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SlideSix Adds Support For Mac Users

Posted At : July 17, 2008 1:19 PM | Posted By : todd sharp
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Many folks have suggested that I add support for Keynote presentations to SlideSix and while I would certainly love to add full support for that format the truth is there just aren't any* existing tools that I've found to do the conversion.

However I've come up with what seems like a workable solution for my Mac friends. SlideSix now supports QuickTime (MOV) files which can easily be created from a Keynote file from what I understand. Basically SlideSix will create a slide for each frame in the QuickTime movie. From my limited tests the conversion works flawlessly and with impressive results.

*As a side note, have you ever 'reached the end of the internet'? I literally searched through roughly 60 pages of Google results one night trying to find a conversion process/tool. When I got to the final page I felt like I had literally hit the 'end' of the internet. Yes, I'm weird... :)

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http://www.weirdity.com/internet/eoti.html

# Posted By Matt Williams | 7/17/08 4:27 PM

This post got me curious so I opened a .key file in the finder (right click "show package contents"). Right within that folder is all the tiffs, gifs, and jpgs that are used in the presentation, and there is a file called index.apxl.gz. If you unzip that file (double click) and open index.apxl in a text editor it is a "simple" XML file.

None of the namespace URLs lead to any documentation (http://developer.apple.com/namespaces/keynote2 for example), but if you really wanted to it would be possible (but time consuming) to reverse engineer the format.

Not much help, but in case someone hits this post in a future google search...

# Posted By rob | 7/18/08 2:17 AM

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