export pdf borderless keynote 6.0

When i do an export to PDF, there are no black borders like you describe.

This is the result of a slide i created and exported to pdf.

Could it be that you have selected to add a border under Print Settings (Layout) which is silently used when doing an export?

I have to switch one setting, 'Page Attributes'... once I do that, I get a whole bunch of different slide/page size options by clicking 'Paper Size' (see attached screen shot).

However, I will say that I only need to export 8.5 x 11 vertical slides for my project.

Ran into the same issue today. Seems to be a shame that the formerly available option "print border around slide" in the Export dialog has been dropped.

Please join me in filing a feature request with Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/keynote.html

I think i can confirm the 1px black border is there in my pdf's. I really had to zoom in to see it, but it's undeniably there.

Although no longer relevant, what i meant with the Print Settings is: Command+P, then Show Details (if not shown already). By default it will show Keynote options, but you can switch to Layout and find out that you can set a border. In my case it had a value of 'None'.

Apparently, they now consider this a 'customized layout' for which you have to use the Print menu.

The shame is that, even if you haven't indicated you want a border, it still adds it when creating a pdf.

This is driving me crazy! I use keynote to create beautiful PDF documents that are often minimalistic in style with white background and this border is ugly for sure.

Does anyone know how we can raise this issue with apple, this is new to me? I am interested purely in the original problem of exporting PDFs, not print.

I ran into the same issue this evening - I often use keynote to create PDF images. You can convert your PDF file to a borderless PDF file by opening a terminal window and typing the following (followed by return) -

pdfcrop input.pdf output.pdf

where input.pdf is your original PDF file and output.pdf is the cropped PDF file the command creates.

I was just playing with PDF export for another issue and I didn't understand this statement

m-o-p wrote:

it does not export the slide in its dimensions but on a printable sheet which requires manual trimming later

Whether I Export to PDF or Print and "Open PDF in Preview", I get a big rectangle. Is the difference that you're Exporting a PDF that's smaller than a full slide? I have a PDF that doesn't have a line around it, but I'm almost positive it's because I'm not doing the exact same thing you are.

Ok, I confirmed what you're seeing. The only way I could get around it was to change the paper size to match the same "actual" size of my presentation when doing a PDF Print. However, that's only a solution if you know how big your image is in "inches" instead of "pixels". OR, you'd have to do the translation yourself.

Quick Fix: Export file to Keynote '09... then open that file... then export to PDF. It's the good old days without the border.