I adore what I can do with Keynote. But since most clients only have PowerPoint, all that glitz is lost when converted. They don't want a QuickTIme movie of a presentation, or a Flash executable.
Apple REALLY needs to release a Keynote Player for Windows.
I originally said I would purchase Office 2008, but I think I'll convert to OpenOffice once it's ported to the Aqua interface (and is outside the beta stages).
I wish Apple would make iWork applications save as XML documents by default. It would allow more seamless sharing between Mac and Windows users since Windows users cannot access Pages files. (It's cumbersome to export it to a different file format.)
I wish Apple would make iWork applications save as XML documents by default.
iWork does save it's files as XML by default.
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It would allow more seamless sharing between Mac and Windows users since Windows users cannot access Pages files. (It's cumbersome to export it to a different file format.)
It's not that cumbersome.
No, what you want is Microsoft's Office XML format, which is different to Apple's and different again to OpenOffice.org's XML format.
I just export them to a .mov file. The "movie" will automatically pause at each slide, and you retain all of the special effects, something you can't guarantee when you convert to PowerPoint.
I just export them to a .mov file. The "movie" will automatically pause at each slide, and you retain all of the special effects, something you can't guarantee when you convert to PowerPoint.
That's good for 90% of decks but does that support builds in a slide?
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Nobody hates giving Microsoft money more than I do, but that fact that most of my clients need Office files, not Office-compliant files.
Unless they need to also edit those files then I prefer to send PDFs and then it really doesn't matter how it was produced.
Mac Office and Windows Office still have differences that cause issues and at least you know that what you send is what they get with a PDF.
I adore what I can do with Keynote. But since most clients only have PowerPoint, all that glitz is lost when converted. They don't want a QuickTIme movie of a presentation, or a Flash executable.
Apple REALLY needs to release a Keynote Player for Windows.
Apple REALLY needs to release a Keynote Player for Windows.
You're too right... That would really make Keynote a valuable app!
I wish Apple would make iWork applications save as XML documents by default. It would allow more seamless sharing between Mac and Windows users since Windows users cannot access Pages files. (It's cumbersome to export it to a different file format.)
Apple REALLY needs to release a Keynote Player for Windows.
or just be able to export to a standalone application (both windows and mac)
or just be able to export to a standalone application (both windows and mac)
The problem with that is many corporate email systems block executables.
I wish Apple would make iWork applications save as XML documents by default.
iWork does save it's files as XML by default.
It would allow more seamless sharing between Mac and Windows users since Windows users cannot access Pages files. (It's cumbersome to export it to a different file format.)
It's not that cumbersome.
No, what you want is Microsoft's Office XML format, which is different to Apple's and different again to OpenOffice.org's XML format.
Sigh.
Apple REALLY needs to release a Keynote Player for Windows.
Great idea.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/keynote.html
I just export them to a .mov file. The "movie" will automatically pause at each slide, and you retain all of the special effects, something you can't guarantee when you convert to PowerPoint.
That's good for 90% of decks but does that support builds in a slide?