Portrait AND Landscape in same show?

why would you want to do this? The screen is always the same shape, it is what it is. If you use a tall screen, putting a wide slide on it would simply shrink the slide. Same with a wide screen and a tall slide.

Why not just make the slides you want vertical BLACK, and stick your stuff on them, leaving the sides of the slide empty so the image or object looks tall.

The problem is, screen and print are TOTALLY different. In print, you can simply turn your document and look at it wide instead of tall.

On a screen though, which is wide, when you hit a tall slide, it still can't be any taller than the wide slides, so it gets shrunk. The ONLY benefit I can see is if you're going to print your slides, otherwise, you're doing nothing more than shrinking the tall slides anyway when you put them on the screen. If the projector is 1024x768 pixels...putting a tall image on there means it can STILL only be 768 pixels tall...so you even if Keynote let you make tall slides together with wide slides, it would shrink them till they're no different than a wide slide.

I hope that makes sense.

Good morning Barbara

The problem with what you are asking is that Keynote is not designed to do what you want it to do. I believe you are wanting to use it as both a presentation program, where all your stuff is formatted for on screen, and you also want to have everything formatted for the best possible printing.

The truth is you cannot. Keynote is devoted to presenting ideas on screen. To that end it has certain limitations, one of which is the inability to have various sized slides because, frankly, it is only going to be used to display items on the same screen throughout the presentation.

Even when printing your items out, to get the very best results you will have to use two programs to do what you want. One program organized for printing, and one for presentations.

You can print those items from a layout program, like Pages or Word, and you can print the rest of the slides from Keynote. You just can't use Keynote to do both.

Perhaps, in the future, there will be a way to have specially designated 'hidden' slides which have varying widths (but not height) so the printing is more streamlined, but right now you cannot. Print them separately, shuffle them together for handouts (or for photocopying using ltr-r and legal paper)

If you want to see additions to the way Keynote behaves, request improvements using the feedback link at the head of this forum. If enough people ask for it, there is a higher chance of it being implemented in the next version of Keynote.

Gerry

Well,

one could turn the screen or projector, too 😉

I'm curious as to what you are seeing and how you may be coming about those results. You're not standing the projector on it's side, are you? 🙂 Just kidding...

If you have some time, create a white box of a specific size on a green background (not an image as there may be other resizing going on with images) that will expand across the screen as IF it was a picture. In other words, create a rectangular shape of a certain known pixel dimension, then make sure when you're doing the comparison that these dimensions are adhered to.

If there IS some specific instance where this is beneficial, I'm sure people would want to know!

Barbara,

here's the explanation why you couldn't post the Keynote file:

Both Keynote and Pages files are in fact bundles, directories that contain all files belonging to a Keynote or Pages document (i.e. images, videos, sounds, and a zipped xml file). Right-click (ctrl-click) on a Keynote "file" and choose "Show Package Contents" from the contextual menu.

To exchange Keynote or Pages files you should choose from the contextual menu "Create Archive of xyz".

Now, what happens when you project those? What about when you view them on your monitor?

I don't think you're going to achieve portrait and landscape in the same show, but I'm really interested in what you're seeing when you project because by looking at these files on my monitor (which is just like the array a projector uses to display, the green area to the right and left don't reach as far as with the landscape version.

Forgive me for beating a dead horse everyone, and you if I am still not understanding this, Barbara.

If you don't want the black rectangle to show on the projection screen, an you use the Blank White theme? You only have to use this for those slides which have the taller images.

Personally, if showing the taller images was more important, and you wanted to give as much detail as possible, I would place an image the same width as the slide and place it so it is just at the bottom of the slide and have it scroll upwards using one of the build-ins.

(hint: change the zom of the slide to 50% and you will see areas to the right and bottom of the slide that you can place items in)

The only thing is that you cannot have it scroll off the slide without a little bit more work.

You can also have the image pause at cerrtain points to clarify details in the placed object (image or graph) but that could take a bit more work.

I think (and please don't take offence at this) you may be working too hard on this and not considering alternative methods for getting your information across to the audience...

What is the goal of the presentation, in the most basic terms, the topic and the desired result. We've only heard the problems you are having with a very specific point, but I am sure there will be better ways of doing what you want that we can help you with.

Gerry