Keynote iOS 7 Portrait Orientation

Unfortunately, Keynote for iPad has never worked in Portrait mode, the latest version included.

The only solution I came up with earlier is to rotate all elements in your slides 90 degrees. Then, lock the general screen rotation on your iPad. Now, you can set your iPad to portrait, while Keynote still shows them in landscape. But that's the creative way.

Open inspector window, click 'Document Inspector' (first tab on left), click 'Slide Size' drop-down menu, select 'Custom slide size', adjust accordingly, and that should do it.

We're discussing the iOS version here...

I would like to resurface this discuss with the context of the latest iWorks update to iOS.

Like some of you, I commonly use iOS Keynote to prototype mobile app concepts for iPhone 5, and I have to build my presentations sideways to make the presentation feel like it's in portrait mode. Quite annoying. I was really excited for the latest iWorks update because it said that Keynote for iOS added "New portrait layout options in presenter display".

I didn't know if this meant they added portrait mode within presenter display while remote connecting to a second screen. Or does this mean new portrait viewing mode while presenting (which is what we really want).

Your insite would be valuable.

Thanks for the response. I also searched through every menu and couldn't find an answer.

Well, we've all been waiting for a legitimage prototyping software, where could it be???? 😕

Nope. As of May 1st, 2014, it won't do this.

Another app, however, will. It's called Presentation Link. The only problem with it is it requires you author on the iPad, whereas Keynote allows you to author on your Mac and then send to iPad.

I am not affiliated in any way with this company. Just forwarding what I found.

It's June 10, 2014 now.

I have seen 1 session talking about prototyping in WWDC 2014 videos mentioned that "Launch the same presentation on the keynote on the ipod touch to get the sense of how it feels".

And the demonstration video looks like they get the prototype slide in portrait layout displayed correctly on an ipod touch.

Does anyone know how to acheive that?

(that's session 223, prototyping: fake it till you make it)

Maybe it's coming.

How awesome would it be if you could create a presentation in Keynote and then publish it to the iTunes Store so customers and employees could download it as an app to their iPad?

I had a client ask me about creating their product catalog for iPad as an app. I could easily create it in Keynote, with interactive menus, but every end user would need Keynote to view it and they would be able to edit it.

Thanks for the heads up

I also wanted to know how the Apple guys did it in their wwdc example:

I downloaded the session sample files from http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/toastmodern_sample (as indidcated on the last screen in the presentation).

The "trick":

Their workaround was: Rotate the content and put it on 1136x640 landscape slides.

Unfortunately, it is a lot of work to design the screens in portrait and then rotate to another slide format. And it also has some problems with font sizes etc.

Really bad that keynote for iOS does not support portrait slides :-(

It got pretty old rotating everything manually, so I made a script to automatically do it. It's written using the new javascript scripting stuff so you'll need Yosemite to get it to work. Here it is:

https://gist.github.com/ericallam/a5cd76651c327b116a6e

Open the Script Editor and copy and paste that code into a new Javascript script. Then Export it as an application. You can then drag and drop keynote documents on the exported application and it will automatically resize the keynote document into landscape, and rotate and resize everything correctly. Then just ship the Keynote document over to Keynote for iPhone and it should work. I've used this script for the last couple of weeks, on multiple different prototypes, so it should hopefully work for your prototypes also. Let me know if you run into anything that needs to be fixed.

Unfortunately your javascript does not work on my keynote presentation, maybe because I have a chart in it which does not have the rotation option - nice try though.

I too was fascinated how an app can be prototyped with Keynote from that WWDC14 talk... So I bought Keynote for Mac and Keynote for iPhone... waste of money 😠