animating grouped objects for ipad presentation

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animating grouped objects for ipad presentation

I am working on a 134-slide timeline presentation in keynote that I'm designing on my Mac and then transerferring to an iPad. I have read that to avoid problems translating the presentation from a Mac to an iPad to avoid grouping objects that an effect will be applied to. I'm taking that to mean that includes animation? I have several slides where three different blocks of text need to dissolve into the frame at the same time. It makes sense to me to group these instead of applying a separate build to each text block but since reading that advice (found here: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4114), I am concerned about what I should do.

Does anyone have any answers that would either verify this advice or refute it?

Posted on Jun 12, 2013 9:46 AM

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Jun 12, 2013 1:14 PM in response to museumscapes

The information in the discussion you linked to is accurate and correct.

This Apple support page verifies the issues involved in going from Mac to iPad.

My own experience involves testing exhaustively all presentations that are destined for the iPad. This can be very problematic when users disregard the guidlines set out below:

Apple Knowledge Base Mac to iPad presentations

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Jun 12, 2013 1:41 PM in response to Gary Scotland

Yes, I understand that and I've followed all of those guidelines. It just seems that having three times as many builds would be more problematic than grouping text blocks and applying one build. But if you have tested it both ways, then I'll take your word for it.

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Jun 12, 2013 4:07 PM in response to museumscapes

There should be no problems using multiple builds on a single slide.

I regularly use 10 - 20 builds per silde without any issue, thats what builds are for after all.

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