Comments on: What? Hidden strokes too?

By: RMx

RMx — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:13:03 +0000

Hi, Brian.
Don’t know if you’re still posting here, but maybe this question will inspire you. I’ve noticed in converted PPT files two customizations I can’t find in Keynote.
1. Customized bullets. You can type in any character in the Text Bullet cell, but how do you change the font so other cool ZD or Symbol characters will show up?
2. How do you add divider slides to the Navigation view? I just imported a PPT and there are two there; they are slides but appear as dividers in the Navigation view.
Thanx!
Ron

By: David Etter

David Etter — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:55:14 +0000

I can confirm that this also works for iWork ’09! Thanks Brian!!

By: Geoff Liang

Geoff Liang — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:56:50 +0000

For these I say thank you.

By: Brian Peat

Brian Peat — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:07:26 +0000

The strokes show up at the TOP of the grid of frames. The only big difference you’ll notice is that they can be re-colored.

By: DN

DN — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:01:12 +0000

I added frames the way the 1st article explained, and I can immediately see more frame options available to me, great! But this second article on how to add strokes… maybe I’m missing something, but I dont’ see any difference in options when I switch out the strokes file. Where exactly am I supposed to see more stroke options?

By: Brian Peat

Brian Peat — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:20:19 +0000

Actually, they did this with 06 too. Go to the Keynote prefs, there’s a check box there to turn on the obsolete transitions. They’ll all show up in your list then.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:09:54 +0000

Hi. I seems that Apple has hidden some transitions, too. I don’t know how to reactivate them but I’m missing some of the old transitions from Keynote 06. But when I open a Keynote 06 file they are all there in the drop down field. Amazing. Maybe you can hack this? Maybe we get some amazing new transitions as well? Greetings, Leonardo

By: b-dot

b-dot — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:44:40 +0000

thanks for this!!!

By: Brian Peat

Brian Peat — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:16:39 +0000

yes, see the previous post, there’s no “fix” but the work around is to use the less of the frames, which is why I posted a file that only used 50 or so frames.

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:10:55 +0000

I love having the new frames to use! One question… When I added the new strokes to the frames described on the previous post, I can’t see all of them because they go up under the menu bar like the problem with too many themes. Any work around?

By: Brian Peat

Brian Peat — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:43:42 +0000

thanks! I fixed it.

By: John

John — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:43:31 +0000

Bah… comment form doesn’t seem to handle less-than signs.

Maybe this’ll work: It’s missing a < in the second string line.

By: John

John — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:42:03 +0000

Note that your modified plist file is missing a “

By: Brian Peat

Brian Peat — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:08:41 +0000

read the previous story to get the instructions. This is part 2.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:59:34 +0000

I don’t know what to do with the patch after it is downloaded??

By: Gerry Straathof

Gerry Straathof — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:14:37 +0000

Like the frames in your previous post, once you have turned on these functions in your own Keynote program and used them, you can incorporate them into a design or theme and when you share them, anyone with iwork’08 will be able to use them.

They are especially interesting when you use them with shapes created with SVG2Key. And they can be used as image masks using those same shapes. An awesome addition to any designers arsenal in all three programs.

By: Gerry Straathof

Gerry Straathof — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:55:48 +0000

Those are basically the same as the ones introduced in iWeb ’06. Sadly you cannot just copy and paste them into Keynote to use them. I’m still trying to see if you can reference them in an unaltered file for Pages, liike the Photo Frames, or if you have to modify that program as well.

Hopefully it’s just a matter of copying and pasting the styles. This does kind of show, though, that iwork and iweb are diverging from their similarities, which is too bad. I would like to have seen them develop the ‘layout library’ in a similar fashion to the ‘core library’ or ‘image library’.