Apple: January 2009

Friday, January 30, 2009

[applekeynote] Re: Large graphics files

I tried substituting smaller versions of the files but the
presentation still pauses when I try to bring up the text build that's
just before the graphics (what are in fact in a smart build). I can
hear the disc working to read the files. When it's done, the text
build comes up followed by the smart build with the graphics which
then runs with no pauses. The smart build has 36 images so I tried to
divid it into 3 smaller builds with 11 images each but that seemed to
make things worse. The only solution I've hit on is to bring up the
slide prior to the actual presentation and give it a chance to load
the graphics. Then when I start the presentation from the start with
the audience present, the slide in question runs with no pausing.
Thanks for all of your suggestions by the way.
David

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Re: [applekeynote] Re: Large graphics files

I have had great interest in file sizes over the years, as we have visited the image size topic from time to time. Brian and Les are right on the money. You do not need 300 dpi, but then - should you wish to shrink files - you need to maintain multiple file sizes of the original image creating a filing issue in iPhoto, or whatever you use. By contrast, projector incompatibilities have probably caused me more grief over the years than anything else.

A few years ago I pretty much quit shrinking jpeg files, or size the originals to 1024 x 768 at 300 dpi, ensuring availability of a decent quality original image (Exception: huge Tiffs > 5-10 MB).

I routinely present 250 - 350 MB (or larger) files from a 2003 old G4 w 1 Gig, and from a two year old MacBook Intel w 1 Gig, and have seen slide transition delays delays perhaps once in a five year period of intensive presenting. The exception seems to be the use of some of the new smart builds: I DO see delays when using something such as the "spinning caroussel thing" loaded with ten or twelve larger images, This implies that there is a limit to the number of MB's on a single slide - in part likely controlled by processor speed, available RAM etc. Until I started using some of these smart builds occasionally, I was under the impression that Keynote could handle almost anything on a single slide because I understood that it only retains two slides in memory: the one on the screen, and the next slide. Yet, when embedding a videoclip (some can be huge) there is no appreciable delay - so that has to trigger a hyperlink, rather than load the entire file as part of the slide transition. When Keynote has to reconfigure/resize any image (esp. video), you will lose some resolution.

On Jan 30, 2009, at 6:24 AM, Tim Thoelecke Jr. wrote:

Agreed. My presentations are nearly all photos. I've had pretty good luck letting KN do it, but you have more control if you do it outside KN. Also, if the images are TIF files, they are still pretty big when imported and can bloat the presentation.

One other thing to note is that you are at the mercy of the projector most of the time. I have my own, but most of the time I'm using whatever is provided. Sometimes they look horrible.

Good luck.
On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:03 PM, davidr_222 wrote:

A number of the files are in the 1 to 2 megabyte range. I want to fill
about half the screen with each image. I would imagine that lower
resolution images would produce less striking images on the screen.
Have people had experience with this one way or the other?

--- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, Juan M <juanm@...> wrote:
>
> how large is large?
>
>
> and why not reduce the resolution?
>
> This is not print media you don't need 300dpi at 1920 x 1080 for a
> great quality presentation.
>
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:48 PM, davidr_222 wrote:
>
> > I'm working on a presentation will have quite a few large images.
> > This causes pauses during the presentation while the images load. Is
> > there a way to pre-load the images at the start of the presentation or
> > any other solution other than creating smaller lower resolution files?
> >
> >
> >
>

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Re: [applekeynote] Re: Large graphics files

Agreed. My presentations are nearly all photos. I've had pretty good luck letting KN do it, but you have more control if you do it outside KN. Also, if the images are TIF files, they are still pretty big when imported and can bloat the presentation.

One other thing to note is that you are at the mercy of the projector most of the time. I have my own, but most of the time I'm using whatever is provided. Sometimes they look horrible.

Good luck.

On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:03 PM, davidr_222 wrote:

A number of the files are in the 1 to 2 megabyte range. I want to fill
about half the screen with each image. I would imagine that lower
resolution images would produce less striking images on the screen.
Have people had experience with this one way or the other?

--- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, Juan M <juanm@...> wrote:
>
> how large is large?
>
>
> and why not reduce the resolution?
>
> This is not print media you don't need 300dpi at 1920 x 1080 for a
> great quality presentation.
>
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:48 PM, davidr_222 wrote:
>
> > I'm working on a presentation will have quite a few large images.
> > This causes pauses during the presentation while the images load. Is
> > there a way to pre-load the images at the start of the presentation or
> > any other solution other than creating smaller lower resolution files?
> >
> >
> >
>

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Re: [applekeynote] Re: Large graphics files

Your best bet is to play with the resolutions and see if you can detect any loss of quality when used with a data projector.

I doubt that a serious reduction in resolution resulting in much smaller files will be noticeable.

Les

On 30/01/2009, at 2:03 PM, davidr_222 wrote:

A number of the files are in the 1 to 2 megabyte range. I want to fill
about half the screen with each image. I would imagine that lower
resolution images would produce less striking images on the screen.
Have people had experience with this one way or the other?

--- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, Juan M <juanm@...> wrote:
>
> how large is large?
>
>
> and why not reduce the resolution?
>
> This is not print media you don't need 300dpi at 1920 x 1080 for a
> great quality presentation.
>
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:48 PM, davidr_222 wrote:
>
> > I'm working on a presentation will have quite a few large images.
> > This causes pauses during the presentation while the images load. Is
> > there a way to pre-load the images at the start of the presentation or
> > any other solution other than creating smaller lower resolution files?
> >
> >
> >
>

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Re: [applekeynote] Re: Large graphics files

your slide is a set resolution (same res as your projector) anything
MORE than the set amount of pixels of your slide is useless. as Juan
said, this is NOT print. there's not even dpi. There's just pixels. if
your preso is 1024x768 and you're filling half a slide, that's not a
lot of pixels. Set your image to 72 dpi (just a good rule of thumb,
and Keynote plays nice with that number) and then just forget it and
go by sheer pixels in your image. Width and height in pixels is all
you need to deal with. I'd even go as far as saying, scaling it in
Photoshop to the final slide size will likely look better than letting
Keynote do it.

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On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:03 PM, davidr_222 wrote:

> A number of the files are in the 1 to 2 megabyte range. I want to fill
> about half the screen with each image. I would imagine that lower
> resolution images would produce less striking images on the screen.
> Have people had experience with this one way or the other?
>
> --- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, Juan M <juanm@...> wrote:
> >
> > how large is large?
> >
> >
> > and why not reduce the resolution?
> >
> > This is not print media you don't need 300dpi at 1920 x 1080 for a
> > great quality presentation.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:48 PM, davidr_222 wrote:
> >
> > > I'm working on a presentation will have quite a few large images.
> > > This causes pauses during the presentation while the images
> load. Is
> > > there a way to pre-load the images at the start of the
> presentation or
> > > any other solution other than creating smaller lower resolution
> files?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>

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[applekeynote] Re: Large graphics files

A number of the files are in the 1 to 2 megabyte range. I want to fill
about half the screen with each image. I would imagine that lower
resolution images would produce less striking images on the screen.
Have people had experience with this one way or the other?

--- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, Juan M <juanm@...> wrote:
>
> how large is large?
>
>
> and why not reduce the resolution?
>
> This is not print media you don't need 300dpi at 1920 x 1080 for a
> great quality presentation.
>
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:48 PM, davidr_222 wrote:
>
> > I'm working on a presentation will have quite a few large images.
> > This causes pauses during the presentation while the images load. Is
> > there a way to pre-load the images at the start of the presentation or
> > any other solution other than creating smaller lower resolution files?
> >
> >
> >
>

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Re: [applekeynote] Large graphics files

how large is large?

and why not reduce the resolution?

This is not print media you don't need 300dpi at 1920 x 1080 for a great quality presentation.

On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:48 PM, davidr_222 wrote:

I'm working on a presentation will have quite a few large images.
This causes pauses during the presentation while the images load. Is
there a way to pre-load the images at the start of the presentation or
any other solution other than creating smaller lower resolution files?

