IPad/Keynote Self-guided presentation

Setting up a self-guided tour of a non-profit car museum using Keynote on IPads that will be lent to visitors who prefer a self-guided tour instead of a human-guided docent tour. Everything looks promising with a hyperlink-only presentation that is shaping up. (I am disapointed in a couple of missing features in IOS Keynote that are present in Keybote 09 however: ability to add voice-over narration or sound tracks to separate pages, and the ability to do "smart-builds" for multiple image slide shows. The first can be done in Keynote 09 and import to IOS but the second won't even import.)
I have found that a links-only driven presentation in Keynote is similar enough to web browsers that it is intuitive enough even for non-tech-savy users. But one problem has cropped up. People unfamiliar with Ipads or Iphones will push the hard button on the bottom of the screen and exit Keynote to the home screen or they will put the IPad to sleep with the small button on top. In either case they are then completely lost.
Does anyone know of a case for Ipads that covers the mechanical buttons so they can't be accidentally pushed?

I don't have a suggestion, but I do have a question. We are trying to do something similar, but I have found that people pinch the screen and "mess up" the Keynote slides. Are you having that issue? And if not, how did you keep that from happening. Thank you!

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Hey there,
since 4 month I am trying to find a solution to this problem (See title). How is it possible that Apple can´t bring out an update for that? This is in my opinion one of the most important functions especially for companies who are presenting their work on iPads, having 50 slide presentations and need to switch from slide 34 to slide 4 and back. Anyways, it makes no sense having keynote without being able to use hyperlinks on the ipad...
*When is Apple bringing out an update?!* PLEASE APPLE! Is there any other possibility to make interactive presentation work on the ipad, keeping the hyperlinks and all the animations the way you created them on the mac or pc?
Thanks!

These are user to user forums and nobody here can tell you anything about Apple's plans. To ask Apple for new features, best use the channel they have set up for that:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/keynote_ipad.html

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Using this Converter PDF to Keynote" ( http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/freesoftware/pdftokeynote.html ) PDF-Presentations works totaly well inside Macs keynote. Transfering with iTunes to the iPad works well, too. But opening such a presentation in iPads keynote results in "Could not import, unknown error".
Are there any tips or tricks?
A.

Hi,
I didn't understand how you fixed the problem.
Could you please explain step by step how you sorted it?
Thanks

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Is there any way to display, edit, or view (while connected to VGA) presenter notes?

Presenter notes would have been nice.
But why can't I see the slide I'm projecting except in a teensy thumbnail? I present without notes and rely on seeing the slide on my laptop to prompt me. Has nobody at Apple ever DONE a presentation? Or perhaps the iPad Keynote designers are so brilliant that they can remember exactly what "Slide 23 of 30" in their presentation is.
I'm really surprised and disappointed with what I'm reading about Keynote. Being able to carry a smaller presentation device to my classes was a major selling point for me. Until Keynote is more fully-featured, there's no point in getting an iPad.

Problem Saving Self-Contained Presentations

When I save a self-contained presentation, Keynote saves every pict, movie, sound, theme, etc. BUT I can not find the actual presentation (i.e., the file that ends with .key). Am I missing something?

The folder IS the file. If you're saving to your HD, it will be named filename.key and when you double click on it, Keynote will open. If you're saving to an external PC formatted drive or a flash drive, those don't understand the way OSX stores information and will show a folder with files inside of it.
For any .key file you've saved, your can right click or control click on the file and choose "Show Package Contents" and you'll be able to navigate inside the file to see all the parts that make up the presentation. The most important part that brings it all together is the index.xml.gz file. That tells Keynote how to display your presentation using the media included in that "folder".
Now, if you want to email this to another computer, you'll need to right click or control click on the file and choose "Create Archive of..." and then send the resulting .zip file.

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Can you do keynote or PPT presentations via wifi and AppleTV?

Not from your mac/PC, but keynote presentations from an iPad 2 with AirPlay are quite simply brilliant. Not only do you have full control of the keynote in your hands, but besides seeing the slides that everyone else is seeing, right in front of you as you look at your audience, you have your notes too.

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I want to create a self-running presentation with transitions and animations that I can post on a web site, ideally as a Flash file. Is this possible with Keynote? What are my options?

Thanks, Edward.
I did some research on the web and the most recent information I can find is for 2009, showing Quicktime with an installation rate of 65% or so. In my target audience, my guess is the installation rate will be somewhat higher. So I will switch to Keynote, recreate the presentation (or import it, if I can), and export it to Quicktime as an interim solution. At less than 100%, I can be reasonably certain that some people who do not have QT installed will simply leave my site rather than download QT to watch my video.
I'm no programmer so I have no idea how hard it would be, but, as a big-time Apple fan and a long time marketing person, I would say that if Keynote users want to post their presentations (with transitions and animations) on the web, then Apple should support exporting to Flash. (Of course, I would say the same thing to MS about PP, but w/o the "big-time fan" comment.)
Thanks again. You've helped me make progress.

