I have 2 keynote presentation files open. I select some objects on one slide, apple-C to copy, go over to a blank slide in another file, and apple-V to paste. The item(s) get pasted but are much bigger - they take up way more of the new slide than they did for the old one. What am I missing? Why can't I copy it with the same relative size it used to have?
This may have to do with the fact that the dimensions of each presentation are different. (They may have the same ratio, but pixel size will matter when copying and pasting from one Keynote document to another).
Can you confirm they are the same? You can find out through the document inspector under "Slide Size".
that was it! The destination doc had a weirdly small slide size and I hadn't noticed. Anyway to paste and keep relative size, or else to convert the doc to a higher slide size and have everything scale automatically?
Chances are that small file used to be a PowerPoint file - PowerPoint deals in inches instead of pixels (which blows my mind).
I would first convert the smaller file to a larger resolution - that should keep most of the scaling intact - and then copy and paste. In my opinion you'll probably have to re-polish your presentation once you've changed the resolution as some things will probably be a bit wonky.
> I would first convert the smaller file to a larger resolution - that should keep most of the scaling intact -
excellent, how do I convert the file to a larger resolution and have it scale (most things at least) automatically?
Why do objects get bigger when I copy and paste from one Keynote document to another?
