New in Keynote ’08
Amaze your audience with cinema-quality presentations that are easier than ever to create. Use the new features in Keynote ’08 — the latest version of Apple’s powerful presentation software — to tell your story effectively and dramatically.
New text effects and transitions.
Apply dazzling text effects and captivate viewers with elegant transitions.
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A to B Animations.
Move objects along a path, or slowly scale an image — creating smooth animations is simple.
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Instant Alpha.
Now you see it. Now you don’t. Removing a background is click-and-drag easy.
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Voice-over Recording.
Now you can deliver a great presentation. And you don’t even have to be there.
Smart Builds.
Drop photos into a presentation and Keynote creates a sophisticated animation.
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New Apple-designed Themes.
Nine new themes offer more choices for creating professional presentations quickly.
Get started in minutes.
Professionally designed templates. Superb organizational tools. Dynamic tables. Elegant 2D and 3D charts. Even comments to jog your memory. Keynote ’08 provides the tools to get you started, stay on track, and cross the finish line.
A theme party.
An impressive collection of more than 35 Apple-designed themes means you can create a cinema-quality presentation in minutes — even if you’re using Keynote for the first time. Each theme has multiple slide masters with coordinated fonts, textures, and layouts for bullets, charts, images, and more.
Navigate with ease.
With the powerful Slide Navigator and Light Table in Keynote, you can efficiently organize your presentation. Both tools make it easy to review and scroll through slides. Handy controls even let you increase or decrease thumbnail size.
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Dynamic tables and stunning charts.
With a single click, you can add a table to any slide. Fill cells with text, graphics, or photos. Format numbers for currency or dates. Or add a calculation — even aggregate functions like Sum — and let Keynote do the math. It’s just as easy to add 2D and 3D bar, line, and area charts complete with realistic textures.
Powerful graphic tools.
Keynote ’08 offers a wide selection of easy-to-use tools that let you include rich graphics in your presentations—even if you don’t have a graphics department helping you.
Precise alignment tools.
Place text, photos, and other objects precisely where you’d like them to appear using vertical and horizontal rulers. Turn on alignment guides and Keynote offers dynamic feedback, letting you align an object with the center or edge of an existing object.
Easy access to photos and more.
You already have some great media assets to include in your presentation. Using the built-in Media Browser, you can browse and preview the photos in your iPhoto or Aperture libraries, the movies in your Movies folder, and the music in your iTunes library, and add them to your presentation.
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Great adjustment tools.
Built-in imaging tools let you adjust photos till they’re picture perfect. Without leaving Keynote ’08, you can resize and rotate photos, add a reflection or a shadow, and even remove backgrounds with the new Instant Alpha.
Get into shapes.
Create images you need on the spot using predrawn shapes. Customize the standard shapes in a variety of ways. Or draw Bézier curves and other shapes with perfectly smooth edges. You can even use shapes for photo masking.
Put your ideas in motion.
Get used to the unwavering attention of your audience. Keynote ’08 lets you capture their interest with cinema-quality animations and effects that are sophisticated yet easy to create.
Show-stopping transitions.
As you move from one slide to the next, keep their eyes riveted to the screen using more than 25 transitions, including Confetti, Blur, and swap. You can control duration, delay, direction, and other transition effects.
Text that sizzles.
Once you have their attention, keep it with amazing text and object animations. Make words drop like confetti. Build your slide one bullet, table row, or chart series at a time. Or have it all appear at once, entering stage left or bursting suddenly into flame.
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Spectacular animations built smart.
With Keynote, you don’t have to be a graphic designer to create eye-popping animations. Thanks to Smart Builds, you can add compelling animations in seconds. Simply drag photos into the drop zone and define Action parameters, including direction, angle, and perspective.
Going from A to B.
Keynote helps you tackle advanced animations — like defining an animation path and setting the timing of the animation as an object moves from point to point or along a smooth Bézier curve. Want to change its opacity as it moves? That’s easy, too.
Flexible delivery options.
Whether you plan to give your presentation in person or have your audience view it on a kiosk or an iPod, Keynote ’08 provides you with a variety of ways to deliver presentations to audiences of any size.
Built-in voiceover recording.
Give a presentation without being there. Using the new built-in recording tool, Keynote captures your audio voiceover and timing as you step through builds or move from one slide to the next.
Save presentations as interactive slideshows that allow viewer participation. By embedding hyperlinks in next and previous buttons, you can let a viewer move effortlessly through a presentation.
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Present with total confidence.
If you present to a live audience, you can do so with total confidence thanks to Presenter Display. While your presentation appears on the main display for your audience, you can see the current and next slides, your slide notes, a clock, and a timer on a second display.
New delivery options.
To reach a wide audience, export your Keynote presentation directly to YouTube, send it to iTunes, or post it on your website with iWeb. Or use GarageBand to include your slides in a video podcast.
Easy to share.
Keynote ’08 lets you import PowerPoint and AppleWorks presentations and share your presentations with others, by exporting them as PowerPoint presentations or a variety of other formats.
Open to possibilities.
Versatile in so many ways, Keynote imports presentations created in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (Office Open XML) as well as earlier versions. It also imports AppleWorks presentation documents.
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Keynote is open to a wide variety of media types, including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, EPS, PDF, AIFF, MP3, AAC, MOV, and others.
Thoughts to share.
Once you’ve completed your presentation, you can share it with colleagues who use Windows by exporting your presentation in .ppt format for use in Microsoft PowerPoint. You can also export it as a QuickTime movie, a Flash movie, or as a PDF, HTML, or image file.
