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Using Live Video objects to integrate active iOS Prototypes into your Keynote Presentation

With the introduction of Live Video objects in the Keynote 11.2 update, it's now a snap to move beyond simple screenshots of your app concepts with an integrated, live view of an attached iOS device's screen – perfect for integrating live Prototypes or Demos directly into your presentation.

In our latest tutorial, we walk through all the basics of configuring your demo device as a Live Video Source and bringing your prototypes to life directly on your slide.

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The Keynote & Pages 11 Upgrade Report

The latest generation of iWork is here: Keynote & Pages 11 arrived in March, further refining the latest generation of Apple's presentation and publishing apps and continuing the evolutions unveiled with the launch of the Keynote & Pages 10.x cycle in 2020.

The latest iWork apps continue to refine & expand on the features and capabilities of the cloud-centric architecture at the heart of their modern, second-era lineage. If you're already up-to-date with Keynote or Pages 10.x, the upgrade to Keynote or Pages 11 should feel largely familiar outside of new features & UI enhancements, with no major changes to general workflow.

New ePUB Book Templates for Pages are Now Available.

Throughout 2019, ePUB Book Templates have been the most frequently requested addition to our Pages Templates systems. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve started to integrate new ePUB Template packs as Add-Ons to our template systems: downloads for Vienna for Pages and Inductor for Pages are available today, and additional systems will be coming online in the weeks ahead.

We’ve largely followed the approach Apple established in the Books sub-tab on the Pages template chooser – with Portrait-style templates designed for traditional, text-oriented reflow/adaptive ePUB books, as well as fixed-layout Landscape templates that provide a more ePUB-optimized variation of each system’s Horizontal Brochure template (available in the Pro Edition downloads).

If you’re new to working with ePUB, you’ll want to have a look at Apple’s Support Article on Creating/Exporting ePUB Books in Pages for more detailed information on what is & isn’t supported in each format, along with tips on publishing your eBooks to your iCloud account or directly to the Apple Books Store.

We’ll be posting update packs for the back catalog on a rolling basis moving forward – keep an eye on the Updates table on our homepage or Support page for more information as it’s available.

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Our Upgrade Report is freshly updated with a deeper look at the new Keynote 9.1 & Pages 8.1 Updates – including new Advanced Text Fills, Face Detection-Aware Cropping, new Inline Objects for Keynote, plus the return of Page-Level Copy & Paste to Pages. https://www.keynotepro.com/support/Keynote9-Pages8-Update_04092019.html

Keynote 9/ Pages 8 Upgrade Report

The latest generation of iWork is here: Keynote 9 and Pages 8 arrived on March 29th, further refining the latest generation of Apple's presentation and publishing apps and continuing the Second-Era evolution that began with the launch of Keynote 6 & Pages 5. Keynote and Pages for iOS are updated as well to version 5.0, adopting many of the same core features of the desktop updates and continuing to add increasing feature-parity with the desktop app.

With the architectural reboot of the previous cycles now firmly in the rear-view mirror, Keynote 9 and Pages 8 continue to refine & expand on the features and capabilities of the cloud-centric architecture at the heart of their modern lineage. If you're already up-to-date with Keynote 8 or Pages 7, the upgrade to Keynote 9 & Pages 8 should feel very familiar, with no major changes to general workflow or the underlying theme / template architectures. All of our currently-shipping NXT-generation themes and templates should perform as expected in the new apps.

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Smart Calendar Templates are now available as an update to Verge for Pages: a mix of photo & planning calendars in the signature Verge layout styles, just change a date field & the Smart Calendar does the rest.

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Re-Mastered to Remix: Pages 7+ Updates

The latest generation of Pages – Pages 7 – arrived in March, further refining the latest generation of Apple's signature publishing app and continuing the Second-Era evolution that began with the launch of Pages 5. As we noted in our latest Upgrade Report, Pages 7 adopted a number of exciting new features this generation – and we're now pleased to announce the release of our first wave of updates tailored especially for the latest architectural & workflow revisions that came along with the Pages 7 release.

As we first hinted at in our Upgrade Report, the re-introduction of Page Masters is something of a seismic shift in the Template Architecture landscape, offering major improvements to authoring workflow & ease-of-use, particularly when it comes to mobile authoring & complex document types like Brochures or Newsletters. Longtime or even casual users of Keynote will find the process of constructing & editing a Page Layout document very familiar now, and Pages '09 authors will finally feel right at home in the transition back toward a more Constructive authoring paradigm.

