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Why are keynote documents so big ?

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Geico Caveman

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Nov 21, 2009, 8:58:56 PM11/21/09
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Just finished creating my first poster with Keynote. I am happy with
the results even though had to spend a lot of time on text reflow and
working around the lack of Endnote support.

However, I am curious about one thing.

The poster is (poster.key) is 12M in size.
When I export to ppt, the size is 1.6M in size (need it for my
colleague who is not a Mac user).
PDF export is expectedly small (1.4M).

Why the big difference in the .key file and the .ppt file ? Is the ppt
exporter more efficient than the native .key file storing functions of
Keynote ? Hard to believe - its usually the other way round.

What does the .key file have that is bloating its size ? Is there a way
to pack it down ?

I have seen similar trends with Keynote presentations.

I am using iWork'09. Snow Leopard 10.6.2 64 bit.

Paul Sture

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Nov 25, 2009, 4:04:09 PM11/25/09
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In article <2009112118585650073-spammersgohere@spaminvalid>,
Geico Caveman <spammers...@spam.invalid> wrote:

Is this article any help?

<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=903462>

Note that with Keynote '09 you can't open the package contents from
Finder, but if you save the file in Keynote '08 format, you can look at
that.

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Paul Sture

AES

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Nov 26, 2009, 12:44:44 PM11/26/09
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In article <paul.nospam-BDFA...@pbook.sture.ch>,
Paul Sture <paul....@sture.ch> wrote:

> > Just finished creating my first poster with Keynote. I am happy with
> > the results even though had to spend a lot of time on text reflow and
> > working around the lack of Endnote support.

Asking the following totally out of curiosity, not intending any sort of
criticism, actual or implied:

Suppose one has Adobe Illustrator and some modest competence in using it
(which is my case -- and I found the learning curve for acquiring basic
skills in Illustrator to be fairly easy).

Are there any good reasons in this situation to prepare posters in
Keynote, rather than Illustrator?

TaliesinSoft

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Nov 26, 2009, 1:23:49 PM11/26/09
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:44:44 -0600, AES wrote (in article
<siegman-080CF9...@news.stanford.edu>):

My question, already asked in a different thread on the same subject but not
(at least to my knowledge) responded to is if one has Keynote one also has
Pages and it seems that Pages is far more appropriate in terms of
capabilities (text formatting comes to mind) than is Keynote.

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James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- talies...@me.com

Paul Sture

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Nov 28, 2009, 3:25:25 PM11/28/09
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In article <siegman-080CF9...@news.stanford.edu>,
AES <sie...@stanford.edu> wrote:

You misquoted me there (I didn't say that bit), but as TaliesinSoft
recommends, I'd use Pages for posters.

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Paul Sture

Geico Caveman

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Dec 2, 2009, 1:50:44 PM12/2/09
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Well, here is hoping that the next version of Keynote will have
something as basic as internal compression of images etc. supported.

Its just pointless to waste diskspace on saving a .key file when you
have a .ppt file that is 1/7th the size.

That said, keynote can do even better - save internally as PDF (which
should be a cinch given how PDF is integrated into the OS) with each
added field as being editable. No loss of resolution at any level of
scaling from the original.

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