I use LaTeXiT to place equations in my Keynote presentations. In Keynote 6.0, I can still copy equations from LaTeXiT into Keynote, but I can't copy equations from Keynote back into LaTeXiT. Does anyone know of a workaround?
Keynote 6.0-OTHER, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
I have the same problem with ChemDraw in Keynote. Can paste in, but can no longer copy from Keynote and paste it back into ChemDraw. I presume it's the same problem - the metadata is not being copied properly.
Short answer is no... And others (including me have complained about this).
The behavior of the app is very non-Apple, and if someone at Apple isn't seriously embarassed by Keynote 6.0 Apple has serious problems.
Long answer is yes. You can paste in a PDF from the clipboard, and once inside the document you can click on the image and look at "File Info" in the inspector pane to the right. Using the reported file name, you can open the "Contents" of the .key file and under the media folder you will find the PDF file you pasted. Just open this pdf file in LaTeXiT and the LaTeX code should be available again.
That is technically a workaround (goes both ways), but is still terrible. I am sticking with Keynote 5.3.
I think the new way to manage formulas with Keynote and LaTeXiT is not so bad. I proceed as follows (slightly different and a bit easier than what was suggested by jwleblan)
(1) Fornat formula with LaTeXiT
(2) Drag and drop PDF-Image of formula from LaTexIt pane into finder-directory where I also keep the *.key file.
This creates a PDF file and a standard file name. For important formulas I might want to re-use in several
places I change the name to something meaningful
(3) Drag and drop formula file from finder to keynote slide
For changing formulas,
(4) Delete the formula in keynote slide
(5) Drag and drop PDF file with formula into LaTeXiT pane
(6) Edit and re-format formula in LaTexIT
(7) Proceed as before with (1) -- (3)
I agree that this is just a bit more clumsy than it was with Keynote 5.x, but now my formulas are registered in the file system, which might be helpful for re-use and future prolems with further keynote versions ...
Keynote has a new feature it didn't have before, the ability to "Replace" an image that has already been placed. Have you tried that and does it work any better/differently?
Unfortunately the "Replace image" seems to corrupt the original formula format: After executing the replae command I can only see a few characters of the formula, and they are far too big. I did not manage to re-format this after the replace command.
In contrast to this, dragging the formula pdf-file from the finder onto the keynote slide works fine, and you can also resize the formula as desired.
Ok. Are the new and old formulas different sizes? I'm not very well versed in this particular use case, would you be able to paste the code for two different formulas here so I can play around with the interaction?
You can use a sample key-file I shared in iCloud:
Several slides have formulas originally formatted with LaTeXiT. If you wish to exchange some of them with new formulas, you can create your own formula pdf-files with LaTeXiT, or you can play around with 2 sample fromulas stemming from laTeXiT, which I have also shared via DropBox:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95455379/formula1-from-latexit.pdf
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95455379/formula-2-from-latexit.pdf
One thing that's odd is that there is an option for "Insert MathType Equation..." but I'm assuming that only works if you have MathType installed?
So, here is an image on slide 2 before replacing image:
This is a screenshot after I replaced it with one of the other .pdf's
Is this not what you're seeing?
Insert MathType Equation ... is only visible when MathType is installed. I used that years ago, but LaTeXiT performs much better for my purposes.
I just noticed that the formulas I have provided to you also behave correctly when I am trying it out. I had problems with larger multi-line formulas: these I could not resize manually, they only showed part of the formula or distorted sizes.
BUT: I just found the proper procedure for this:
(1) Use the Image Replace command just as you suggested
(2) Press the Arrange -> Original Size button, this will show the big multi line formula completely, without any distortions. After that you can resize it via Arrange or even by using the mouse.
So this issue is settled for me - thank you!
No problem! It appeared to me that "Replace" was one of those things created specifically for your use case, (to avoid having files lying around OR going into the Keynote package) so it was good to find out that it does fit the bill with certain modifications 🙂
Hi,
I have the same problem with copying back and forth between Keynote and Latex. How exactly did you manage to use "Replace image" to solve your problem? Can you explain what your procedcure is? Many thanks!
I am working quite a lot now with Keynote 6 and LaTeXiT, and find two sorts of work flow convenient:
(1) Put a brand new formula on your slide
(1.1) Format formula with LaTeXiT
(1.2) Drag and drop pdf formula from uper window of LaTeXiT onto some suitable directory in finder.
This creates a pdf file containing the formatted formula
(1.3) Drag and drop the pdf file with formula from finder to Keynote slide
(1.4) Re-position formula with Format --> Arrange ---> Position in Keynote if neccessary
(2) Modify and existing formula on your slide
(2.1) Now you should have a formula pdf file in some directory, as sketched in (1)
(2.2) Drag and drop formula file from finder directory to upper window of LaTeXiT.
(2.3) Modify and re-format formula with LaTeXiT
(2.4) Drag and drop the formula into finder directory
(2.5) Mark old formula on slide
(2.6) Use Format --> Image --> Replace in Keynote, select new formula in file selection menu
(2.7) In several cases, the new formula will not fit properly on the slide.
Then press Format -> Arrange -> Original Size. This should display the picture properly, and you can
re-size it according to your needs
Really needed that Apple do something for this. Really non-Apple. It looks like MsWindows.
Thanks for your reply. Using this method will produce too many files lying around. I'll revert back to Keynote'09.
Just for your information, there is some development on the Latexit side to address this problem: http://pierre.chachatelier.fr/latexit/latexit-beta.php
However, there is still no acceptable solution yet.
Keynote 6.0 seems to break LaTeXiT: workarounds?
