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Using AppleScript to hide Keynote Text Fields in A Slide

I am no AppleScript Jedi, I've only done a few simple things, but I haven't been able to figure this one out and could use some help: My wife uses slides for her Art History courses and would like to use the same slides for exams (sans identifying names). Rather than create a new presentation, I'd like a tool that iterates through the s...

Automator action to create Keynote presentation from text file

Newbie here. Thanks for looking. I need to import a text file (consisting of subtitles) into a Keynote presentation. I need to turn each subtitle into a single slide, interspersed with blank (black) slides. I'd like to create an Automator action in order to do this. I think the way to do this is to filter paragraphs ending in two line ...

How to (programatically) change slides in a running Keynote presentation?

I'm working on a Cocoa application I'd like to use to remotely (on the same machine, from a different process) control which slide is currently displayed in a running Apple iWork '09 Keynote presentation. How should I approach this? ...

Discovering "Stop Points" in an Interactive Quicktime Movie

Keynote lets you export a Quicktime movie that is interactive... it will automatically pause after each transition and you can click anywhere on the movie (if you're running in quicktime) to make it continue to the next slide. Does anyone know where I could learn more about this type of quicktime file? Can the QTKit library (or any oth...

Creating Powerpoint/Keynote Presentations with scriptability?

Lately I have been creating PowerPoint presentations to companies. I have mostly been doing this in PowerPoint. Basically they are created by the same design, but just different numbers in set places, and different numbers used to generate the PowerPoint bar graph / pie graph stuff. (basically there are these pie graph objects when inser...

Access Text Boxes (in a Keynote slide) in AppleScript

Need some help to figure out how to access Text Boxes inside a slide in Keynote with Applescript. I tried to use ASDictionary but I couldn't find anything that would resemble a text box object. I fear that they are not scriptable in Keynote, but perhaps I can access them through Applescript Cocoa bridge? Any thoughts? Thanks! ...

Converting keynote presentations to images on the ipad

I'd like to be able to read keynote presentation files on the ipad, and convert them to a series of images, one per slide. Is there an easy way of doing this? I briefly took a look at the internals of a keynote presentation, and the huge xml wad looks pretty daunting. Is there a library that can do this? ...

Is it possible to embed dynamic text into Keynote'09?

I wonder if it is possible to embed dynamic text into Keynote'09? I want to create a new presentation and run this presentation with different text messages (depending on the time of the day and day of the month). ...

Split interactive Keynote .mov (Quicktime) to one .mp4 file per slide

Hallo everyone, i wonder if someone knows a solution to my problem. I have a Keynote presentation with a lot of animations. I converted/exported this keynote presentation to a interactive .mov (Quicktime) movie. It means that you can use Quicktime to play this converted presentation movie and advance in the slides by pressing any key or...

Is it possible to embed a Keynote Presentation inside an iPad app?

We have a client who wants to build an app that essentially functions as a media kit that they distribute to clients. In addition to several videos, they would like to embed their Keynote presentation inside of the app. The presentation would also contain some videos on certain slides. Is there some sort of viewer that would allow me ...