Q: List of deleted features in Keynote '13

Last night I was reformatting a presentation that was needed for today and I did not find the "styles" user freindly at all. When I work with styles I expect more than half a dozen "style" called "text" that all look the same in the foramtting section.

I think it is also crucial that those of us who are disappointed make our feelings known by reviewing Keynote 6 in the Mac App Store.

Even if you're avoiding the new version like the plague it's shaping up to be, you can still rate the reviews' helpfulness. I've been finding the 1-star reviews most helpful and the 5-star reviews least helpful.

I've also expressed myself via a blogpost.

http://phyzblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/apple-kills-off-keynote.html

You're absolutely right about the MAS reviews & Ratings. I did so today, for Pages & Keynote (I didn't rate Numbers because I have never really used it that much).

Phyz 2 wrote:

 

 

 

I've also expressed myself via a blogpost.

 

http://phyzblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/apple-kills-off-keynote.html

I really like the post. Thanks for sharing.

Maybe the heydays of this platform are over? I mean, I really invested in iMovie, and they killed it. IOS6 with clear user interface is history. And now this. As a professional, I can not use tools for children.

Is Keynote and Quicktime no longer supporting animations with transparent backgrounds?  I only have the old version, which still supports it (iWork '09) running on an older version of Mac.  At my job, we make animations and I have tons of people writing in raging about our animations no longer being transparent.  I'm attaching links to a few of them, one a transparent quicktime file (bees buzzing around a hive), one a transparent GIF (same) and solid backgrounds of each with a colored background (to make sure it's not defaulting to black).

Is anyone willing or able to check these out on the new version to see if there's a way to make them work?

Thanks in advance,

K

Bees and Honey Clear Quicktime

http://www.presentermedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/beehive_bees_400_c lr_12723.mov

Bees and Honey Clear GIF

http://www.presentermedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/beehive_bees_150_c lr_12723.gif

Bees and Honey Green Background Quicktime

http://www.presentermedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/beehive_bees_12723 _grn.mov

Bees and Honey Blue Background GIF

http://www.presentermedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/beehive_bees_12723 _blue.gif

This is probably a bug and will be fixed (removed), but, if I rename your .gif to .mov, when I put it in Keynote it gives me the "movie" interface and allows me to set it to looped. The PROPER action in this case (and I'm sending feedback, too ) is for it to recognize it's an animated .gif and show the appropriate interface. In other good news, it does have a transparent background.

Your movie with the transparent background gets that transparency removed and it's turned to black. BTW, what's the video format you use for the transparency, .png? When I open it in QuickTime it says H.264, but that could be just what it is after being converted.

This is indeed a sad day. A year and a half ago I was talked into moving to Macbook pro because, as I was encouraged, Apple is better. I spend $3200 on a top of the line MBP Retina. I have been very disappointed by the insipid software offered by Apple. After using Keynote and Pages for a few months, I finally had to move back to MS Word, and would have done the same with Keynote to Powerpoint, buy my Retina MBP will not run Powerpoint properly because of some Retina glich. Waiting and expecting a nice upgrade to solve all my problems, now Apple has completely gone backward and broken iWork even worse then before. I have one and a half years left on my Applecare, and even now I am looking forward to returning to Windows.

Line spacing is no longer infinitely variable and user defined - a VERY limited set of predetermined spacings is now only option.

So they only took 4+ years for this update... I didn't get any thing added from my wish list, like a visual navagator for layers,I'll live, but so many important features missing! Why did option click for shapes/text box sizing disappear? Can't customize toolbar?

We waited so long - for this. Very disappointing!

Just an FYI, you can restore the functionality of images on masters as being able to be interacted with (so placed infront of or behind images on the slide) by defining the images on the master as a placeholder.

How to get back all the features of Pages 4.3

Go to Finder -> Applications.

Check if folder iWork ’09 is present and it has underneath it Numbers.app, Numbers.app and Pages.app

Before starting these apps take note that you will be asked to update them, do not do this.

If you start them you should find that they are version 4.3 for Pages, Numbers 2.3, Numbers 5.3.

So you are almost good to go, al the features that have been deleted in the new version are restored.

To prevent accidentally starting the wrong version it is best to delete the new version, you will keep a version in the app store.

Deleting Keynote, delete following files:

~/Applications/Keynote.app

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Keynote.LSSharedFileList.plist

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Keynote.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Keynote.plist

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Keynote.FDD243F-9456-561F-8CC1-D2A25C47016. plist

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpd/Generated/com.apple.iWork.Keynote.help

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpd/Generated/com.apple.iWork.Keynote.remote.help

~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.iWork.Keynote.savedState

Deleting Numbers, delete following files:

~/Applications/Numbers.app

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Numbers.LSSharedFileList.plist

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Numbers.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Numbers.plist

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Numbers.FDD243F-9456-561F-8CC1-D2A25C47016. plist

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpd/Generated/com.apple.iWork.Numbers.help

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpd/Generated/com.apple.iWork.Numbers.remote.help

~/private/var/folders/2j/v7g55k2n7p74gd9jyxyw3c5r0000gn/C/com.apple.iWork.Number s

~/private/var/folders/2j/v7g55k2n7p74gd9jyxyw3c5r0000gn/T/com.apple.iWork.Number s

~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.iWork.Numbers.savedState

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Numbers

Deleting Pages, delete following files:

~/Applications/Pages.app

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Pages.LSSharedFileList.plist

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Pages.LSSharedFileList.plist.lockfile

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist.lockfile

~/Library/Preference/com.apple.iWork.Pages.FDD243F-9456-561F-8CC1-D2A25C47016.pl ist

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWork.Pages

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpd/Generated/com.apple.iWork.Pages.help

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpd/Generated/com.apple.iWork.Pages.remote.help

~/private/var/folders/2j/v7g55k2n7p74gd9jyxyw3c5r0000gn/C/com.apple.iWork.Pages

~/private/var/folders/2j/v7g55k2n7p74gd9jyxyw3c5r0000gn/T/com.apple.iWork.Pages

~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.iWork.Pages.savedState

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Pages

If you can’t find all these files, the .app files are the ones that matter.

Luke Christian wrote:

 

Does anyone know how to recover colour palettes from the previous version?

 

Does anyone know if they can be recovered, or must I start again from scratch (a VERY time consulting task)?

Why don't you just restore the previous versions of your documents from backup and use them with the previous version of Keynote?  For your sake I hope you at least have time machine active or other copies... if not, now would be a most excellent time to start keeping historical copies of multiple versions for just this kind of scenario. 

I'm not excusing Apple for damaging your files and throwing out valuable information - that's NEVER good customer service and very un-Apple like.  But you still need to protect yourself.

dsjjb wrote:

I have one and a half years left on my Applecare, and even now I am looking forward to returning to Windows.

If Windows is a better fit, just load it on your MacBook today!  Windows runs great on Apple hardware. Personally if you don't need Windows specific features like VBA I'd just run the Mac version of  Office - it's not near as horrid as it was before - or run Windows Office in a Window under VMWare or Parallels.  But if you feel chucking Mac OSX and going back to Windows is the answer you certainly don't need a new computer to do that.

All of my videos with alpha channel transparencies are broken.

I've tried a couple different codecs, and none of them will work.

Love the centered work area, though!