Accessing textures in Keynote
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)