Keynote/Snow Leopard PROBLEMS

[bennifer3000]

After I upgraded to Snow Leopard, when opening powerpoint files (PPT) in Keynote,
the program will load 30% (in the progress bar) then Keynote will be non responsive and I will have to force quit the program.

Never had any problems with Keynote before but I use it quite a bit for presentations so you can see the obvious issues here.

Any help would be appreciated.

-bennifer3000

 

[sonny01]

Snow Leopard and Keynote

Something bad has happened to keynote when running in snow leopard, it runns really slow and keeps quitting unexpectedly anybody got any news on this ?

also can i revert my mac back to leopard from snow leopard as i need keynote to run properly or will it do the whole windows thing and say something about this software can't be upgraded as its older etc etc

 

[Guy Mancuso]

I just opened a pptx file no issue

 

[bennifer3000]

My files are PPT not PPTX.

I've had similar experiences as Sonny01. It's slow and locks up quite a bit.
Even Pages froze when I tried to open a document that I had a saved/created earlier in the day.

 

[djellison]

Did you upgrade or do a clean install?

I did a clean install of SL, followed by a new install of Keynote, and it is fine.

 

[bennifer3000]

Upgrade.

I was thinking about re-installing iLife but I'm not sure I have my serials. They're actually my friends and he let me use his license.

 

[bennifer3000]

I re-installed iLife and voila. Problem solved. Awesome.

 

[pork chops]

I had the same problem with both Pages and Keynote. I couldn't see the images! I tried reinstalling iWork (by the way, not iLife) but still had the same problems. I snooped around the net and found these two updates:

For Pages:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Pages_08_3_0_3

For Keynote:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Keynote_08_4_0_4

I checked my versions of the two apps and and they were a bit behind. Apparently, these updates never made it to Software Update!

After I installed them, everything worked fine. Good luck!