Markup tools for iPad Keynote app?

I saw a youtube clip from an early keynote ipad app where in presentation mode one could swipe up and it would give you a palette of colors to draw with. This might be an interesting alternative to a wacom tablet / mac book pro. I teach college chemistry and it might allow for presenting keynote lecture material and hand written content on one platform. Perhaps the capactiance screen is too low a resolution. Anyone know of this or maybe I am just behind and the ipad app can do that? Thanks, Dean

You could use an app to establish a VNC connection via an app like Screens or iTeleport but to my knowledge, Keynote for iPad does not, in fact, allow you to control your presentation from your device.

Cannot import into iPad keynote

Greetings everyone; I have MS Office 2008 and iWork '09 on my MacBook Pro with the latest iTunes and Mac OS X 10.6.4. For some reason, files will not copy from my iTunes keynote file list onto my iPad. I have seven PowerPoint presentations to load on my iPad, but they just won't go over. I tried saving them as .key files in Keynote on my MBP and importing them to iPad Keynote, but that also doesn't work. I was able to copy over .ppt files and open them in iPad Keynote before, but now nothing works, not even importing .key files. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this, please let me know.

I have the same problem,
and couldn't find a solution

I want to use 2 ipad 2 devices to present in a one-on-one situation. I would hand an ipad 2 to my customer and go through a presentation controlling what he/she sees with my ipad 2. Is that possible?

I want to use 2 ipads 2 devices as presentation tools in a one-on-one siuation. I want to cotrol what my customer sees on his/her ipad2 (that I would hand to him/her) through the ipad 2 that I would be using. Is that possible?

This IS possible. Take a look at Fuze Meeting HD and Mobile Presenter Pro on the App Store. Fuze Meeting HD was featured in an iPad commercial, in fact.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobile-presenter-pro-wireless/id363283163?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fuze-meeting-hd/id389446884?mt=8

Keynote for Windows Presentation

I have just upgraded to Keynote 3.0.1. I would like to create a slideshow in Keynote for a presentation. The church that will show the presentation uses Windows. I tried last year using Keynote 2, and tried upteen different exports to Powerpoint, but had a variety of issues which are too numerous to mention. So....does anyone know if Keynote 3 has a new solution? Right now I use iPhoto slideshow (which has improved to be honest), but I then have to create a QT movie which obviously loses some of the quality of the images.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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the two biggies for me are soft drop shadows, and images that have transparency placed INSIDE (or as a fill) to a ppt auto shape.
I ran into this second one when I exported a theme I'm working on into PPT 2004. All my photo cutouts are actual Keynote shapes, and I created shadow images that actually sit inside a shape, so you get a nice hard edge on the cutout...but when I opened the PPT file, these shapes (which came over as PPT shapes) which should have shown a shadow with transparency around it ended up with solid white backgrounds.
Then I tried to just use a standard PPT shape and add an image into it, and got the same effect. Transparency INSIDE a ppt shape just isn't supported.
You might also want to look at the transitions and effects to see if they've caught up to Keynote at all.

Color picker iPad Keynote?

Is there any way to, or an app to help to, access a Color Picker in the iPad Keynote? Seem to be stuck with the predetermined colours in Themes only?

Your in the wrong forum, this is Keynote for Mac.
You are more likely to get a reply from users of the iPad than us Mac folk, so try here:
Keynote iOS discussion

How can I sync multiple iPads together for a presentation?

I have multiple ipads. I'd like to give a presentation with all the attendees viewing the presentation on each ipad. Each attendee would be given an ipad to view the presentation. The presenter would control the presentation from their iphone or ipad. How can I do this? Is there a way to sync all ipads together. Preferablly over bluetooth. Help please!

If the presenter is using a computer and everyone else has an iPad this is very easy and free. Just use http://join.me and on the iPad just download their free app

Can I open iPad keynote and iPad pages on a PC Microsoft word and a PC Microsoft PowerPoint? also the other way around?

Can I open iPad keynote and iPad pages on a PC Microsoft word and a PC Microsoft PowerPoint? also the other way around?

Yes. You can export iPad Pages and Keynote files as Word and PowerPoint files and you can upload/transfer/email Word and PowerPoint files to the iPad and work on them in Pages and Keynote.
Be advised that there will be some degree of formatting issues and also that the iOS versions of Pges and Keynote do not the full functionality of Word and PowerPoint on a computer.

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IPad/Keynote Self-guided presentation

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