In many ways, Pages 7 is the long-awaited true successor to Pages '09: the core workflow that made Pages such a joy to use in the first place is not just back – it's better than ever before. If you're new to Pages since version 5.x, you're going to be in for a real treat when you settle into the new workflow. But if you're one of the surprising number of Pages '09 holdouts we've heard from over the last year while we've worked to forge a way forward from the Classic-Era Pages model, Pages 7.x is the proverbial droid you've been looking for.

#Pages 7 #Pages Templates #knpInside

Keynote 8 / Pages 7 Upgrade Report

The latest generation of iWork is here: Keynote 8 and Pages 7 arrived on March 27th, further refining the latest generation of Apple's presentation and publishing apps and continuing the Second-Era evolution that began with the launch of Keynote 6 & Pages 5. Keynote and Pages for iOS are updated as well to version 4.0, adopting many of the same core features of the desktop updates and continuing to add increasing feature-parity with the desktop app.

With the dust of the architectural reboots largely settled during the apps' maturation through the Keynote 7 / Pages 6 lines, Keynote 8 and Pages 7 continue to refine & expand on the features and capabilities of the cloud-centric architecture at the heart of their modern lineage. Pages is the clear stand-out in this cycle, with notable improvements on the Authoring Experience front when it comes to Page Layout documents - including the return of Page Masters - and solidly closing the gap on all but a few absent features in the Pages '09 vs Pages 6.x evolution.

If you're already up-to-date with Keynote 7 or Pages 6, the upgrade to Keynote 8 & Pages 7 should feel minimal at the outset, with no major changes to architecture or general workflow. And if you're just now making the break from the classic iWork '09 workflow, you may be in for a pleasant surprise in terms of how far the new apps have come the last few cycles.

#Keynote 8 #Pages 7

Direct Install for iOS

For the last several years, we've used our iOS QuickLaunch functionality to deliver starter files with pre-applied themes to our customers using Keynote for iOS. Thanks to recent updates, we're now able to leverage that functionality on native .kth theme files themselves, allowing us to initiate installation of our themes directly into your Keynote for iOS Theme Chooser from the KeynotePro website.

If you've ever used our QuickLaunch process to get a theme onto your iOS device, the updated Direct Install process will be very familiar - but rather than ending up with a single instance of the theme pre-applied to a new .key file in Keynote for iOS, you'll now end up with a desktop-like native theme experience, with the theme appearing in the My Themes tab of the Theme Chooser that appears when you create a new document (shown above). It's a big, big improvement over the old QuickLaunch workflow - and goes a long way toward providing a more consistent experience between desktop & mobile authoring scenarios moving forward.

Continue...

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Mixing it Up: Mixed-Mode Document Authoring in Pages 5/6

One of the more disorienting behaviors that crops up when creating documents in the latest generations of Pages is that you can't Copy & Paste actual Page objects from document to document. If you've been using the older Pages '08/'09 architecture for some time, it's something of a jarring shift in the paradigm: while you weren't able to Copy & Paste pages between Word Processing and Page-Layout mode documents before, you could at the very least copy layouts from one Page Layout document to another with relative ease.

Not so with Pages 5.x/6.x - you can copy the contents of the page within the app, but not a page in and of itself. While there are likely good reasons for inhibiting this sort of behavior from an architectural perspective, it can make for a confusing experience when you'd like to mix documents or otherwise use elements from one template in another.

In our latest Tutorial, we look at techniques for working around this behavior with a run-through of the Basics of Page-Layout to Page-Layout migrations and some universal concepts - then we take a deeper look at more advanced operations and how we can blend Page-Layout elements into a Word Processing-mode document, along with how to save a Custom Template to capture your work.

#pages 5 #pages 6 #pages templates

Pages 6.x Upgrade Report

The latest generation of Pages is here: Pages 6.2 arrived on June 14th, a comprehensive update to the earlier 6.x builds launched alongside MacOS Sierra in September and October '16, further refining the latest generation of Apple's publishing app and bringing some long-awaited updates to the architectural transition that began with the launch of Pages 5.0. Pages for iOS is updated as well to version 3.2, adopting many of the same core features of the 6.2 update for the desktop and continuing to add increasing feature-parity with the desktop app.

