iWork 06 - Keynote

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The textures seem to be built in to each theme, but you can use an image fill and use that instead - just use some photos of wood grain that you already have.

It would be possible to make a duplicate theme and edit the colours of the built in textures, but this would get quite complicated.

Ian

You can also copy and paste charts from one file to another, so even though the theme you like doesn't have the woodgrain, you can get it into the theme that way.

Also, if you go to the fill area of the inspector and click on one of the bars in your chart (on the slide) then look in the fill area again, you'll see a color well. Click that and change the color, it lets you tint the wood to whatever color you want.

Yes, this is a bit confusing. You'd think that Keynote would allow you to select a woodgrain texture for 3D charts no matter what theme you're working in. I suppose they're protecting us from doing something terribly ugly.

FYI: "Parchment" and "Leather Book" both use the wood grain 3D charts. Create your chart in one of these themes, then transplant it into the project of your choice.

I'm posting the following message in a couple of places since I think there are a few of us wondering about this:

Here's a -relatively- quick way to access all those 3D charts textures (wood, metal, etc) mentioned in the Keynote documentation, without creating a new theme each time:
- Select the Keynote application icon in the Finder.
- Right-click (or control-click) and select "Show Package Contents".
- Navigate to "contents/ressources/themes".
- you now have a list of every theme available in Keynote
- Right-click (or control-click) on a theme and select "Show Package Contents".
- Find the textures (tiff files) and COPY them to a folder on your desktop (I named mine "Keynote Textures").
- Do this with all the remaining themes.

You'll end up with with a folder containing every texture (or image) available in Keynote, so the next time you're editing a 3D chart (or anything else needing a fill), simply select "image fill" from the Inspector and choose one of the textures from this folder. If you use column view in the dialog box you'll even get a nice preview. IMPORTANT: be sure to COPY the files and NOT MOVE them as this would either break the application or the themes.

Hope this helps everyone.

Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

You'll end up with with a folder containing every texture
(or image) available in Keynote,

Another alternative is to drag each of texture folders to the iPhoto albums pane (a separate album will be created for each folder). You can then access them directly from the Media button in the tool bar.