iWork '09: The Missing Manual

Shipping Your Slides to Other iApps

You’ve already seen how you can send your slideshow to iTunes (Emailing Slideshows) and iWeb; Keynote plays matchmaker with several other “iApp” programs, too, letting you use your slideshow in iChat, iDVD, iPhoto, and GarageBand.

Sharing Slides in iChat Theater

When you combine Keynote and iChat, you don’t have to be in a darkened room to share your slideshow—you don’t even have to be in the same room. Instead, a feature called iChat Theater lets you transmit your presentation across the Internet in a video chat. Pitch your marketing presentation while you sit at home in your pajamas; you control the slideshow from your desktop, and your audience watches it on theirs, listening to your voice as you take them through your spiel. You can give the presentation to anyone with whom you could normally have a video chat.

Note

You need Mac OS X 10.5 or later to use iChat Theater. For help with using iChat, launch the iChat program and go to Help → iChat Help.

If you already have a video chat underway, you can fire up your slideshow in iChat Theater by dragging the Keynote file’s icon from your desktop and into the video chat window. Otherwise, follow these steps to start your slideshow:

1. In iChat, choose File → Share a File with iChat Theater.

   iChat opens the “Share with iChat Theater” window. Browse your hard drive to find your Keynote document, and click Share.

2. A window appears in iChat asking you to start a video chat. Pick a buddy from your buddy list, and ...