Keynote widget - animation limitations?

I am trying to create a fairly complex animation in Keynote for use in iBooks Author, where objects have actions (a lot of Move, some Rotate, among others). I know that there are some things that don't import...but not sure what, and I can't find this specific limitation anywhere.
I am finding that when I import my Keynote into the iBooks Author, not all the elements of my animation come with it. Specifically, it turns my Move on a Curve animation into a straight animation. Does anyone know if this is a hard and fast limitation of iBooks Author widgets? I'm trying to animate a hurricane icon, specificially, and hurricanes do NOT run in a straight line!! So it'd make my animation pretty lame, to have my rotating moving hurricane approach the coastline in a straight line, instead of like a real path of a hurricane...
Any way to fix this? Or am I totally screwed and just have to live with straight Move animations on my objects?

I'd already read that, but I couldn't tell if what I was doing was on that list or not. Specifically:
Builds:
Appear or Disappear
Cube
Dissolve
Drop
Move In or Move Out
Pivot
Scale
Twirl
Nothing on that list says, Action -> Move, or Action -> Rotate, but Rotate and Move are working in my imported Keynote file...just not the Curve part of the Move action I created.
The way I figure it, I'll have to do a bunch of smaller, straight moves and that'll work OK...not great, but OK. But I wish there was a WAY more comprehensive list of what works and what doesn't, that page does NOT list everything that works, it appears to me.

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OBJECTIVE: I am trying to imbed an interactive Keynote Widget into an iBook with short audio clips that play after transitions between slides. The Keynote presentation consists of 8 slides that generally consist of an image, a couple of buttons (shapes with associated links to specific slides), a text box or two, and some have inserted audio .m4a files (less than 5 seconds in length). The audio objects are set to 'start after transition'. The overall presentation is set as a 'Links only' presentation type.
PROBLEM: After testing succesfully in Keynote, I saved the presentation, dragged it into iBooks author, and previewed it in iBooks (running on OSX 10.9.2 Mavericks). The widget works splendidly... except the sound. Audio objects aren't activated by transitions. No sound at all out of the Keynote Widget.
WHAT I'VE TRIED: I have checked that sound is working right on my Mac. In fact, Audio widgets on the next page of the same iBook work fine. I changed the audio files in the keynote presentation with a different one that was already working in my iBook as an audio widget. I have tried putting the keynote presentation into a untouched standard Apple template. No sound at all from the Keynote Widget. I also looked for solutions in online help files, Apple's Developer Forums for iBooks Author, and here in this section of the Apple Support Communities. I only found two similar questions/problems neither with a posted resolution (https://discussions.apple.com/message/22443281#22443281 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/22444086#22444086).
TECH SPECS:
iBooks version 1.0.1
iBooks Author version 2.1.1
Keynote version 6.1
OSX version 10.9.2
Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? Or is it an inherent limitation in the program? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

That being the case, Apple has stated that recorded narration will not work in the keynote widget (see iBooks Author: About the Keynote widget - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5067).
Self-Playing and Recorded presentations
Self-Playing presentations and Recorded presentations with voiceover narration may not work as expected. Readers will be able to view and manually advance your presentation, but recorded narration and timings won’t be available.
The same article seems to indicate that some audio files should work in the widget, evidently as sound objects.
Keynote files can contain media—such as images, movies, and audio—but don’t use a Keynote file just to add media to your book.
I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to work yet though. If we can figure out how to get sound objects to work you could still put the audio in your widget, just break it up into a seperate sound file for each slide, and advance to next slide on click. Someone would have to figure out how to get the sound objects to play like they should though...
With regard to the other audio files: That is weird that Apple told you to use .m4p format for audio. Their online documentation says to use m4a. The following is an excerpt from iBooks Author: supported file formats - http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2838.
Video and audio files: M4V, M4ANote: For the Media widget, you can add a video file or an audio file (in a format QuickTime supports) to your book. You can convert other types of files using iMovie, QuickTime Player, or Compressor. For the HTML widget, the suggested file formats are MP4 video files and M4A audio files.
Either the tech who emailed you saying to use .m4p is mixed up, or their online documentation is wrong.
Please let us know if changing to m4p works for you. That may help others out.

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I want to use the scale animation on a character in a keynote presentation.
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But when I play it in the ibook there is a strange bug:
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thx!!

There is no formal BR method for this like what devs use, so yes, that feedback link is what is most commonly used, I think.
Good luck.
Ken

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Using Keynote 9 (version 5.1.1) and OS X Lion (10.7.2) and experiencing problems with Keynote Widget for iBooks Author.
The drag-and-drop feature works fine; I see the first slide - but the arrow button appears to be grayed out. Can't advance through any of my (pretty basic) transitions.
I don't have an iPad, so I can't see if the iBooks file works on that device, but I figured that the Keynote Widget should show some functionality in iBooks Author since both an Interactive Image Widget and QuickTime movie I added elsewhere appears to work. [That image clicks just fine in iBooks Author.]
Also, when I click "Show transport controls" in the inspector, I see arrows and 1/7 (number of slides) - but clicking still doesn't seem to work.
Do I need to be using an iPad to see this particular functionality? Or is this some sort of silly user-error? (Or both?)
Any hints are much appreciated.

