Multi-page PDF into Keynote

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Multi-page PDF into Keynote

Can anyone verify that Keynote can/cannot import a multi-page PDF file as separate slides? And if not, does anyone have any experience with Automator or Apple Script in writing a script to do this? There must be a way...

Thanks, Mark

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jun 23, 2011 10:12 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 21, 2011 4:45 PM in response to mrfseattle

I need to export large 24-page PDF files to keynote so that I can share them over iWork with my clients and boss. Needless to say, cutting and pasting 24 pages one by one is not ideal.

I found this free shareware program that ROCKS...converts a multi-page PDF file into a keynote file.

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/freesoftware/pdftokeynote.html

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Answer 2

Jun 24, 2011 7:16 AM in response to mrfseattle

No, Keynote can not automatically take a multi-page .pdf and add each page as a slide. You can open the .pdf and copy and paste into Keynote. The easier solution, as you mentioned, is Automator.

Open a new Automator Window and add the following Actions

Get Specified Finder Item (find the .pdf file you want to extract)
Render PDF Pages as Images (will change each page to an image)
Rename Finder Items (select to make sequential so the slides will be in order)
Move Finder Items (select a folder where you want the new images to go to)

After you have done this, you can drag and drop the images into the Thumbnail Viewer on the left side of the Keynote document and each image will be added as a separate slide.

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