Keynote ver. 3: setting individual slide sizes?

Hi, this is the first question I've ever posted in an online discussion group (I can't afford to pull out any more hair).
Brief background: I'm using Keynote to assemble a presentation for an annual architectural design awards program; this is my first time in six years not using PowerPoint, one of many reasons being that I could never manually adjust slide orientation but rather had to go with 100% portrait or landscape. The images that firms submit are always a mixed bag of horizontal and vertical images and it's a pain having to resize half (read: 500) of them -- plus I always get a few complaints that I've compromised the clarity of their professionally-photographed building details. bah!
Is there a trick to accomplishing this in Keynote? I'm using the "slide size" feature in the document inspector, but it's only letting me make across-the-board changes, not slide by slide. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Welcome to the discussion board, weirhaus.
I'm not sure I really understand your question. Keynote can't set sizes for individual slides, but this shouldn't be a problem. All projectors have a "native" orientation of landscape, and a native resolution (800 X 600, 1024 X768, etc.). This is just like your computer monitor. Changing the orientation of the slides in Keynote will not change the resolution or orientation of the projector itself (just as it wouldn't change your monitor's orientation or resolution), and orienting the slides as portrait will only mean that you are cutting off the sides of the display -- it would be exactly equivalent to simply putting the same image onto a black landscape slide of the same height as the "portrait" slide.
As for the "clarity" of the images, the resolution you have to work with is the resolution of the projector -- if you project a 4000 pixel tall image on a projector with a native height of 768 pixels, you will necessarily lose some resolution, and there is very little that can be done.
Can you explain a bit more what you need to do?

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