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[applekeynote] Large graphics files

I'm working on a presentation will have quite a few large images.
This causes pauses during the presentation while the images load. Is
there a way to pre-load the images at the start of the presentation or
any other solution other than creating smaller lower resolution files?

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Re: [applekeynote] PP Export

Good suggestions, but no go. Also uninstalled and reinstalled MS Office to no avail.

On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Gary Coyne wrote:

In my mind, when something like this happens I can only assume that something snarky has happened to my computer. Just as a coincidence, an office mate of mine came to me an hour ago with the problem that he couldn't save a document from Word: he was getting a message that there was no room on the HD to place the file (112 GB wasn't enough space??)

We downloaded Leopard Cache Cleaner (from versiontracker.com) and ran it in demo mode. We went over to the last tab and did a Medium cleaning of all three caches (Local, System, and Users). Then after restarting, we checked off all of the top four generic repairs in the Maintain (first) tab (Permissions, Maintenance, Prebindings, and Log Archives). After these were complete, we had to restart his computer again.

After the restart, his problem was solved.

In short, we often neglect general maintenance of our computers until they force us to. Whether this will solve your problem or not I cannot guarantee. However, it's a good place to start.

There are other generic maintenance repair programs for the Mac, Onyx is free, Leopard Cache Cleaner is about $9 and can do other things. Either way it's your call. I first used LCC when I was REALLY REALLY up a wall, ran it in demo mode and purchased a license because it saved my butt.

Good luck and let us know how it works out.

Gary

On 1/27/09 1:41 PM, "Tim Thoelecke Jr." <garden1@ameritech.net> wrote:

I'm having a problem I've never had before.

As a backup, I always export my presentations in PP on a flash drive
in case I have a technical problem and need to borrow a windows
machine. I'm trying to do this for a talk on Friday and for some
reason PP won't open the file. It tries for several minutes then
fails, telling me there is something wrong with the file. I'm using KN
'08 on a MBP 2.4 GHz w/ 2 GB RAM. I also have MS Office 2008.

I have tried it with a couple of different presentations and same
problem. I have had no problem doing this in the past. Any idea what
to try next?

I do not have a Windows version of Office to test in on.

Thanks.

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Re: [applekeynote] PP Export

I'd like to test it for myself as I got some warnings during export and will need to reformat some pages. Also, because I use a lot of images, the file is 200MB, so too big to email.

I'll have to sort this out later. Have a backup in QT and as PDF, so in a pinch should be okay.

On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Ameet Chimote wrote:

I have the same problem... the PP version does not open on my macbook pro... however, if I E-mail the PP file to a PC or to someone who uses a PC, they can open it without any problems

Ameet

On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Tim Thoelecke Jr. wrote:

I'm having a problem I've never had before.

As a backup, I always export my presentations in PP on a flash drive
in case I have a technical problem and need to borrow a windows
machine. I'm trying to do this for a talk on Friday and for some
reason PP won't open the file. It tries for several minutes then
fails, telling me there is something wrong with the file. I'm using KN
'08 on a MBP 2.4 GHz w/ 2 GB RAM. I also have MS Office 2008.

I have tried it with a couple of different presentations and same
problem. I have had no problem doing this in the past. Any idea what
to try next?

I do not have a Windows version of Office to test in on.

Thanks.

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Re: [applekeynote] Re: 3D text rendering

On 29/01/2009, at 2:59 AM, L J Frabotta wrote:

Les,

I may have missed a posting on this, but how did your BOF go?

Are you making your presentation available as with last year?

Laurence

-Laurence,

Ken Drake on his blog did a nice write up of the BoF at Macworld.

As I've been unofficially invited to return to Macworld in '10, I will endeavour to get another one going with a little more heads up time.

There was no videoing of my two day session, but I intend to put up on my blog some highlights of what I did, especially as it relates to new features of KN 5.

I pulled a very late nighter on that first day, as I had obtained KN 5 and was playing with it and iwork.com to see what I could include in day 2 without losing the flow.

It wasn't helped by a dying logic board on my Macbook Pro causing sudden shutdowns when under load. It finally died yesterday, and my local supplier, ConnectingPoint, replaced in overnight. This is now the third logic board residing in the 'book. I'm informed that one more incident will see a new Macbook Pro replace the current one.

