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Keynote and Leopard, anything new?
Posted by | Posted in Opinions & Thoughts, Tips | Posted on 10-26-2007
We’re posting this link out here for us and the other Keynote users to post any differences they find between Keynote on Leopard and Keynote on Tiger. If you find anything, post it in the comments!
1) When using Command-Shift-4 to take a screenshot, it gives you a numerical readout right next to the icon of the X-Y value of the pixel you’re currently hovering over (hard to get a screenshot of that).
2) Also, if you follow Command-Shift-4 with pressing the space bar (to snap a window), it no longer grabs JUST the Window, it also captures an area bordering the window. This appears to be a result of the new shadows for 10.5 windows. Though it doesn’t capture the background, you will have to do a little more editing of your images if you ONLY want the window (Instant Alpha is great for this, one click cleans it up).
Incidentally, the Grab.app snaps only the window, just as you’d expect.
3) The “Front Row” trick still works just as it did before, but, of course, now it has the “Apple TV” look.
4) Another thing you’ll like is the new voice in Leopard. Called “Alex”, it’s more natural sounding than all of the others AND if you install the Developer Tools, you get access to a nice little app called “Speech Synthesis Example”.
This app allows you to type what you want into the text area and, once you have it like you want it, you can then SAVE that spoken audio to an .aiff file. A great way to add explanatory spoken examples to your presentation.
5) If you like the mirroring look Apple uses for some of the images in their presentations, there’s another cool thing installing the Developer Tools gives you, a Quartz Composer image texture that utilizes a reflection gradient.
Just drop in the image you want, manually change the Y-rotation and you’ve got a mirrored image with the proper perspective! Another click to disable the black background and you can place it over whatever color background you like.
6) The problem with Hebrew/Arabic text posted here appears to be resolved when Keynote ’06 or ’08 is running on Leopard.
I have been experiencing problems when copying pictures or text snippets from preview to keynote 08 working with leopard. The whole page in stead of the picture appears on the slide when pasting.
I’m not seeing this. What steps are you going through when you see this occur?
Where is Speech Synthesis Example to be found?
Starting at the Hard Drive level, it’s in
Developer/Examples/Speech/Synthesis/SpeechSynthesisExample.
All of these examples have to be built before you can use them, but that’s easy with Xcode. Double-click the SpeechSynthesisExample.xcodeproj file and when Xcode opens, click the hammer with the green arrow next to it for “Build and Go”. Xcode will build it (doesn’t take very long) and then launch it.
You’re a good man Ken
I don’t care what everyone else says!
I’d love a little more information on the Quartz Composer 3d reflection example. Step by step for newbs
Sure, I just posted some instructions recently. I’ll see if I can get them posted here.
After installing the Developer Tools, you’ll find “Image Texturing Properties – Reflection Gradient.qtz” at this path.
+Macintosh HD+/Developer/Examples/Quartz Composer/Compositions/Conceptual
You can load an image into the first node of the composition (click on the node, open the inspector, change to the “Settings” pane and click that “Import From File…” button)
Then, in the final two “Sprite” nodes, alter the “Y Rotation” to something like 25 (whatever number you choose, both have to be the same)
And that’s pretty much it.
Thank you! (It would be great if you could have 3d manipulation directly within keynote!!)
The *.qtz file is not available in the Developer tools for Tiger, but surely it still works.
It likely doesn’t work as it utilizes features only available in Leopard. For example, Tiger has a similar qtz file, but it doesn’t automatically do a gradient on the lower image.