Using parts of default themes in other ones...

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Using parts of default themes in other ones...

This should be a simple thing, but I can't figure it out so far. I'm using Keynote '08. I want to use the graph paper images that is the image fill background of the default graph paper theme, but I want to use it as a shape fill for a slide made with the plain white theme. If I knew where it was located, that'd help, but even though the graph paper theme uses that image, it won't reveal the 'secret' location of where that file might be.

It's a real pain that there doesn't appear to be a library or collection of standard fill images.

Any help, please?

15.4" MBP 2.5, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 19, 2008 1:36 PM

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Montana

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Apr 19, 2008 3:01 PM in response to OrionOxotnik

Right or control click on the Keynote app icon in your Applications folder. From the pop-up menu select "Show Package Contents." The path you want is Contents/Resources. In Resources you will find the Keynote app's image files as well as a Themes folder in which there is a Shared folder and a LegacyAssets folder. You can copy any of these images to the Desktop. _Do Not_ alter any of these files. These files belong to the Keynote application. Close all of the folders once you've found the image file you're looking for.

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Apr 19, 2008 5:57 PM in response to Montana

I looked through all of the files in the Contents/Resources/Themes/Shared but didn't see the image used as the graph paper background. In Content/Resources/Themes/LegacyAssets there are only pdf files, though a couple of them had the graph paper look to them. It seems like there should be a simple image file though. I even opened up the graph paper .kth files but remain puzzled by where the background image in question lies.

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Montana

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Apr 20, 2008 9:50 AM in response to OrionOxotnik

The graph paper image is from the original Keynote so is probably in LegacyAssets and may be a pdf not an image file. Open it in preview, crop to reduce the size and save as a jpg or png. This may require so experimenting to get the tiling to look right.

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