My blog post will be about my macworld experience, upshifting from a 75" pres. in 2008, to two full days in 2009. And I'll include some material I used. I tried not to use 2008 material, but when I discovered only 3 of 75 had attended or knew of it, I did some quick shifts to include some of the older material, which of course was seen as fresh by the group attending.

best

Les

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[applekeynote] Re: 3D text rendering

Les,

I may have missed a posting on this, but how did your BOF go?

Are you making your presentation available as with last year?

Laurence

--- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, Iinet <lesposen@...> wrote:
>
> In my macworld powertools workshop I demonstrated belights art text 2.
> Do check it out.
>
> Les

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Re: [applekeynote] PP Export

I have the same problem... the PP version does not open on my macbook pro... however, if I E-mail the PP file to a PC or to someone who uses a PC, they can open it without any problems

Ameet

On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Tim Thoelecke Jr. wrote:

I'm having a problem I've never had before.

As a backup, I always export my presentations in PP on a flash drive
in case I have a technical problem and need to borrow a windows
machine. I'm trying to do this for a talk on Friday and for some
reason PP won't open the file. It tries for several minutes then
fails, telling me there is something wrong with the file. I'm using KN
'08 on a MBP 2.4 GHz w/ 2 GB RAM. I also have MS Office 2008.

I have tried it with a couple of different presentations and same
problem. I have had no problem doing this in the past. Any idea what
to try next?

I do not have a Windows version of Office to test in on.

Thanks.

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Re: [applekeynote] PP Export

In my mind, when something like this happens I can only assume that something snarky has happened to my computer. Just as a coincidence, an office mate of mine came to me an hour ago with the problem that he couldn’t save a document from Word: he was getting a message that there was no room on the HD to place the file (112 GB wasn’t enough space??)

We downloaded Leopard Cache Cleaner (from versiontracker.com) and ran it in demo mode. We went over to the last tab and did a Medium cleaning of all three caches (Local, System, and Users). Then after restarting, we checked off all of the top four generic repairs in the Maintain (first) tab (Permissions, Maintenance, Prebindings, and Log Archives). After these were complete, we had to restart his computer again.

After the restart, his problem was solved.

In short, we often neglect general maintenance of our computers until they force us to. Whether this will solve your problem or not I cannot guarantee. However, it’s a good place to start.

There are other generic maintenance repair programs for the Mac, Onyx is free, Leopard Cache Cleaner is about $9 and can do other things. Either way it’s your call. I first used LCC when I was REALLY REALLY up a wall, ran it in demo mode and purchased a license because it saved my butt.

Good luck and let us know how it works out.

Gary

On 1/27/09 1:41 PM, "Tim Thoelecke Jr." <garden1@ameritech.net> wrote:

I'm having a problem I've never had before.

As a backup, I always export my presentations in PP on a flash drive
in case I have a technical problem and need to borrow a windows
machine. I'm trying to do this for a talk on Friday and for some
reason PP won't open the file. It tries for several minutes then
fails, telling me there is something wrong with the file. I'm using KN
'08 on a MBP 2.4 GHz w/ 2 GB RAM. I also have MS Office 2008.

I have tried it with a couple of different presentations and same
problem. I have had no problem doing this in the past. Any idea what
to try next?

I do not have a Windows version of Office to test in on.

Thanks.

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[applekeynote] PP Export

I'm having a problem I've never had before.

As a backup, I always export my presentations in PP on a flash drive
in case I have a technical problem and need to borrow a windows
machine. I'm trying to do this for a talk on Friday and for some
reason PP won't open the file. It tries for several minutes then
fails, telling me there is something wrong with the file. I'm using KN
'08 on a MBP 2.4 GHz w/ 2 GB RAM. I also have MS Office 2008.

I have tried it with a couple of different presentations and same
problem. I have had no problem doing this in the past. Any idea what
to try next?

I do not have a Windows version of Office to test in on.

Thanks.

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Re: [applekeynote] 3D text rendering

In my macworld powertools workshop I demonstrated belights art text 2. Do check it out.