Thanks for your prompt reply.
Here is the support page I found to be less than "clear":
iBooks Author: About the Keynote widget (note the first bullet-point: "Adding a presentation to a Keynote widget"): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5067
I subsequently found the other support doc that is more clear - affirming the correctness of your answer.
Even so, I encourage you to reconsider the use of the word "clearly," which comes across as needlessly condescending.

Critical Keynote widget bug on iBooks Author 2.2

Hello,
I think I found a bug on ibooks Author 2.2. If a Keynote widget is added to a .iba document created on IBA 2.2, it cannot be previewed in iBooks 3.2 for iOS 7 or iBooks 1.0.1 for OSX Mavericks. The widget only works when viewed on iOS 8 or OSX Yosemite.
Check the attached screenshot.
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I think this should be fixed ASAP because there are still thousands of users reading ibooks on iPads with iOS 7 or earlier installed.

Confirmed. This isn't the only time we've had issues with the keynote widget. Because of this and a number of other issues and glitches with ibooks / ibooks author we've stopped recommending it to our clients as a platform for professional use. A pity as it showed great promise at first. The support is non existent (of course) and the software may or may not work depending on so many factors that it seems more like a hobby software project than something published by a professional outfit.

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Hyperlinks and magic move should work but don't. However I found the following as a workaround for me. Use three slides instead of two to generate the magic move effect in Keynote presentations on Ibooks using hyperlinks only. As an example
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Dear All,
I am working on an iBook with many Keynote widgets. The keynotes are already made and connected to my iBook, but when i publish it to my iPad3 everything is unsharp. I played around with many resolutions and sizes but nothing helps. So i did a test with only text that has been typed in keynote. But also if i use only text, everything is blurry. How can i fix this problem?
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Here are 2 screens. The sharp screen is just a normal iBook page. The screen unsharp screen, is teh same content only now in keynote and used as a widget and opened in fullscreen mode. It's a preview book that I email to myself and than choose to open with iBooks on my iPad.

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Hi there! I can´t previsualize in my iPad a keynote widget, made for a book in iBooks Author... it simply doesn´t appear... does anybody know if I´m missing a step?? I drag the file in a keynote and also in HTML formats and it just doesn´t work. Thank you!

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Does keynote widget work in portrait

I can insert a keynote into an existing chapter (page) or section when in landscape mode but can't get it to when I am in protrait mode - I just get a beep. Am I doing something wrong? One time - not sure how I did it, but I got it to insert in protrait mode but it went below that blue line that makes things invisible and it didnt show up in my proof.
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Now I am making a book about helping people learning Chinese Pinyin (the Chinese phonics).
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The problem is it works perfectly on keynote, but some sounds just lost every time when I preview on iPad!!
The OS x is 10.8.4, the ibooks author is 2.0, the keynote is 5.3, and I am using the latest iMac and iPad 3.
And the audio file is .m4a. It seems everything is just fine, I feel very frustrated!! Is there something I missed,?
PS, I downloaded a free ibook, which called Korean Phonics, they used the same way to make this exercise, it works very well!! There must be a solution!!
Please let me know if you know how to solve this problem!!!
Thanks a lot!!!

I can not try it on a Mac right now but I will do it tomorrow.
I put an other keyboard (usb-logitech) and it works perfect.
What I also tried to say is that I didn't do anything wrong on my brand new keyboard ( This iMac is a Month old ).
I also wanted to know if there was known problems linked to wireless keyboards...
Thanks a lot.

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Among a few vexing issues I have yet to resolve is this one:
I have embedded over a dozen photo-gallery keynote widgets, all as thumbnails. I have eliminated the headers and captions on all of them, but I cannot eliminate the header/caption box around the thumb picture, nor can I make that box exactly fit the thumbnail image. I need to wrap text about the thumbnail images, but the wrap goes instead around the too-large header/caption box and this causes some bad appearance problems. I can deselect the wrap on that box and select wrap for just the thumbnail image, but then it doesn't wrap at all, despite the fact "wrap" is checked in the inspector. The text just falls behind the image.
Can I eliminate that troublesome box? Or is there some way to at least deselect the box and put a wrap that works directly on the thumbnail image?

