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Creating a Keynote theme
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I just got Keynote 2 and I'm loving it. For a job I have to do, I need to make a Keynote theme. From what I've seen, it shouldn't be that hard. All I have to do is cut holes in the background. But I'm still lost on how to set the fills in custom shapes and bullets, the fonts, etc. If you can help, that'd be great. Also, does anyone have any ideas on what it should look like or know about any tricks that you saw in a theme? If it goes well, I might give it out.
(Last edited by CreepingDeth; Jan 30, 2005 at 10:12 AM.
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Chapter 9 in the User's Guide runs through all of this from an overview perspective... though it's all a bit more involved than cutting holes in a background  Charts especially can be time consuming if you're just getting your feet wet, as each chart type carries its own definition...
Tom Negrino's book - Visual Quickstart Guide: Keynote for Max OS X - goes into a lot more detail, and while the current edition is still Keynote 1 in nature, the same practices still apply.
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I was simplifying it a bit. I have the cutouts done, and I figured out how to do most of the stuff. I just need an idea or a suggestion. I was thinking about letting people build cutouts from corners and lines in the supplemental objects you include with it. Maybe a simple PDF object, but I'm not sure how I can make that into a cutout.
I'm still stuck on a material, though. I was going to recycle some of my dark looking stuff, but I'd rather make something gray/white. Ugh. Anyone have an idea for that?
[Edit] Ok, I got a new idea. You know that theme you use for kiosks? In my theme, on the top there will be some of those buttons for home, forward, and backward. I might also have a slide at the end that will have a preview of all the slides and link them to those slides. Now, I have to find a way for that slide not to be shown. I'd also like to see if I can make those arrows have a roll over like web buttons do. I was thinking a interactive movie, but I'm not sure how that'd work.
(Last edited by CreepingDeth; Jan 30, 2005 at 08:45 AM.
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Originally posted by CreepingDeth:
Maybe a simple PDF object, but I'm not sure how I can make that into a cutout.
Photoshop PDF with transparency enabled (or stick to TIFF or PNG24) - just treat it like an alpha and Keynote will interpret it that way.
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What about that theme navigation idea?
[Edit] Nevermind, looks like I can do alot of that stuff right.
Here's what I have so far on the background.
What do you think? I'm not sure I like it.
I'm also a little confused on some of the hyperlink stuff. Why is it that I can only see an Apple page in the slideshow, even though I changed the URL? And what does the "link to Keynote document" do?
(Last edited by CreepingDeth; Jan 30, 2005 at 10:11 AM.
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