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Agree -- it's very good
Authored by: swilcox on Jan 11, '03 02:43:47AM

I received my copy of Keynote today too ($79 from Apple Education Store). I agree with this review. I'm very pleased with my initial testing; Powerpoint is dead for me. Keynote produces gorgeous looking shows. The transitions (especially the cube) are stunning. I can see that it will be easy to create my own master slides. The integration of alpha channels for making frames around photos or movies is just downright slick. I use lots of QuickTime movies in my shows, and I wish there was a way to specify that a movie will not play until I click it (movies play when the slide comes up, or when they appear on the slide). I imported some graphics from OmniGraffle (saved as PDF) and they look great and resize great in Keynote.



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Agree -- it's very good
Authored by: kb5ql on Jan 11, '03 02:51:32AM

Played with the application at the Expo. The exports to PowerPoint work as advertised. It's hilarious seeing the beautiful Keynote presentations back in powerpoint (as in the quality difference). It even converts the transitions well. This is the one thing it has to do well, otherwise, what's the point. Well done for a 1.0.

Now we just need to do testing on the whole export with the various versions of PowerPoint for Windows. Ensuring that the presentations work well on 97 and up is important.



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Agree -- it's very good
Authored by: torture4 on Jan 11, '03 06:20:29AM

I'd REALLY like to know how Keynote exports to PowerPoint.

I'll bet a lot of the features like alpha transparency, fonts, transitions, rotations, etc. get lost when brought back into PPT... I agree that Keynote's probably going to become a great presentation tool for the Mac, but there are times when you're doing to have to send over an presentation to some poor Windoze user, who only has PPT.

What's the verdict?



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Agree -- it's very good
Authored by: tomem on Jan 11, '03 08:27:53AM

How about sending them a PDF or a QT if you have movies. Good enough for seeing content.

The one benefit of having Claris as an independent software shop was that we often got Wintel versions of things. If that starts happening again, I suppose the XonIntel rumors will really take off.



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Agree -- it's very good
Authored by: fabrizio on Jan 11, '03 03:11:01PM

Swilcox, if you want your movie won't play until you click, use the "Build" inspector and set a "Build in" style for the movie.



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Agree -- it's very good
Authored by: swilcox on Jan 11, '03 05:45:52PM

Thanks Fabrizio!



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