Keynote on iPad seems incompatible with my Desktop Keynote

i do have to chuckle when you complain about lugging around a computer that fits in a routing envelope. How far we've come...

I agree with the frustration of all posting here.

My own is largely centered on groups and animations. That is a lethally bad combination from what I see.

There is a workaround - ugly and labor intensive. But editable. Instead of making builds on one slide with a group, string the group out across slides and transition between the slides. The transitions between slides seems to work ok.

But gosh - I wish Apple would fix this soon. I don't want to have to retrofit a whole lot of slide decks already in my library.

The incompatibilities I've found so far (I do medical presentations to medical professionals with my MacBook and had hoped to use the iPad for this):

1) Fonts not present on the iPad. For example, Symbol, which I use all the time. A listing of approved fonts within the iPad, from Apple, would help.

2) Transitions within a slide that involves grouped objects. On slides I have with a dissolve transition of one, single object, it works great. But if two objects were grouped with a dissolve applied to them, it doesn't work on the iPad. Only solution I see is to re-work the transitions to one-at-a-time. Kludgy but I can do that.

3) Animations. Just don't work. That's an issue.

4) Video, even QT or H264 video, often doesn't work but sometimes does for reasons I can't figure out. Any common theme to video that isn't working?

5) Objects misplaced or improper text-wrap on the iPad version. Funny, I used to associate that with Powerpoint.

Anything I'm missing?

I am finding the same thing. I make a lot of marketing presentations and most of the time I need to demonstrate applications on websites. Some "genius" at apple decided that on playing a keynote presentation and showing movies is needed to output through the VGA port. If you are making a presentation with a projector and want to show a website on Safari you are SOL. That is a painful discovery and is very close to Apple misleading the customers in thinking buying a VGA adaptor (they also told me I needed the keyboard dock to do that, so I bought one of those too) will allow them to output to a VGA monitor and or a projector! There was no disclaimer or fine print to tell you what the limitations are.

Another major disappointment is discovering that if you create a table in Keynote or pages, you are limited to 4 font sizes...Large Medium Small or Tiny. All my tables that have text in them are screwed up totally. Some will never work because even Tiny is too big for the table I use. What were they thinking, underwear sizes?

Add this to the WiFi problem I am having along with the thousands of application issues and what we have here is the iDud (you heard it here first folks!). I had place an order for the IPad G3; I will not only be canceling that but also selling my apple stock because sooner or later the iPad ** will hit the fan!

It would have been nice if Steve Jobs would have put on a news conference and told all the customers what is really going on!

I'm new to this forum, but I'm really annoyed that presentation I've
created on my desktop aren't fully compatible on the ipad. Most
frustrating is that my sound tracks are totally removed, and ipad
keynote make no provision to add any sound to the presentation.
This is so unapple...hope it's not a trend.

@jaxjason I think that whilst the spirit of what you makes sense, it's nto exactly practical. How many iPads are out there? Do people really have a friend with an iPad that they are going to buy Keynote for then ask if they can borrow said iPad from for hours to do testing? Having found no end of annoying lost in translation quirks, I had the cunning idea of rebuilding a donor deck as a kind of theme. To do that, I imported all graphical elements into Aperture, popped them in an album and sunced them across ... only to discover that PNG transparencies are ignored. The breadth and depth of oddities is something that is going to take weeks to unearth.

The best suggestion yet has been an iPad mode & themes for desktop Keynote. But then, the thinness of the app will become alarmingly transparent...

Has anybody had any luck with a soundtrack attached to a keynote presentation working on the iPad?

I am having the same problem and I'm very disappointed that I can't seem to add a music soundtrack my iPad Keynote presentation. I assume this is because the iPad can't run multiple applications at the same time. I wish they had disclosed this very big shortcoming before I bought the program. If you find out how to add sound please let me know.

Has anybody had any luck with a soundtrack attached to a keynote presentation working on the iPad?

Doesn't Apple's FAQ cover that?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4066

There is also the Best Practices note:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4114

I've been following this thread and others about Keynote, because I am also very disappointed I can't use my business presentations.. It's been almost a month: does anyone have a fairly complete list of import problems? It would be useful to father them. Also, here's an idea for someone who wants to make s little money: how sbout a little shareware app that checks your Keynote presentations for potential compatibility issues? Anyone here kno where I might post that idea?

Thanks Tom. This best practices note is what I was hoping for.
Paul

I too am frustrated by the exclusion of a soundtrack option within Keynote, especially since the iPod app CAN play music in the background. Then the thought came to me, "Can I start the soundtrack in the iPod app and then manually switch to Keynote and start a presentation intended to have a music soundtrack?"

The answer is yes, and this can provide a quasi-satisfactory solution to the temporary oversight of excluding audio file support in the current version of iPad Keynote. With a smidgen of practice and building a lead dead space of several seconds into an audio track (or conversely shortening your presentation maybe one slide), the timing of the slideshow and music track can even be loosely synchronized.

Did anyone try creating a Keynote presentation on the iPad then moving to the desktop version? I am betting that corruption is not so much an issue when doing so.

We were heading out today- yesterday was 3G day and the crowds were too much- to buy a wifi iPad, but after reading about all the problems with the iWork apps, which I rely on heavily in business, we will be going to Borders to drink coffee and read paper books instead.

Bill Scott: on a demo before buying: Gasse said it best: '...never trust a demo from a sausage factory..'