Hyperlinking not supported in mobile version of Keynote

I thought it wouldn't be as fast either. We are doing some interactive presentations that are pretty complex hyperlinking and involve about 280 images and 8 videos. After the Keynote and PowerPoint files were converted it took me about 3 hours to import the files and then program all the links.

Micajah

Please, Apple, make this work. I am going on a speaking tour promoting top-selling apps that have people buying iPads just to use them. I want to make my presentations 100% on an iPad, but I can't do this simple thing: make a slide link to a video page in my presentation, and then come back to that page. Please, please, enable hyperlinking in keynote iPad presentations immediately! This is insane.

moholy wrote:

Please, please, enable hyperlinking in keynote iPad presentations immediately! This is insane.

Well, they've not shown any sign of listening for the last 18 months in spite of many user comments so I'm guess Apple have their reasons for not wanting to support it.

Without the hyperlinks all of my presentations are rendered useless. I've not made a single linear presentation for

years as all mine have optional sections or links dependant on the flow of the presentation. As it stands it's just not feasible to use the iPad version of Keynote as it's just not flexible enough.

Likewise, the other iWork apps are missing fundamental features which means it's not possible to share a document from the desktop for work on the iPad as when it's exported back to the desktop version key features have been stripped out and formatting broken. Unfortunately, in spite of all the claims of compatibility between the iWork desktop apps and their mobile counterparts that's just not true. Importing documents from the desktop is frequently met with 'this or that is not supported and has been ignored' rendering the mobile version an orphan with features missing.

The app Presentation Link that recently came out works pretty well - it's just missing the proper back-links for video, video scrubbing, and video thubnails from within the file, rather than first frame - works fine for image-based presentations. You can export your Keynote as an image sequence and then add hyperlinks:

http://www.presentation-link.com/

We ended up using Presenation Link and it did the job. It's basically what Keynote on the iPad should be. However there were some limitations but over all it's a great app.

You can import PDFs pretty easily. You then have the option to edit the file by adding or deleting slides. Making buttons and hyperlinks is pretty easy. Once you get the hang of it you can do this pretty fast. Then you can export the presentation to share on other iPads. It creates a zip file with the PDF and an xml file that when imported the app automatically reads. Only seemed to work on an iPad. If you wanetd to do the presentation on a computer it would not work which was an annoying limitation. There are few limitations.

For example you could make a master link which is great! You make one link and it works through out the entire presentation. The problem is that it must stay on every page. There is no option to not use the master link if the page you are on does not need it. If you delete it off any of the pages it deletes them all. Also the fact that you can't import a PDF with links you already made was pretty annoying too. Next and Previous slide actions would of been really nice too. I had to make a these buttons manually. Very time consuming.

Any way over all it's a great alternative to Keynote which really dropped the ball when they excluded the use of hyperlinks. Oh and Presentation Link is cheaper too!

Finally they listened!

The release notes for v1.5 say: "support for slide to slide hyperlinks"

Downloading it now 🙂

Tested it last night, it's working fine now. Such a long wait for a basic feature but at long last I can actually use Keynote for mobile presentations!

Yes it's working. I built a test with pngs and movies and did the hyperlinking and it all transfered ok. However, does anyone know how to create a playback only version? If you touch the screen with two fingers (like if you wanted to pinch to enlarge) it escapes out of playback mode to edit mode.. I'm going to try saving the original with Hyperlinking playback only and require a password to exit to see if that works.

Did you find an answer for this? Want to send a presentation to my trainers but only want them to have play function and not be able to edit.

Wrong information whoops!

Keynote always lets you quit from presentations. I had the same problem so I teamed up with a programmer to create an app for this use case. Link Viewer is view-only and has no controls that might pop up. It works with PDFs. Check it out if you are interested?