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Leopard loves iWork 06
Posted by | Posted in Bugs, Tips | Posted on 11-05-2007
Over the last few days we’ve noticed a pattern with Leopard upgraders…many have complained that their old presentations no longer work in Keynote under Leopard. While there may actually be some strange compatibility issues, this one is most likely a very fixable bug in Leopard regarding iWork 06. If you have a copy of iWork 06 and iWork 08 on the same Leopard machine and you double click a .key file, you may find that Leopard launches Keynote 3 instead of Keynote 08 (v4). The best way to tell if this is happening is to watch your dock. If you see a blue podium bouncing in the dock, and NOT the new brown podium, you’ve been bit by the bug. The result is Keynote 3 trying to open a Keynote 4 file and telling you it can’t open it.
So what can you do to fix this? Well, normally, you can simply click on the .key file, choose Get Info from the File menu, and change the “Open with” setting to the correct copy of Keynote. Unfortunately, this is where the bug kicks in. In our tests, changing the default app did NOT stick, and in fact, if we hit the Change All… button, we could visibly see the setting switch BACK to Keynote 3 right before our eyes.
The solution was to rename Keynote in the iWork 06 folder to Keynote 3. Renaming it so that there weren’t two copies of an app called Keynote on the machine seemed to fix the problem right away (though you might find you still need to use the Get Info window to change the default Keynote app). We hope this tip will help some of you who might be experiencing this same problem.
Well, more concerning is that after the quicktime update Videos no longer play in keynote, Running leopard and 08. Problem, ummm just a little bit.
Videos seem to work okay on my tower, it’s fonts that are the issue for me now, specifically Helvetica Neue
In my lab we are experiencing problems with videos in keynote’08: if a slide contains a video it is shown as a black screen.
It happens on two different MacBooks Pro.
Mike, the problem with video playback has a solution: go to the Keynote preferences, in the section of the presentation prefs, and select “Allow Expose, Dashboard and others to use screen”.
I’ve read it on http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1236793&tstart=0 and now everything works on both our MBPs.
All:
I’ve also found a work-a-round to open files with KN 08 to avoid the error. Simply drag the file you want to open to the KN 08 icon on the doc. The file will open using KN 08 without the error.
As for quicktime videos not playing, I had an issue with this after upgrading to leopard. I found I needed to reinstall my (flip for mac WMV) and MPEG 2 quicktime components. Once these add-ins were up and running all works perfectly.
Good Luck!
Addendum:
I forgot to mention an additional work-a-round. Within KN 08, select File Open, navigate to the desired file, select, and open. The KN file will open in KN 08 without error. (I’m suspect most of you have discovered this, but thought it was worth mentioning).
Jon
Thanks Marco for the help with videos. Worked perfectly
This worked for me!
The workaround is to go to the Keynote Preferences, in the Slideshow section, and check “Allow Exposé, Dashboard, and others to use screen”.
I love Keynote 08, except for one thing. And it’s big. I often duplicate screens and recycle the usable parts, replacing old text with new content. Saves time and work! However, in ’08, the outline continues to reflect the original content. The text is not updated in the outline version. As an educator, I rely on being able to produce outlines for my presentations. Can’t do it unless each presentation is created from scratch. Bummer! Any solutions out there. Any known reasons why the text is not updated in the outline? (Yes, it has been re-saved with new text.) Any help appreciated.