Les

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On 27/01/2009, at 9:02 AM, Macaholic <dropzone@rogers.com> wrote:

Hi folks.

This may have been asked before... but I suppose there is no way to
render 3D text in Keynote? There are "thick" 3D-ish fonts out there...
but not quite the same thing. Do you need something like Motion to
pull that off??

Thanks in advance.

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Re: [applekeynote] 3D text rendering

You should look at Art Text 2 or Text-Osterone (I didn't come up with that name). They are a lot less expensive than Motion.

David

On Jan 26, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Macaholic wrote:

Hi folks.

This may have been asked before... but I suppose there is no way to
render 3D text in Keynote? There are "thick" 3D-ish fonts out there...
but not quite the same thing. Do you need something like Motion to
pull that off??

Thanks in advance.

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[applekeynote] 3D text rendering

Hi folks.

This may have been asked before... but I suppose there is no way to
render 3D text in Keynote? There are "thick" 3D-ish fonts out there...
but not quite the same thing. Do you need something like Motion to
pull that off??

Thanks in advance.

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[applekeynote] Update embedded webpage

Does anyone know if, and how, Keynote might be able to update a
webpage that has been embedded on a slide DURING a presentation?

I'm aware that '06 will only grab it when you start the presentation,
but I was wondering if any of the newer versions can do it mid-play?

I use Keynote for a weekly trivia quiz and we keep score using Google
Docs ( we run it in multiple cities simultaneously). I'd love to be
able to have a slide periodically in the presentation/quiz that shows
the scores as we progress. Google Docs provides an easy 'publish as
webpage' option, but I need Keynote to get a fresh version of that
page during the presentation/quiz. Is my only option really to stop
the presentation and restart it?

If there is another way of doing this, I'm open to that as well...

Thanks in Advance,

Trevor
www.allstarpopculture.com

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

[applekeynote] Video hangs when I place in in Keynote 08 and 09

I've got a video clip which plays fine in Quicktime, outside of Keynote. When I place it in
Keynote (both 08 and 09), it has a problem a couple of seconds from the end of the clip: it
hangs on a frame, but the audio plays fine, then the video skips to where it should be, then
hangs again. I've tried it with several different clips.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks.

~ Chris Scott

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Re: [applekeynote] Slow transitions

Thanks! I will keep you posted.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Robert Smelser <crysnrob@mac.com> wrote:

I don't know...

If you have the resources to test that out, let us know how it works. I remember my older machine having issues even with an exported QT file, but it was a G3. Perhaps this would work for you.

Robert Smelser

On Jan 23, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Poki wrote:

Am I correct to assume that if I take my file and export it to QuickTime using a newer Mac, my transition problem should be taken care of then?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Robert Smelser <crysnrob@mac.com> wrote:

I would say that the slow transitions are in fact related to your processor and the older graphics card in your iMac. I would strongly suggest laying off 3D effects until you can get a newer machine.

On Jan 23, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Poki wrote:

I just finished a long presentation in Keynote '08.
It's 20 slides and 70 meg
Lots of graphics and a fair amount of animations including flip and rotate.
I am working on an older iMac with 800MHz PowerPC G4 and 768 MB SDRAM.
I am running OS X version 10.4.11
I use Keynote version 4.0.3

Everything works well except that the transitions are very slow.
After exporting the presentation into QuickTime (CD-Rom-movie Medium), the transitions are even slower.

I need to make a QuickTime movie out of this presentation .

Could my problem stem from too slow of a processor and not enough memory?

Any suggestions besides trimming the lard in iMovie?

Thanks a million!

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Re: [applekeynote] Slow transitions

I don't know...

If you have the resources to test that out, let us know how it works. I remember my older machine having issues even with an exported QT file, but it was a G3. Perhaps this would work for you.

Robert Smelser

On Jan 23, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Poki wrote:

Am I correct to assume that if I take my file and export it to QuickTime using a newer Mac, my transition problem should be taken care of then?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Robert Smelser <crysnrob@mac.com> wrote:
I would say that the slow transitions are in fact related to your processor and the older graphics card in your iMac. I would strongly suggest laying off 3D effects until you can get a newer machine.

