Hello to all. I was wondering how usable and accessible the new keynote is. I have a presentation in about 3 weeks. I'm in the middle of writing the text before I update, but I am reading some very negative reviews on the new key note. Here are just some examples. If there are work arounds for any of these let me know so that I can have my professor read the presentation and my class mates as well with success.
excerpts of reviews. 1. I’ve used Keynote for creating rich presentations and animations for years, viewing it as something between a more capable PowerPoint and a simpler AfterEffects. However, I’m shocked that Apple would ship a product as bug-ridden as the latest version. Don’t bother inserting photographs or vector images into your presentation because they’ll magically disappear the next time you open the file. Don’t bother animating images because when they go missing and you have to replace them, you will lose all of your animation. Don’t bother duplicating slides with images because they’ll also magically disappear. Don’t bother exporting to Quicktime because Keynote might freeze and break the links to all of your imported media. Setting the position of an image uses the coordinates of the top left corner. Animating an image uses the coordinates from the center. And, by the way, if you need to place something at an exact pixel position, make sure you’re zoomed to 100% or Keynote will ignore the numbers you enter. P.S. If you just need to put text on slides and have them transition from one to another, Keynote is probably fine for you. But you could use PowerPoint or Google Slides for that. 2. Eversince Apple dropped the inrared feature on the Mac, Apple has not had a dependable (or even functional) remote way to use Keynote. The Apple Remote for Apple TV does not work, Bluetooth has never worked, the previous Keynote Remote App never worked and now the “new” upgrade to Keynote for the Mac and iPhone/iPad does not work (even with 2 NEW devices: Macbook Pro and iPhone). I was told that it will only work with home Wi-Fi and not at businesses or schools…… sort of defeats the purpose of Keynote for business presentations and lectures. I will have to go back to using my Microsoft wireless mouse as a remote device for Keynote presentations. Apple seems to be moving backwards and not forward…... 3. I am starting to hate Apples software. This is the second software that they have officially screwed up!!! I do slide shows for wedding receptions and the new version will not let you change the duration of the slides. I use to use iMovie to do slides until the recent update, in which they screwed it up and you can’t do slides in it anymore either. If they don’t find the next Bill Gates, the products and software we all have grown to know and love will be extinct!!!! 4. Seems my previous review, which was up, has now been deleted. Looks like Apple really wants to keep their head in the sand when it comes to hearing about just how bad Keynote now is. This ".1” update didn’t improve it any, either. I don’t know where all these new 5-star ratings are coming from, but they can’t be from actual business users. As has been said, Keynote 6 is still far below the capabilities of Keynote 5.x. It will break your Keynote 5 presentations by removing everything it no longer supports; exporting the file back to a “Keynote ’09” presentation won’t revert it, you just get stuck with the broken Keynote 6 version redone in ’09’s file format. Kiss all your work goodbye unless you can find a previous copy through Versions or Time Machine. It drops changes, images and transitions between saves randomly so you end up with a presentation that worked while making it, yet isn’t guaranteed to work as designed when you reopen it. There is NO support for OpenType font features (despite the fact Keynote 5.x had it & even TextEdit has it) which is a big deal for us; more than other office software, presentation apps are visual and we can’t display typography properly with this version. And there is still no AppleScript support so your customized extensibility is impossible. Even though it won’t work with iOS anymore, keep Keynote 5.x if you’re lucky enough to still have it. If you don’t, skip Keynote 6 and avoid the frustration. Jobs once said this app “was built for me!” I can only imagine how he’d react to this version. and that's the tip of the iceberg. I know I'm supposed to take all of this with a grain of sea salt, how ever with so many bad reviews and one user's review being deleted, I'm beginning to doubt apple's listening to feedback. Anyway if there are work arounds for any of these I'd love to hear them as I want to upload this to my professor and class mates in about 3 weeks. Take care all and be blessed. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. 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