KEYNOTE (PRESENTATION CREATION SOFTWARE)

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'Keynote' is a presentation software application developed by Apple Inc. and a part of the iWork productivity suite (which also includes Pages and Numbers) sold by Apple for US$79 in the United States (£55 GBP in United Kingdom). Released in August 2007, the latest version, Keynote 4, runs on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard only.

Contents

History

Features

Version history

See also

External links

History

Keynote began as a software program for Apple CEO Steve Jobs to use in creating the presentations for Macworld Conference and Expo and other Apple keynote events. The program was eventually sold publicly as Keynote 1.0, competing against existing presentation software, most notably Microsoft PowerPoint. Unlike PowerPoint, Keynote has full support for almost all image types, and the interface and design are much more graphic-oriented, allowing the creation of what advocates of the program think of as more visually appealing slides. Since Keynote makes use of Mac OS X's built-in graphics technologies such as Quartz, it can produce such slides very easily. In addition, Keynote includes truly 3D transitions, such as a rotating cube or a simple flip of the slide.
Some have suggested that early versions of Keynote are very close to the Lighthouse Design Concurrence presentation software, which Jobs was said to have appreciated greatly in his move from glass slides to the electronic version using NeXTSTEP (NeXTWORLD). Roger Rosner [1], a director of Apple and previous founder and director of Lighthouse Design, has contributed greatly to Concurrence and other Lighthouse applications.
Apple released Keynote 2.0 during Macworld San Francisco 2005 in conjunction with Pages, a new word processing and page layout application. The two applications were sold together in a software package called iWork. At Macworld San Francisco 2006, Apple released iWork '06 with updated versions of Keynote and Pages. In addition to official HD compatibility, Keynote 3 added new features, including group scaling, 3D charts, multi-column text boxes, auto bullets in any text field, image adjustments, and free form masking tools.

Features

★ Themes that allow the user to keep consistency in colors and fonts throughout the presentation, including charts, graphs and tables.

★ OpenGL-powered 3D slide transitions and builds that resemble rolling cubes or flipping pages, or dissolving transitions that fade one slide into the next.

★ Dual monitor support: the presenter can show the presentation on a screen and still see the desktop or notes from his or her laptop.

★ Exports to PDF, QuickTime, Flash, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, HTML (with JPEG images) and PowerPoint. Keynote also uses .key (presentation files) and .kth (theme files) bundles based on XML. [2]

★ Supports all QuickTime video formats (including MPEG-2 and DV) in slideshows.

★ Version 3 brings export to iDVD with clickability

Version history

Version Number	Release Date	Changes
1.0	January 7, 2003	Initial release.
1.1	June 04, 2003	Various enhancements to improve functionality and compatibility.
1.1.1	October 28, 2003	Improved stability and several user experience enhancements.
2.0	January 11, 2005	Released as part of the new iWork 05 package. Includes new transitions/animations, 20 new themes, new presenter tools and improved export options, including export to Flash.
2.0.1	March 21, 2005	Addressed isolated issues that may have affected reliability.
2.0.2	May 25, 2005	Addressed isolated issues that may have affected reliability.
3.0	January 10, 2006	New version released as part of the iWork 06 package. Includes new transitions/animations, new themes and graphics. Also compiled to run natively on both PowerPC and Intel processors as a universal binary.
3.0.1	April 4, 2006	This update to Keynote 3.0 addresses issues with three-dimensional charts and textures. It also addresses a number of other minor issues. This update should be installed on all computers that share your Keynote 3.0 files, so that textures display properly.
3.0.2	September 28, 2006	This update is for Keynote 3.0.1 and addresses compatibility for accessing Aperture 1.5 content in Keynote.
4.0	August 7, 2007	New text effects, new transitions, Instant Alpha, Smart Builds.

See also

★ Microsoft PowerPoint

★ Presentation program

★ OpenOffice.org Impress

★ Slideshow

External links

★ Official website of Keynote

★ Keynote Yahoo! Group — Help and advice for users of Keynote

★ iWork Yahoo! Group — Help and advice for users of Apple's iWork (Pages and Keynote)

★ Hints for inserting equations in Keynote.