Luc, I cannot really give you any examples on Amazon, as the only books I was looking for were iBA books. No matter how good, how creative, a print book would have been of no help to me.
I suppose if there is an example on Amazon of how I like to work photos and words together it would be my own work, so I will give you a link to my book, Gift of the Whale. Yet, if Gift of the Whale had been done by someone else and I had set out to do the book I have been working on and had found it, it would have been of no help to me. Not even an iPad app photo book, some of which are amazing, would be of help because they are not made with iBA tools.
After I get a couple of additional iBA books under my belt, I plan to redo Gift of the Whale as an iBook. And when I do, even with the experience of few a iBooks behind me and a clear vision of where I want to go, I will launch another search of iBA books to see if I can get additional ideas about how to use iBA in a creative. My initial experience at asking people for any recommendations was so negative, the response so insulting and condescending, I will be hesitant to ask again, but I probably will.
I think my first book is a little crude and rough, but that's how you learn. Not by mastering first and then making, but by actual making and mastering as you go along. I could work on it another year, easy, but it has a Christmas theme and I want to get it out there now.
As to whether or not I was pushing in an unfriendly fashion, I don't really think so. It is very true that you can examples of where I came on feeling very irritated at a problem I had encounter in iBA, but never unfriendly toward someone who made an honest effort to help, rather than to lecture. I would say that at least 25 percent, maybe more, of the time and effort I have put toward this first iBA book has been put toward trying to solve the many problems of iBA. As I solve them, I see the logic behind some of the processes but there are a lot of problems that strike me as having unnecessarily been built into the system and the only way out is to come up with workarounds.
Luc, I cannot really give you any examples on Amazon, as the only books I was looking for where iBA books. No matter how good, how creative, a print book would have been of no help to me.
I suppose if there is an example on Amazon of how I like to work photos and words together it would be my own work, so I will give you a link to my book, Gift of the Whale. Yet, if Gift of the Whale had been done by someone else and I had set out to do the book I have been working on and had found this, it would have been of no help to me. Not even an iPad app photo book, some of which are amazing, would be of help because they are not made with iBA tools.
After I get a couple of additional iBA books under my belt, I plan to redo Gift of the Whale as an iBook. And when I do, even with the experience of few a iBooks behind me and a clear vision of where I want to go, I will launch another search of iBA books, because I may learn from what someone else has done. My initial experience at asking people for any recommendations was so negative, the response so insulting and condescending, I will be hesitant to ask again, but I probably will.
As to whether or not I was pushing in an unfriendly fashion, I don't really think so. It is very true that you can find examples of where I came on feeling very irritated at a problem I had encounter in iBA, but I have never been unfriendly toward someone who made an honest effort to help, rather than to lecture and insult.
I would say that at least 25 percent, maybe more, of the time and effort I have put toward this first iBA book has been put toward trying to solve the many problems of iBA. As I solve them, I see the logic behind some of the processes but there are a lot of problems that strike me as having unnecessarily been built into the system and the only way out is to come up with workarounds.
http://www.amazon.com/Gift-Whale-Inupiat-Bowhead-Tradition/dp/1570611637/ref=sr_ 1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408581820&sr=8-1&keywords=Gift+of+the+Whale

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I make extensive use of the Keynote widget when creating my books. On occasion after previewing the book on my iPad, I launch the widget and the screen comes up blank. The only way to get it back to normal is to quit iBooks and restart the app. Then all widgets are back to normal...until it eventually happens again. If one widget goes blank, all widgets in the book go blank. Any suggetions?
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Michi.

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Would anyone know how to have a Keynote widget play automatically?
For example, I would like my Keynote widget to play automatically once the viewer turns to that particular page.
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Sorry if I confused you, my comment about review was if you should make an app instead of a book.
As for the keynote widget, this is true of any media from page-to-page regardless. The only auto-play allowed is at the top of the book when opened.
Your use of the word 'dynamics' makes me hope you don't learn too late that while books can certainly be fluid and entertaining, apps rule when it comes to max presentation, interactivity and dynamism. Apps are typically more complex by nature - my point is to illustrate differences between the two where authors shouldn't bring certain app-like expectations to books. I'd hate to see you conflate the two and frustrate yourself in the process, so I'd rather you hear the news now .
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I am unable to get all keynote transition and slide effect feature in ibook keynote widget. Can it be possible to see same presentation in ibook as was in keynote?

I am unable to get all keynote transition and slide effect features in ibook keynote widget. Can it be possible to see same presentation in ibook as was in keynote?

This Apple Support Document has details on the subset of Keynote transitions which can be used in iBooks Author.
Here are the details:
Transitions and builds
These transitions and builds work with the Keynote widget:
Transitions:
Magic move
Cube
Dissolve
Drop
Flip
Motion dissolve
Move in
Pivot
Push
Reveal
Scale
Twirl
Builds:
Appear/disappear
Cube
Dissolve
Drop
Move in/out
Pivot
Scale
Twirl
Unsupported builds and transitions will be replaced with Dissolve.

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I create star particle effect from this tutorial: http://www.schoolofflash.com/2008/03/flash-cs3-particle-effect/ and got help from this discussion: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5518425 in order to get what I wanted. My code is:
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Each star is created in the addStars function. Its position is set in the first two lines:
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