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User profile for user: Vyn Ross
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Changing the default font in Keynote '09

Can anyone please tell me how to change the default font in Keynote '09 masterslides to the one of my choice? I can't seem to do it by following the suggestions in Help.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 28, 2009 7:29 AM

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User profile for user: Brian Peat
Brian Peat
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Posted on Dec 16, 2010 1:18 PM

The manual way to do this is to visit each master slide and change the title and body fonts. Then make a regular text box and change the font on that, then with that text box selected, choose Advanced from the format menu and choose Define Text for all Masters.

What this won't change is text you can't see, like slide numbers, or chart and table text. You'll have to also visit each of those and use the advanced menu to lock in the text for those things.

The faster but more technical way to do it is crack open the .key or .kth file and edit the xml file inside to globally change every instance of a font with another one. It's not something I've got time to write about here, but it DOES do the job if you need a fully global change.
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User profile for user: Brian Peat
Brian Peat
User level: Level 6
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Dec 16, 2010 1:18 PM in response to Vyn Ross

The manual way to do this is to visit each master slide and change the title and body fonts. Then make a regular text box and change the font on that, then with that text box selected, choose Advanced from the format menu and choose Define Text for all Masters.

What this won't change is text you can't see, like slide numbers, or chart and table text. You'll have to also visit each of those and use the advanced menu to lock in the text for those things.

The faster but more technical way to do it is crack open the .key or .kth file and edit the xml file inside to globally change every instance of a font with another one. It's not something I've got time to write about here, but it DOES do the job if you need a fully global change.
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User profile for user: KOENIG Yvan
KOENIG Yvan
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Dec 16, 2010 1:18 PM in response to Vyn Ross

In a given theme, the default fonts are defined in a file whose complete pathname resemble to this one: 


Macintosh HD:Applications:iWork '09:Keynote.app:Contents:Resources:
Themes:Black_8x6.kth:Contents:Resources:French.lproj:fontsAndText.strings


Here is the path for the theme named "Black_8x6.kth" in its French version.

The file contents is:

"STYLE Series2" = "Series_2";
"STYLE_None" = "Aucun";
"STYLE Series5" = "Series_5";
"STYLE Series3" = "Series_3";
"FONT_LucidaGrande" = "LucidaGrande";
"FONT_Helvetica" = "Helvetica";
"STYLE_Free Form" = "Format libre";
"STYLE Series1" = "Series_1";
"FONT_GillSans" = "GillSans";
"STYLE_Normal" = "Normal";
"STYLE Series0" = "Series_0";
"FONT_MarkerFelt-Thin" = "MarkerFelt-Thin";
"STYLE Series4" = "Series_4";

If you edit the underlined font names you will change the default fonts accordingly.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 5 mai 2009 22:07:28)
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Changing the default font in Keynote '09

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