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I found Keynote disappointing in many ways
Authored by: dshoskes on Jan 16, '03 11:04:43AM

So far, keynote's not doing it for me either. I use PP exclusively to make medical talks, usually given at meetings or courses. Typically they insist on a .ppt file for the presentation. Since the windoze machine doesn't have the nifty new apple fonts, the results look crappy. The exported file is huge: a 3 slide sample with only text was a 2.4 MB .ppt file.

Admittedly I only glanced at the manual, but changing font and background color was not intuitive. It looks like I will have to make a whole set of themes on my own and that also doesn't look like a simple proposition. I love the idea of a built in chart generator, but without error bars, I will never use it. Finally, I am surprised they didn't include all the powerpoint slide layouts. I particularly need title + 2 side by side bulleted columns.

I certainly want to make this work and to use the nifty and unique transitions to wow the crowd, but it seems as though I will have to work mostly in pp still and then import.



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