While the shakeup that came with Pages 5's launch left a number of lingering questions in the air regarding the scope of Apple's road-map for the future of its publishing app, the 6.2 Update closes some of the functional gaps left open during the early stages of the transition, making it much easier than before to transition from an '09-centric workflow toward the updated, cloud-centric workflow of Pages 6.x.

#pages 5 #pages 6 #Pages 6 Templates #knpNews

Use Keynote's Image Adjustment Tools to Improve Image Blends Natively

Image Blends are one of the best ways to make a photo feel "integrated" with the theme it's being used in, particularly if a theme's design is optimized for the approach. Our latest build of the Aurora themes - Aurora NXT - uses this technique extensively, as does last year's KeyStation NXT (to a differing degree). And when the photo you're blending is a good fit for the technique without any adjustment, it's a sort of magical, one-click experience.

All photos are not created equal, however, and basic Transparency mixes like the defaults set in Aurora NXT won't produce optimal results for every photo. We can jump to a tool like Photoshop to take advantage of more advanced Layer Blending options on difficult photos, where Screen or Multiply will often make quick work of this sort of thing. But you can work a surprising bit of magic natively in Keynote 6.x/7.x itself by diving deeper into the Image Adjustment Tools built into the app itself.

Creating Callout/Contrast Charts in Keynote 6.x/7.x

Every Keynote theme includes at least one - and usually several - six-color Chart Style palettes. And if you're looking at a snapshot of concurrent data for two to six different regions all at once, this is precisely how your data visualization should be approached. But if you're wanting to focus on a single region, it can be difficult at times for your audience to hone in on a particular series when they're presented with so much color at once.

In these cases, it's helpful to employ the Callout/Contrast method, sometimes referred to as Series Highlighting. This visualization technique neutralizes the surrounding series colors to effectively treat the series you're focusing on as the Callout or Highlight data that should be focused on.

In our latest Data Visualization tutorial, we take a look at how to use this easy - and powerful - technique for doing away with excess color and making it easy for your audience to zero in on your data with a simple Highlight to draw their attention precisely where it's needed.

#keynote #datavisualization

Instant Classic: Redefine a single Shape Style to transform Palo Alto NXT into Palo Alto Classic

We've received a few questions since the release of Palo Alto NXT from authors who missed the styling details of the older Visible Framework of Palo Alto '08 - in particular the Dashed Lines that made up the framework in the classic Palo Alto architecture.

Thanks to the Shape Styles palette in Keynote 6/7, this is an extremely simple customization you can make in just a few short clicks.

Let's take a look...

#keynote #keynote themes

An Interactive Look: new Elements & JumpStart Template Add-Ons for Disruptor

There are a number of big evolutions happening at KeynotePro in 2017. And while some of the biggest changes won't be seen until a little later this year, the quick take off of our new Disruptor theme gave us the perfect opportunity to preview some of the ways we're going to be making our theme library even more flexible in 2017 and beyond.

While these new Add-Ons are only available for the Disruptor theme at the moment, in the coming weeks and months we'll be extending these kinds of updates to our entire NXT-gen theme catalog, providing even more options for the themes you're already using and making it easier to kick-start your next presentation regardless of which theme you're starting with.

#keynote #keynote templates #knpInside

Some Tips - and Cautions - on Posting Interactive Presentations in Keynote 7.1

Keynote 7.1 makes it easy to post interactive presentations on WordPress, Medium and the web - but be mindful of how much you're actually sharing.

The Keynote 7.1 Update brought an interesting new feature to Apple's presentation app: the ability to Post Interactive Presentations to WordPress, Medium and the web. We touched on this briefly in our Keynote 7.1 Upgrade Report, and while the new service still has a few bugs to work out and may not be for everyone yet, there's already a lot of buzz building around the web from authors anxious to explore an easy alternative to SlideShare and other online slide-hosting services.

Apple's made it very easy - though not entirely intuitive - to share your presentations with this new feature. But you'll want to be mindful of how much you're actually sharing with this service at the moment: there are a few non-obvious Privacy/Security concerns with the current implementation that are worth noting before you rush to try this out, particularly for business presenters.

#Keynote 7 #keynote #knpInside

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