On Jan 23, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Poki wrote:

I just finished a long presentation in Keynote '08.
It's 20 slides and 70 meg
Lots of graphics and a fair amount of animations including flip and rotate.
I am working on an older iMac with 800MHz PowerPC G4 and 768 MB SDRAM.
I am running OS X version 10.4.11
I use Keynote version 4.0.3

Everything works well except that the transitions are very slow.
After exporting the presentation into QuickTime (CD-Rom-movie Medium), the transitions are even slower.

I need to make a QuickTime movie out of this presentation .

Could my problem stem from too slow of a processor and not enough memory?

Any suggestions besides trimming the lard in iMovie?

Thanks a million!

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Re: [applekeynote] hot keys?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:27 PM, molinellic <coreym@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a fast way to switch views? Will an automator action help here?
>
Not Automator, but the Keyboard & Mouse control panel. Open System
prefs, and find it.

Next, click on the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab across the top of that pref pane.

Next, click on the little plus sign below the big list.

Next, Choose "Other" from the Application popup menu, and find
Keynote. It probably won't show up on the list, unless you've removed
it from it's iWork folder. Once chosen, type tne name of the menu item
into the "Menu Title" box. eg. "Navigator" or "Light Table"

Next, choose a keyboard shortcut. I'm partial to using the "Ctrl" key
(Control key) due to the fact that it's not commonly used alone on the
Mac, and it helps me keep my personal keyboard shortcuts separate and
memorable.

Repeat the process for every item you want to quickly access.... Why
not all of them? ;-)

I hope this helps. Oh, you will probably need to quit and relaunch
Keynote for the new keyboard shortcuts to take effect. I just did some
in Safari, and had to quit it for them to "take."

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Friday, January 23, 2009

RE: [applekeynote] Scaling

You should be able to break the slide into two slides with scale, magic move, as the transition between them. You wouldn't need to create an animation for the scaled object. The magic move would scale the object for you.

I hope that clears the mud a little. :)

-Todd

From: Martin Land <landmf@mac.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:57 PM
To: applekeynote@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [applekeynote] Scaling

Not sure I understand - the problem I encountered is that as you scale up, the image becomes fuzzy - You scale up WITHIN A SLIDE - so how would Magic Move solve the fuzziness issue?

On Jan 23, 2009, at 8:15 PM, S. Todd McKee wrote:

In Keynote '09, I believe you could use the new 'Magic Move' to create the effect and still maintain the image quality. It will tween the object for you.

-Todd

Todd McKee, MEd
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Arkansas Geriatric Education Center (AGEC)

From: Martin Land <landmf@mac.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 7:01 PM
To: applekeynote@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [applekeynote] Scaling

What has worked for me - as a work around - is to go back to the original file (the one I am scaling up), and then at the end of the scaling action build, have an automatic transition to a new slide with a larger version of the scaled-up image. ÊI know it isn't perfectly clean, but it was the best thing I could come up with. If you have something else building in at the time of the transition, you can use that to distract the observer, and by the time their eye gets back to your enlarged image, it is in sharp focus. A disadvantage is that it takes a bit of work to precisely position the (second) image - that should be easier w K 09, haven't tried it in K 09 yet.
Martin

On Jan 23, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Brian Peat wrote:

it's a "bug" that Apple hasn't fixed, it's nothing you can fixÊ
yourself either. I think someone suggested using Magic Move instead toÊ
resize the object from one slide to the next That works great andÊ
doesn't lose quality.

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On Jan 23, 2009, at 1:57 PM, alsivan wrote:

> Hi! I am trying to scale an image to 150%, but the scaled imageÊ
> turns out blurry, even when I use a good quality picture. Any ideas
> how to keep the quality of the enlarged image?
>
> Ivan

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Friday, January 30, 2009

[applekeynote] Re: Large graphics files

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Re: [applekeynote] PP Export

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Re: [applekeynote] Re: 3D text rendering

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

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Re: [applekeynote] PP Export

[applekeynote] PP Export

Monday, January 26, 2009

Re: [applekeynote] 3D text rendering

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[applekeynote] 3D text rendering

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

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