is the a reference manager for keynote?

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is the a reference manager for keynote?

Hi,

I have a question that i think will be a nice challenge for u guys.

I am a teacher and i use a keynote for all my lectures (about 200 of them). I use a lot of pictures in these keynotes. unfortunately i have to name the source of every picture in the following way.

i have to number the pictures and make a list of with all the resources i the last slide. It took me weeks to complete the task.

what happens now is when i want to change the keynote and add a picture in the middle of a presentation i have to renumber all the pictures and change the list in the last slide.

I know that there is a special add on reference manager software for ms word that does this automatically.

please help me. this will save me, and my collegues houres of work we really want to spend on our students.

btw i did save the tekst of the reference in the spotlight- remark of the picture.

Keynote-OTHER

Posted on Sep 6, 2013 4:53 AM

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Answer 1

RutgerT Author

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Sep 7, 2013 2:28 AM in response to Gary Scotland

Hi Gary,

thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it doens't solve my problem. Its not the slides that are numbered, it is the

pictures themselves. (see the attached slide.) when i have 40 pictures and i want to insert a picture in this slide between nr 2 and 3. i have to rename all pictures from 3 onward. Offcourse i can name the picture 2b, but in the course of the years the presentations will become mess.

hopfully you or someone else will a a solution.

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Sep 6, 2013 7:41 AM in response to RutgerT

when i want to change the keynote and add a picture in the middle of a presentation i have to renumber all the pictures and change the list in the last slide.

Doing this is unnecessary for the operation of a presentation, Keynote changes the slide number when new slides are created.

Creating the last slide with an automatically numbered list, with a description for each image is the usual practice. (Inspector > Text > Bullits > Number - from the dropdown list)

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Answer 3

Sep 7, 2013 6:23 AM in response to RutgerT

OK, understand now, its not the images that are numbered, you are adding a text box as a notation for an image on the slide.

The usual method in slide shows, (perhaps not in printed publications) is to use the numbers from 1 to 10 on each slide, so identifying the image of the pink mouse as: 10/3

slide 1

1 green fish

2 black horse

3 purple insect

4 gray bird

slide 10

1 blue dog

2 red cat

3 pink mouse

If for some reason you must use the method in your post then you will need to use different software, Adobe Flash will enter text from a data base, or use Keynote and amend every text box.

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RutgerT Author

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Sep 19, 2013 12:35 AM in response to Gary Scotland

Hi Gary,

your answer helped me, because is will save some editing when i change a picture.

I have done some researche in the mean time and got a little further. but i am not quite there yet.

I use some applescripts right now.

when I select the picture. I go to the inspector where the name of the picture can be selected. when I select the name I have a script "spotlight" that searches for the selected term in finder.

then i select the right picture in the finder window. Then i have a script that shows the spotlight comment.

I copy the source and past it in the presentors comment in the keynote.

When i have done this for every picture, I export i the keynote to pdf including the presenters notes.

This is still a lot of repeating steps but far better then the work i had to put into it before.

I have 2 other helpfull applescripts. one automaticlly inserts the HTTP adress of the picture in spotlight when i download it on my computer, and the second script is one that will extract all presenternotes to evernote so i have a list of all the sources in one document.

I think that it should be possible to combine all applescripts to do a faster job. I just have to find out how.

perhaps with a little help.

I would like to be able to rightclick a picture in a keynote and get the spotlightremark copied in my presenternotes in one step.

Could somebody help me with that?

Kind regards,

Rutger Temmink

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