Thursday, November 29, 2007

[applekeynote] Beware of the SFWordProcessing bug

Well I got hit by the 'SFWordProcessing causing Keynote presentations to crash' bug today.

The thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5911318
notes that some text transitions in slides using some fonts (especially Helvetica, and
especially italic and or bold apparently) makes some individual slides crash Keynote.

This appears only to happen with Keynote 4.0.1 in Leopard 10.5.1. It was fine with Keynote
4.0.1 and Tiger.

So if you have some Tiger/Keynote 08 presentations, and are thinking of moving to Leopard,
I'm just flagging this up, so you don't fall into my experience.

(I had to do 2 presentations today - a large one to 70 children this morning - mainly photos -
and it was fine; then a very small presentation to 3 people in the afternoon, which would not
go past slide 5, and Keynote/the Mac just embarrassingly failed...)

Alastair

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