Can't drag pdf thumbnails from Preview into Keynote

Question

Level 1

5 points

Can't drag pdf thumbnails from Preview into Keynote

I need to insert individual pages of a multi-page PDF into Keynote. Usually I open the PDF in Preview and drag the thumbnails into slides, and that has consistently worked well. However, after updating to Keynote 8.2 a few days ago that process now throws following error:

"The file <filename>(dragged).pdf could not be opened because there is no such file. The file does not exist."

I would prefer not to have to chop up multi-page PDFs into individual files just to insert them in presentations. I've never hit that error before; is there some different way I can save/name the file so that Keynote will allow me to drag it in?

MacBook Air, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Sep 24, 2018 4:58 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Sep 25, 2018 6:39 AM in response to AWSMusic

Just discovered this issue from reading your post, two things that work:

reinstall a previous version of Keynote from a backup (drag and drop the file into the Applications folder)
Open up Keynote and Prevue side by side then drag and drop individual pages of the PDF from the Thumbnail panel of Preview on to the Navigator panel in Keynote. If the side panel in Preview is not showing, go to: (View> Thumbnails)

Both of these are workarounds will get the project done, rather than waiting for apple to update Keynote.

Reply

Can't drag pdf thumbnails from Preview into Keynote

Similar questions