote was great as it was . . . who knew it could get any better! 🙂
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The application itself is great but I could always use more themes. And if they could also add lots of animated elements and animated backgrounds that would be a great improvement too. Oh, and they could add the ability to burn your presentations as VCD's or DVD's.
 
to reply to the previous post, it is not that hard to export into iDVD from keynote, seeing as how you can save as any quicktime format.

on the subject of the update, I am thrilled that these updates are coming along, because Keynote is a damn good program now, and can only get better (and more powerful). long live the Key!😉
 
Automatic slide transition?

Any word as to whether they've finally added timed slide changes - as in, changes slides every 5 seconds?

Or am I just missing something that's there already?
 
31 meg download?

Yikes, this is a big download. Not that I am too concerned with having a cable modem access, but it is still a large download. Oh well, downloading it now.
 
Room for improvement

Originally posted by dbally
After years of using PowerPoint, I thought Keynote was great as it was . . . who knew it could get any better! 🙂
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To a great extent I live on presentations (what one sponsor once called "viewgraph engineering"), and I was very happy to switch to Keynote. But I believe it could get a *lot* better.

(1) Stability -- Keynote has crashed on me several times. Hopefully 1.1.1 will fix some of these issues.

(2) Drawing -- The ability to draw diagrams leaves much to be desired. This is particularly amazing considering the ease and power of Cocoa/Quartz for drawing stuff like bezier curves. Perhaps Apple should consider licensing something like OmniGraffle.

(3) Speed -- The performance can be very slow, especially if you have moderately complex PDF images in a slide. For example, pasting diagrams from OmniGraffle that include the firewall clipart *really* slows down Keynote. I have generated my own PDF from Cocoa, and it also slows down Keynote.

I do enjoy Keynote, but there is room for improvement. Now I am just waiting to replace Word.
 
Yeah, but I still can't figure out how to rotate text in Keynote, which is trivially done in Powerpoint... Also why doesn't Keynote allow you to do dynamic resizing of the presentation i.e. from 800*600 to 1024*768 while maintaining centering etc. Finally when you import presentations from Powerpoint it does not seem to allow you to choose the size into which they are open and if you set a size of 1024*768 then everything if off-center. Great piece of software but still not there yet... 🙁
 
Originally posted by catdog02481
Yeah, but I still can't figure out how to rotate text in Keynote, which is trivially done in Powerpoint...
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Rotate text? As cmd-click on a text item's box to rotate it? This doesn't work on titles, but it works fine on normal text....
 
Originally posted by orb
Rotate text? As cmd-click on a text item's box to rotate it? This doesn't work on titles, but it works fine on normal text....
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Its one of those "hidden" features. 😉

Also, there is Command-Shift-drag handle for rotating object by increments of 45 degrees.

Apple could use a little better documentation.
 
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