Re: [applekeynote] Endpoint,orientation and size of action builds

I have sent Apple feedback that I want size: width and height (in pixels, not %), position: x and y for both start and end positions so they can be duplicated on the following or prior slide to seemlessly string movement throughout a series of slides. What they gave us is tinker toy stuff. Without the above it's trial and error and a huge pain in the butt for some of the things I try to do. Plus, even if an object has plenty of resolution (it's sized down on the slide), if you scale it up it makes a copy of the object at displayed resolution and then enlarges that and it gets blurry. Even text. That is not a very good way to enlarge things, it's downright un-Apple.

Everyone should copy and paste the above (or do your own version, and fire it off to Keynote feedback.

John

On 3-Nov-08, at 7:54 PM, Martin Land wrote:

Hi:
Q: How does one quickly and reliably visualize the end position of a 
compound action build sequence, so you can copy the "end product" of 
the compound build so it is accurately sized and positioned on the 
next slide? (For instance, after using a combination of scale and 
motion, or a combination of rotate and motion). I recall some early 
discussion about this problem, but would appreciate your 
suggestions. This can become time consuming when you need to do a 
slow dissolve to a subsequent slide on which you want to carry some 
(but not all) of the objects that you took through such action builds 
on the prior slide. Obviously, you can keep adding builds to the 
initial slide, but I have some instances in which that is not very 
practical.
Example:
On slide one, let's "break" a "plank", supported on two "saw 
horses", by loading it in the middle: bring an arrow in from the top 
(weight implied) , and then, the plank develops an irregular "crack" 
immediately below the arrow. Next, the two pieces of the 
"plank" (which were layered behind the intact original which wiped 
out vertically to make the crack "appear"), "fall down" by using a 
combination of rotate (as so cleverly suggested by John a few weeks 
ago) and motion. Now, we have two "bits of plank" in their rotated 
and translated "fallen" positions. Now, how to dissolve into slide 
two, and make sure that the two pieces are "picked up" exactly from 
their respective end positions on slide #1?
This gets more challenging when we scale an object to a different 
size (i.e., although it would not fit this example, if we were to 
scale one of the bits of plank to 150%).
Athel made some comments about this a while back, and perhaps the 
solution was in some of his comments - if so I apologize - 
nevertheless, I would appreciate it if we could revisit this challenge.
Thanks as always for any ideas!
Martin

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