Keynote developed by Apple Inc. is slide presentation software for the the Apple line of products, include Mac desktop machines and iPads. Part of the iWork suite of software, which includes Numbers (a spreadsheet application) and Pages (for documents), Keynote is now in version 6, released October 2013. According to Wikipedia, Keynote gained exposure when Al Gore used it for presentations in "In inconvenient Truth".
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How can I create an Apple Keynote Presentation from scratch?
I am trying to write a program that creates an Apple Keynote Slide. I was hoping to find some answers about creating apple's xml format (apxl) from scratch using Java. I have found a few documents pertaining to older versions of Keynote that allow…

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Software or Tricks For Live Coding Presentation
I am going to be giving an intro presentation / training class on Ruby on Rails soon. I would like to make it interesting and engaging while still seeming "polished". Since it's a hands-on class most people will be building an app along with me, I…

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How do I programmatically convert a Keynote file to a PowerPoint?
Anyone know any good tools to convert a keynote file to a PowerPoint one? We have an online tool that currently accepts PPT/PPTX files and we then use Aspose tools to do more with it. But we're needing to accept keynote files too and the easiest…

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Pages and Keynote URL Scheme
Does anybody know, what is the URL Scheme for Pages and Keynote? I need it to open my 'Pages' App and 'Keynote' App from a button I have created. If there is no an URL Scheme for Keynote and Pages, what should I do to open these two apps?
I really…

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Programmatically generate Keynote slides from text data
I wrote a database web app for handling church worship songs, and I'm trying to add a module to output selected songs for projecting the lyrics. I initially thought all my users were using Powerpoint, which can import a simple text file with each…

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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…

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iOS - SDK - How do I open large keynote files in UIWebView?
I am trying to load a large Keynote file (~150MB) into a UIWebView and I keep getting memory warnings and my app crashes.
Is there a way around this?
What is the proper way to open files that are this large without opening them in another…

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show .key(keynote) file in iphone
I am given some keynote files .
I have to put along with an app .
when I open any app it should show that keynote presentation in the app .
my questions are ,
Does ios supports keynote presentation?
if yes, how to show them ?
However I checked…

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URL scheme reference for the Keynote iPad app?
I'm trying to launch the Keynote app from the application that I'm building. How can I know the URL scheme supported by Keynote (if any) ?

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Display Cocoa window above Keynote presentation
Some context: I am building a tool to be used on screen during a Keynote or PowerPoint presentation.
The biggest issue I've had so far is that Keynote seems to take over the desktop whenever you view a presentation. I have tried setting my Cocoa…

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Monitoring Keynote 6 presentation using ScriptingBridge
I've developed an application which gathers some information on presentations and monitors the behaviour of the presenter during the presentation. The applications is an OS X app build in Objective-C with the Cocoa Framework
In the past I've used…

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Applescript to add an audio file to keynote and upload the file to youtube
I am trying to use either automator or applescript to do two things.
add an mp3 to an open keynote presentation (to the entire presentation and not a single slide)
upload the resulting keynote presentation to youtube.
If I use the add file…

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Generating Powerpoint or Keynote from XML (or via a Ruby gem?)
I'm looking for a nice way to generate either a Keynote file from XML or a Powerpoint file that I can then import to Keynote. Basically, I'm looking for a simple human-writable markup format (for easy scripting) that can be exported into slides.
I…

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How to get a Keynote presentation to display in a PWA?
I have a strange scenario in which I’d like to have a Keynote presentation appear inside a PWA, running as it usually would in the Keynote app, but without the option to pinch out. I’ve tried a few niche forums on the problem, most of which seem to…
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How to eliminate keynote to take over the whole screen in slideshow mode
We are building a Desktop app which has to activate keynote application on desktop automatically in slideshow mode.
The problem is that the slideshow is taking over the whole screen.
Is there a way to control the size of the keynote window in…

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