PowerPoint viewer for Mac OS X?

I just now opened the iWork '06 trial disk. The Read Me says what you see below, but what counts for me is that it does not save, print, or export. Since I already have that with the Tonic Point Viewer, I'll just continue to use Tonic Point Viewer. It's really too bad that I cannot print out what was sent to me, though. I wanted to put it into my website. -Lorna

Read Before You Install the iWork ’06 Trial
iWork makes it easy for you to create, present, and publish your work with style. iWork ’06 includes Pages 2, a powerful word processor with incredible graphics capabilities, and Keynote 3, a cinema-quality presentation application with amazing animations. The iWork Trial provides full iWork functionality for 30 days. After 30 days, you can open iWork files, but you cannot save, print, or export.

I just went to the iWork '06 site and saw the video demonstrations of Pages (printed hardcopy) and Keynote (to be seen on computer). They are both very appealing, and Keynote especially so, since the work done for the monitor can be converted to hard copy if necessary.

Questions not answered on the iWork site:

Can Keynote make a digital file that can be emailed to someone, to be viewed on his/her monitor? If so, then...

If I make a Keynote presentation and send to people, would the PC users be able to see it? (A large number of my friends do use PCs.) I ask because I with my OS Tiger cannot see Power Point presentations that they send to me. Does Keynote have a free downloadable Viewer/Reader the way PP does? If so, then that Viewer could be sent along with the file to be seen on it.

I have never used PowerPoint but am presuming the Keynote is the superior application. 🙂

Lorna in Southern California

It's really
too bad that I cannot print out what was sent to

me,

though. I wanted to put it into my website.

Lorna...

If all else fails you can always do a screen capture
of the slide.... Apple-shift-4 and then draw an
outline of what you want to capture....or hit the
space bar to capture the whole window.

Yes, this is true, James, but then I would have that screen shot, but I would not be able to grab it and place it into my website. 8-( -Lorna

I just read this on Wikipedia. It's helpful because it gives a broad global idea of where iWorks is relative to the other Apple programs. Note what it says about the serial numbers being required to run. Here it is:
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iWork
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

iWork is a suite of applications created by Apple Computer, containing a word processing and layout application (Pages), and a presentation package (Keynote).

Although iWork was originally rumored to be an update or replacement for Apple's entry-level application suite AppleWorks, Apple is currently billing it as "building a successor to AppleWorks", but it does not replicate the functionality of AppleWorks' spreadsheet, database, and drawing tools.

Likewise, it does not compete directly with the Mac version of Microsoft Office, but instead offers tools with a different focus (presentation, rather than analysis) at a lower price. It is designed to integrate with existing applications from Apple's iLife Suite.

Although iLife comes free on every Mac, iWork is to be bought separately. There is a free 30 day trial for iWork on every Mac, and also if customers chose to upgrade to a newer version of iLife, a free trial of the newest iWork comes free as well.

It is Apple's first consumer product to require a serial number in order to run.[citation needed] AppleCare states that there is no master key [citation needed], and that they cannot help users with serial number problems beyond the typical data entry tips, such as avoiding

Yes, you would. When you take a screenshot, it saves
the file to your hard drive ready to use for whatever
purpose you desire.

Kyn, I'm thinking not. I earlier on did what you said above and pasted into an Appleworks word processing paper; I was able to paste the IMAGE in, but I was not able to manipulate the text or take away the colored background.

Just now I took a screen shot of your reply (above), and indeed, I was able to save it and paste into a page of my blog, but it landed as an image, not as editable words. And the background remained light blue, of course.

That's ok. Nothin's perfeck. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Lorna in Southern California

Just like with PowerPoint, if you send a file to
someone, they've got to have PowerPoint or a
PowerPoint viewer in order to see it. With Keynote,
though, you have options in that you can export as
pdf's, QuickTime movies, a series of images and
more.

Kyn, my eyeballs perked up at that QuickTime part. So... am I correct in thinking that I could have a presentation made with Keynote '06 sitting on my Desktop. Then I click onto QuickTime (I don't have QuickTime PRO) and go to File. Then, at File, what sub-menu option do I select to copy what I made in Keynote to be changed into a QuickTime movie?

Is it the same as when converting an .Mp3 song file into a .mov file? That is to say: Click File, Select Open. Select the created file in question. Then click Export. Then proceed as if working on the .Mp3 file? (I can't reiterate it because I have to be able to SEE it to remember it.....)

And then I could send that .mov file to people? And after people receive that .mov file in email, they will be able to click onto the .mov file and SEE the Keynote presentation that was created?

Of if not that way, then how?
Lorna in Southern California

Varkgirl wrote:
I think that's what he meant.



.......... Lorna says .............................................
But that's not what he wrote. He wrote that I could do what I wanted to do with it. What I earlier mentioned included editing.

Lorna in Southern California

Yeah, since you can't place a PowerPoint document in
your website, I was assuming that when you said "but
I would not be able to grab it and place it into my
website." you were referring to the resulting image.
You CAN put the image into your website, but not
editable text.

My apologies!

(((Kyn))) No apology required 🙂 I was earlier on (no longer) considering putting that PowerPoint someone sent me into my website. This whole dialogue about Keypoint '06 is at a more distant hypothetical level, since I do not (yet) have Keypoint '06. I think that the two issues sort of blended together: Wanting to put Lori's PowerPoint presentation into my website, and me wondering whether I could change Keypoint presentations into a file that could be sent via email and viewed by the recipient on his/her screen.

Actually and in fact, I did that experiment with my friend's PowerPoint present, not with Keypoint!!!

Bottomest line, though: Keypoint and Page, both in iWork '06, seem like very good applications, and at $80, they are not a bad purchase.

I might wait until Christmas time and make a Christmas newsletter with Page. I would make a digital newsletter if not for the fact that very few people (few of my friends) would be able to SEE it, since they all have PCs. UNLESS I discover that I can do a creditable job of converting to a QuickTime .mov file.

Oh heck I might just buy it and do it and not worry about a 30 day deadline hanging over my sorry head.

Lorna in Southern California