Keynote in a window on the desktop?

David,

I'm at a loss as to how to respond to your question since "run Keynote in a window on the desktop" is a concept I'm not familiar with. I suggest you run Keynote as you normally would and see what happens when you share the screen over Skype.

Jerry

David,

Exporting to PDF will let you display the presentation in Preview, with a window that can be sized to suit your needs.

Jerry

David,

I've never tried the setup you're describing, but you might try enabling the "Allow Expose, Dashboard and others to use screen" option in Preferences > Slideshow, and see if that does the trick. It'll still take up the whole screen, but maybe it'll let it work with Skype's screen sharing. Worth a try anyway.

Shane

I realize I am late to this post, but I just wanted to share that I tried this and it seemed to work very well. Here's what I did:

1. Enable the "Allow Expose, Dashboard and others to use screen" Keynote feature (in Preferences > Slideshow) as described in your post.

2. Use the "Screen sharing" feature in Skype (ver 5). Voila!

It works well. I would be perfect if I could somehow disable the "Presenter Display" of Keynote so that I could put the Keynote presentation on the Skype-shared screen and still see the person on the other end on my other screen (I am using two screens). Any ideas for that trick?

I don't have a second screen hooked up so I can not test this, but go to Keynote Preferences and under Slideshow, make sure that display on Primary Display is selected. Then go to Presenter Display and uncheck

Use alternate display to view presenter information. See if that does it for you.

I tried the above suggestions. Unfortunately, the second screen just goes blank when the presentation is started, so no windows of any processes can be viewed simultaneously with the presentation. Skype still runs in the background, so the 2-way conversation can continue; I just cannot see the person on the other end.

Thanks, though!

Sorry, I thought that was probably a long shot, but about all I could think of.

Another option for you would be to export your Keynote to Quicktime with Manual Advance so you will be able to just click through like you would a Keynote.

It's been a couple of years, any solution yet? I'd like to make the jump from PowerPoint for various reasons, but as I often do my presentations over video, this is a show stopper. Exporting to PDF, QuickTime or other workarounds is not an option, then I'd rather stick to PP.

For Jerrold and the others who don't understand, the feature we are looking for allows you to view the slide show in a separate scalable window, and not the whole screen. With my setup, I could actually live with running the presenter screen in a window, but I have to be able to view another application while presenting.

And if you are clueless, I'd actually appreciate it more if you don't answer...

I had the same thought recently as I was giving a presentation to someone over skype. Why is this fullscreen, I am the only one here!

So I just thought of this crazy workaround and it does work very well.

Here goes:

You need an iOS device - I used an iPad mini and an app on your Mac called reflector. http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/

The Mac and iOS device must be on the same network and that network must allow Airplay

Launch Reflector on your Mac.

Put your presentation in iCloud, open it in Keynote on the iPad or iPhone.

Turn on Airplay from the iOS device to your Mac

You now have the presentation in a window on your Mac

Start Skype, share that Reflector window

Use the iOS device as the control surface for the presentation.

One thing I have noticed in playing with this is that works well to have the presentation rendering load on the iOS device rather than have your Mac do both Skype and the presentation.

Also, the iPad in presentation mode with Airplay shows the speakers UI in the iPad and Airplays the presentation fullscreen - so it actually works very well, you have your concealed control surface and a clean Airplay window on Skype.

This is also handy if you are doing something like demo'ing the UI of an iOS app - you can then just open your app and show it on the iOS device and you are already screen sharing the surface.

I wish I had thought of this the last time i was presenting remotely because I had all the problems you had.

Still would be easier if Keynote did as you suggested an let you present to a window that was not full screen.

Cheers

Keynote in a window on the desktop?

This is achieved using export to HTML or Quicktime: File > Export > HTML File > Export > Quicktime

A video is not the same as a presentation that you pace with your audience - stop, talk, answer questions, move on - or skip slides ahead.

Also, rendering to a video freezes the presentation at that point - what if you are changing it all the time.

This mode you can actually see the list of slides on the iPad and switch slides that way.

But really, it should be possible just to show a presentation in an arbitrary window.

The Export to HTML option worked well for me. You can go through the slides with Safari as if you were playing the slideshow, plus you can adjust the window at whatever size you want.Thanks!

I also have several related feature requests.

I have some presentations in Keynote which I sometimes deliver via Webinars or Web conferencing. The presentations have lots of animations and so exporting to a PDF is not a suitable solution. Also, exporting to a Quicktime Movie is not a great solution either as you can't easily skip between slides.

I had trouble sharing the presentation via the Web conference software as the software didn't pick up the presentation in the full screen mode. Therefore, running the Keynote presentation in a Window (not full screen) is a good solution. Some of the suggestions for changing settings may solve this problem.

In addition, I run multiple displays and it would be nice to be able to run other applications in the other window when Presenting (if the Keynote presentation is in Full Screen Mode). As is, the other displays go completely blank, or have the Keynote Presenter Control Panels. I'd like other apps to be available.

Thanks

it would be nice to be able to run other applications in the other window when Presenting (if the Keynote presentation is in Full Screen Mode).

That is not possible in Keynote.

The work around to play a presentation that can be resized and repositioned use: Export to HTML