I use Keynote and Illustrator to build my projects. I can no longer cut and paste from Illustrator. This makes Keynote useless to me. Am I doing something wrong?

This feature using vector graphic files is not working in Keynote 6, it may be included in the scheduled updates during 2014. Either use the previous version, Keynote 5 or save as TIFF or PNG files before placing in Keynote.

You probably appreciate this point but I would just like to emphasize that the work around (i.e., making Tiff or PNG files is a tedious solution). Many of us want to build in parts from an illustrator document. With this strategy, one must make many different tiff or pdf files to do what used to be a simple build task. One of the main assets of the previous versions of Keynote was that it did not require the clunky approaches that Powerpoint does. The new version does. Sorry that I upgraded.

Scott,

No you are not doing anything wrong, I have had issues with copying selected items in the new keynote and pasting to a new file in Adobe Illustrator, they are "blacked out" and rendered useless, I have removed the new Keynote and am now working in the older version Keynote 09. All is back to normal. Side note, Apple has become so fixed on communication software and seems to be ignoring the Graphic Artists,

Colin

With Keynote 6.2, drag and drop items from the Illustrator canvas directly onto a Keynote slide.

Excellent Scott,

I do like the ability to copy elements from Keynote to Illustrator and then exporting to SVG. I will try your way though,

Cheers

Thanks for this workaround. While it ***** to have to outline everything, it at least is a method of getting vector graphics into keynote.

Hopefully this will be addressed at some point. Very frustrating!

While it ***** to have to outline everything, it at least is a method of getting vector graphics into keynote.

Hopefully this will be addressed at some point.

Already sorted in Keynote 6.2.

Vector graphics can be imported into keynote by dragging and dropping an EPS .eps or Illustrator .ai file from the finder directly on to the Keynote slide canvass, or selecting the object in Illustrator and dragging onto the slide canvass.

Thanks Gary. That method also does not take into account different workflows that people have. For instance when working with a large canvas containing many objects, I'm not trying to bring them in em masse -- but individually.

Dragging from Illustrator canvas to Keynote seemed to me to result in a small bitmap graphic; not vectors.

Dragging from Illustrator canvas to Keynote seemed to me to result in a small bitmap graphic; not vectors.

Its a PDF file which is an EPS document which is a vector file. This can be scaled up showing its vector processing ability.