Mac OS X Power Hound, Second Edition

Keynote

Keynote is Apple’s presentation (slideshow) software, a PowerPoint killer designed to let you create fancy audiovisual presentations. With Keynote, any Mac fan can create Steve Jobs-like presentations with ease. After all, Apple’s programmers created Keynote from the ground up, just for His Steveness.

Borrowing Images from Apple’s Themes

Keynote includes a number of high-quality, professionally designed themes—collections of graphics, fonts, and colors designed to look good together. Sometimes, though, you might like to use one especially good-looking theme’s graphics in your own themes, or even in other programs. This hint shows you how to do that:

1. In the Finder, Control-click the Keynote program’s icon. From the shortcut menu, choose Show Package Contents.

   The program’s package window opens (Section P.3.5.1).

2. Open the Contents → Resources → Themes folder.

   This folder contains all of the Keynote themes.

   Note

   If you’ve installed any Keynote themes that you obtained from another source, such as the Keynote Theme Park (www.keynotethemepark.com), those themes are usually in Library → Application Support → Keynote → Themes.

   Apple has given each theme a number, followed by the theme name and its size. In other words, 05_Letterpress_8 6.kth is the fifth theme, named Letterpress, and it’s sized for an 800 600 pixel monitor. (Graphics sized for a 1024 768 screen say “10 7.”)

3. Control-click the theme you’re interested in copying images from. From the shortcut menu, choose Show Package ...