Custom Theme crashes Keynote

Hello,
I'm creating a new theme. It's very simple. I start with the "White" theme, delete all the master slides except the blank one, then modify the background to be a color gradient. Then I go to File > Save Theme and give it a name.
If I now open a keynote document, choose a slide and select my new theme as the theme for that slide, I get the message "An unexpected error has occurred. Please Quit and reopen Keynote." Does anyone know what the problem might be?

I am getting the same message when I try to increase the font size in a text box on a Keynote slide. It happened several times and then all the images in my keynote 09 slides disappeared. At that point I purchased a new copy of Keynote from the Apple store and that solved the problem till now- the process is beginning again..... can anyone help?

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Message was edited by: Moscool - typos!

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I'm having just the most difficult time working with Keynote (2.0.2) and custom themes. I've create a new master slides but all kinds of problems just keep creeping in. First the bullets that I created on the master would (sometimes) be hidden on the actual slides. Then I could just expand the body content on the actual slides and the bullets would come back. If I edit things a little more then would go away.
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http://www.moss-pultz.com/random/keynote_master.png
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Custom theme does not show up in theme chooser

Hi all,
I'm just trying to create a custom theme based on a presentation template I created. When I do this on my private iMac 2009 with Keynote 5.1.1 this works without any troubles and the theme shows up when selecting "New from Theme".
If I do this on my brandnew MBP (very late 2011) it won't show the theme in the theme chooser.
I looked it up, the theme file is located in the right folder.
Another strange thing that happened to me is that if I save the presentation as a theme on the desktop and open the file from there, Keynote opens a new file but with 800x600 pixels instead if the original 1920x1080 pixels and completely messes up the dimensions etc.
I did reboot, nothing changed.
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P.S.: I transferred my complete Mac from a 2009 MBP with all content and apps.

brandnew MBP (very late 2011) it won't show the theme in the theme chooser.
I looked it up, the theme file is located in the right folder.
Another strange thing that happened to me is that if I save the presentation as a theme on the desktop and open the file from there, Keynote opens a new file but with 800x600 pixels instead if the original 1920x1080 pixels and completely messes up the dimensions
This is happening to me too. So, what can we do about this? I am trying to make a custom theme for a high profile business client and this stuation is making me look bad.

NW2004s: Assigning a custom theme to a web dynpro running in the portal

The situation is as follows:
Some web-dynpros (for java) have a custom theme, a theme which is not the default theme of the portal or the default theme for web-dynpros in general.
In NW2004 this worked as follows:
When starting a web-dynpro in the portal it checked if it was started with the right theme. If not the exit plug of the WD interface view was called with an Url of the WD application plus a parameter for the right theme.
This is the famous parameter sap-cssurl.
For that parameter there are some values possible:
1) sap-cssurl=http://<host>:<port>/irj/portalapps/com.sap.portal.design.urdesigndata/themes/portal/mytheme
2) sap-cssurl=http://<host>:<port>/irj/portalapps/com.sap.portal.design.portaldesigndata/themes/portal/mytheme
3) sap-cssurl=http://<portal>:<host>/webdynpro/resources/sap.com/tcwddispwda/global/SSR/themes/mytheme
The first 2 are locations of the portal environment, the last one is a location of the WD runtime environment.
As I noticed this must be a full qualified absolute Url including host and port.
This works in NW2004 for web dynpro's running standalone AND in the portal.
Now for NW2004s:
The 3 variants of the parameter sap-cssurl work for web dynpro's running standalone.
But now for web dynpro's which are integrated in the portal:
The exit-plug with an Url is not possible anymore, this leads to the runtime error:
com.sap.tc.webdynpro.services.exceptions.WDRuntimeException: Exit-Plug must no be triggered with an URL when running in portal. Use portal navigation instead to navigate to another application!
Okay, as a first workaround I tried the portal navigation,
but somehow the supplied parameter sap-cssurl has no effect.
The code for that in the on-startup plug of the WD component:
WDPortalNavigation.navigateAbsolute(
PCD_ID,
WDPortalNavigationMode.SHOW_INPLACE,
null,
null,
WDPortalNavigationHistoryMode.NO_HISTORY,
null,
null,
"theme_set=X&" + theme,
 theme,
 false,
 true
I used there absolute portal navigation and the parameter (sap-cssurl=...) is part of the launcher parameter and the business parameter in the call to WDPortalNavigation.navigateAbsolute.
But as I wrote above, this has no effect on the theme.
In the I-View the parameter "Supply portal theme" is set to NO, otherwise the parameter "sap-cssurl" is supplied twice (this can be seen in the poroperties of the web-page in Internet Explorer).
What I tried afterwards was setting the parameter sap-cssurl hardcoded in the "Application parameters" of the I-View. This doesn't work either.
My question is: Should this be anyway possible for a NW2004s portal?
Did anyone successfully implement this?
Kind regards,
 Erich Lind

Hi Erich,
I am facing the same problem. I am on 04 s and couldnot implement the custom theme to a web dynpro running in the portal. When I run the web dynpro app as stand alone, the custom theme applies fine. But when in portal, it takes the standard theme.
Was wondering if you figured this out.
Thanks

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