Use Web View in Keynote '08 Smart Builds

Nov 19, '07 07:30:08AM

Contributed by: mercurious

One nice Keynote and Pages feature is the incredibly useful Web View, which allows you to easily drop a website into your presentation, even setting it to auto-update. This can be far more elegant than screen shots.

However, there is no obvious way to integrate Web Views into Keynote '08's Smart Builds, which allow you to quickly create multi-image animations on a slide. A simple cut and paste trick however, does seem to work:

Note that you cannot select the Web View and change its parameters in the Inspector once it's been pasted into the Smart Build. You'll need to go through the cut and paste trick to make changes to it, such as edit the URL or to change the live updating setting.

Perhaps the next version of Keynote will allow a more explicit way of combining and editing Web Views and Smart Builds?

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